Peter Shilton's Handball Maradona Peter Shilton's Handball Maradona Peter Shilton's Handball Maradona (referred to in title as Peter Shilton's Football) is a multiplatform traditional soccer/football simulation video game that was released in 1986 for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. The game allows players to control legendary goalkeeper Peter Shilton. The game's title refers to the "hand of God" goal scored by Diego Maradona against England at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. During the course of the game, sixteen teams, taken from what was then the top-flight of English football, are available for the player to play against, while trying to improve
The hand of God the goal. After the first half, the game was still tied. Maradona was beginning to unbalance the match, and when the sixth minute of the second half came, one of the most controversial moves in the history of the World Cup came: Maradona took the ball out of the box and with his left leg passed it to his teammate Jorge Valdano, who tried to take it among several English defenders, but the ball was intercepted and thrown back and forth, in his eagerness to clear, by defender Steve Hodge. Because of the inertia of the play, Maradona would have