Haunted by the Hand of God...

Daily MailNovember 18, 2008

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FOR a few short, emotional minutes yesterday, Terry Butcher was transported back in time from a plush suite at Cameron House Hotel on rain-lashed Loch Lomondside to a functional anteroom deep inside the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City in 1986.

Almost as if he could see himself sitting there, a disconsolate figure awaiting a drugs test -- nursing a sense of despair at his country's World Cup quarter-final exit to Argentina and an even deeper sense of grievance over the Hand of God.

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Haunted by the Hand of God...

Diego Maradona burst into the room at that point and, without a hint of remorse, claimed via sign language that he had beaten Peter Shilton with a header before conjuring up the greatest goal ever scored.

One hour after full-time, with his deception still being replayed on TV screens around the world, Maradona declined an opportunity t...

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