# Diego Maradona: Football God, Cheat & the Greatest Party Ever Thrown in a Prison Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/bloomin-legends-with-johnny-vaughan-gavin-woods-7236779/diego-maradona-football-god-cheat-the-greatest-party-ever-thrown-in-a-prison Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/bloomin-legends-with-johnny-vaughan-gavin-woods-7236779/diego-maradona-football-god-cheat-the-greatest-party-ever-thrown-in-a-prison.md Podcast: [Bloomin' Legends with Johnny Vaughan & Gavin Woods](https://stenobird.com/podcast/bloomin-legends-with-johnny-vaughan-gavin-woods-7236779) Published: 2026-07-01T02:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://bloomin-legends.captivate.fm Audio file: https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/36853072-3e9a-45f0-a244-1e35e707b238.mp3?aw_0_1st.showid=14abdfd8-4e8f-4e93-b149-a53f40686052&aw_0_1st.episodeid=36853072-3e9a-45f0-a244-1e35e707b238 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bloomin-legends-with-johnny-vaughan-gavin-woods-7236779/episodes/diego-maradona-football-god-cheat-the-greatest-party-ever-thrown-in-a-prison Duration seconds: 2621 ## Resource He grew up so poor his mum pretended she wasn't hungry so her kids could eat. By 15, he was playing professional football. By his mid-20s, he was the best player on earth, the most fouled man in the sport, and partying every single night in Naples with the mafia. He also threatened to shoot Liam and Noel Gallagher. In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods take on Diego Armando Maradona, the dirt-poor kid from Buenos Aires who became the greatest footballer the world has ever seen, the most famous cheat in sporting history, and possibly the only man alive who could out-party Pablo Escobar. From breaking world transfer records twice, to brawling in front of the King of Spain, to scoring the greatest and most controversial World Cup goals in the same match, Maradona lived a life so outrageous it barely sounds real. What You'll Hear in This Episode: โšฝ Pro at 15 โ€“ How a muscular kid from a family so poor his mum pretended she wasn't hungry got scouted at eight and was playing professional football by fifteen ๐Ÿคš The Hand of God โ€“ The most infamous moment in World Cup history, and why no one blames Shilton ๐ŸŽ‰ Escobar's prison party โ€“ How Maradona ended up playing football with Pablo Escobar in a Colombian jail, and why he called it "the best party of his entire life" ๐ŸŽธ "I will shoot you" โ€“ The night Liam and Noel Gallagher met Maradona in Argentina and were told if they touched any of his women, he'd have them killed ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น The Naples years โ€“ Cocaine, the Camorra, partying every single night, and somehow still becoming the top scorer in Napoli's history If you love football stories, larger-than-life characters, sporting legends and unbelievable true stories, this episode of Bloomin' Legends is for you. Got a legend you want us to cover? ๐Ÿ“ฉ Send it to: bloominlegโ€ฆ ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bloomin-legends-with-johnny-vaughan-gavin-woods-7236779/episodes/diego-maradona-football-god-cheat-the-greatest-party-ever-thrown-in-a-prison/transcription-requests` โ€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/bloomin-legends-with-johnny-vaughan-gavin-woods-7236779/diego-maradona-football-god-cheat-the-greatest-party-ever-thrown-in-a-prison.md` โ€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.