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 so, since once the match was over it could not be changed. In early 2008, "The Sun" newspaper published an article in which they implied that Maradona, during a visit to England, had apologized for what is described as "the infamous goal of The Hand of God". The newspaper, first of all, cites the phrase in this form:but later repeats the same quotation by adding the word "apologize" which did not appear in the first one, despite being the same sentence:And complete the idea:Before Maradona denied the fact, several world media outlets raised the news, creating controversy in public opinion.