Diego Maradona dead: Argentina legend dies aged 60

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11. You're assuming that he deliberately knocked the ball in with his hand.

In the replay you can see he jumps up to make a header, but his hand is there too and the ball hits his hand. Now, given that as a talented professional soccer player he has probably made dozens of goals off his head (and was in fact perfectly set to do so there), WHY would he risk having the goal disqualified by using his hand? It is, in fact, somewhat of a miracle that the goal WASN’T disqualified, as it’s pretty clear it was his hand knocking it in.

To call him a cheater because the refs missed the call is a tad harsh and unfair. These things happen in a split second, and, as I mentioned before, in soccer you don’t call a penalty on yourself, you let the refs decide.