Ali Bin Nasser Ali Bin Nasser Ali Bin Nasser (also spelled Ali Bennaceur, ; born 2 March 1944) is a former Tunisian football referee. Nasser refereed the match between Argentina and England in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, where the "Hand of God" and the "Goal of the Century" were scored by Argentine captain Diego Maradona to win the match. For the "Hand of God" goal, Maradona punched the ball into the net, however, Bin Nasser stated that he did not see this and thought that Maradona had headed the ball. Both Bin Nasser and his Bulgarian assistant linesman Bogdan Dochev blamed each
The writing hand The writing hand The writing hand is a mechanical automaton created by Friedrich von Knauss in 1764. A clockwork mechanism moves a hand which dips a pen into an inkstand and writes the phrase ""Huic Domui Deus / Nec metas rerum / Nec tempora ponat"" ("May God not impose ends or deadlines on this house") on a small card. On the silver-coating of the mechanism are the words ""Pro patria"". The instrument was dedicated by von Knauss to the House of Lorraine, which ruled at that time in Tuscany. The object is housed in Room 10 of the Museo Galileo