How Diego Maradona took Mexico by storm

Crowds are flocking through the gates at Dorados to see the legend in action, as he continues to leave his unique mark in Mexican football

It is a story that if one dared to put it down on paper as fiction, any editor worth his salt would have no choice but to strike it down as far too outlandish.

On one side the great Diego Maradona, hero of Argentina's 1986 World Cup win but a man who for years was tormented by inner demons, typified by his long, desperate battle against cocaine addiction. On the other Dorados, an obscure second division Mexican club which, as fate would have it, calls home the state of Sinaloa – the centre of the country's cocaine trafficking plague and birthplace of the…