'Hand of God' football set to be sold at auction for £2.5-3m
 

The ball used by Diego Maradona to score two of the most famous goals in football history is to go on auction.

The match ball used in the famous 1986 World Cup quarter final between England and Argentina carries an estimated price of £2.5m to £3m.

It is being sold by Ali Bin Nasser, the Tunisian referee who allowed Maradona's "Hand of God" goal during the game.

Bin Nasser said: "This ball is part of football history - it is the right time to be sharing it with the world."

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I think I have a different definition of "sharing," to Mr. Nasser.

i like to share items too if it nets me 3 million :laugh:

Ever the altruist, bots :laugh:

I've always been surprised that Argentina weren't disqualified from the tournament after the blatant cheating displayed with that goal.

And the Referee should've clearly been investigated by FIFA at the time.

I’d like to buy it and burn it .

Thierry Henry did the same to us to knock us out of the World Cup and that was only in 2010 :oh:

God I remember that one.:laugh:

Seriously though that should've also been investigated.

There was more of chance of god coming on as a sub than you winning the the World Cup.

Doesn't matter does it? we would have progressed to the finals if that goal had been disallowed

It was pre VAR but the cynic in me thinks that they just wanted the "bigger" team through anyway

I was joking

Some cooked up atab will buy it.

No offence intended here but I agree with you.

They saw France as the bigger team and cheated them through.

As someone that supports Birmingham City, I've seen us fall foul to those kinds of tricks by the Referees more times than I can count.

So basically I do have sympathy for what happened to ROI that year.

the world loved watching Maradona whereas england were dull and everybody hated them :laugh:

The only people that ever complained about the incident were english :laugh: