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Reid all about it!

Clik The Mouse

Monday, October 17th, 2022

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 The Hand of God ball
is up for grabs!
To be auctioned
to the highest bidder.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 And because he is no longer with us
it won’t go to the maximal fibber!
(God bless his memory
for Diego is footballing deity)

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 I hear a forensics team
maybe on hand –
fingerprints will be a match for “El Diez”
but none from Shilts, still trying to find his stilts
and because he had him on toast:
there’ll be none from Peter Reid –
who’s still trying to catch a ghost!

Notes

The ball from the 1986 World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and England, in which Maradona scored six minutes into the second half by sneakily punching the ball over England goalkeeper Peter Shilton into the net, a goal he said afterwards had been helped by the “hand of god”.

Four minutes later he dribbled from his own half past a number of England players to score a sublime second that regularly tops polls as the greatest goal in World Cup history.

The ball is being sold by Tunisian referee Ali Bin Nasser, who officiated the match.

It is expected the ball could fetch nearly €3m at the auction.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63240476

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Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/reid-all-about-it/