Maradona's 'Hand of God' ball sells for £2.5m

The maradona update

The football with which Diego Maradona scored his famous 'hand of God' goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final victory over England is sold at auction

The impact

The significance lies in what happens next: BBC notes that responses are already forming.

The maradona backdrop

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Where this fits in Signal Ledger

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Our maradona read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of maradona, hand, god, ball, sells: The football with which Diego Maradona scored his famous 'hand of God' goal in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final victory over England is sold at auction.