The hand of God after the British players' demands, he sought the advice of his second standard bearer, who ratified the goal. Mexican photographer Alejandro Ojeda Carbajal immortalized this moment in a photograph in which the blow is clearly seen with his hand. In his biography, Maradona later said: In 2005, 19 years after the controversial goal, Maradona confessed, on the programme "La Noche del 10", that the goal was actually scored with his hand. A fact that generated diverse opinions throughout the world. While some supported him for telling the truth and admitting his guilt, others criticised him for the delay in doing
Hand of God (art) which is also seen in many Western works from about 1000 onwards. The earliest surviving icon of the Virgin Mary, of about 600 from Saint Catherine's Monastery, has an often overlooked hand, suggesting to Robin Cormack that the emphasis of the subject is on the Incarnation rather than a simple Virgin and Child. Another of the very few major Eastern works showing the Virgin from before the Byzantine iconoclasm, an apse mosaic (lost in 1922) from Nicaea, also shows the hand above a standing Virgin. Few similar uses of the hand are seen in later Virgins, though the iconographically adventurous