‘HAND OF GOD’ BALL FETCHES $2.4M

The ball punched in by Diego Maradona for his “Hand of God” goal at the 1986 World Cup has been sold at auction for nearly $2.4 million by the referee who missed football’s most famous handball. Ali Bin Nasser, the Tunisian who refereed the game between Argentina and England in Mexico, owned the 36-yearold Adidas ball that was sold at Graham Budd Auctions in London for $2.37 million. Bin Nasser said before the auction that he hoped the buyer would put it on public display.