Shooting star lost sight of goal

DIEGO MARADONA rose from the slums of Buenos Aires to find fame on the football pitch — reaching meteoric heights with his “Hand of God” goal against England in the summer of 1986.

Both his strikes for Argentina in that World Cup quarter-final victory at the Aztec Stadium, Mexico City, are arguably the most famous goals in the history of the competition but for contrasting reasons.

The game was teeming with enough controversy before the whistle blew it was the first time the two nations had met since the end of the Falklands War but it paled into insignificance shortly into the second half.