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Sports Memorabilia: When balls and shoes are worth more than just silver and gold

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The Hand of God. Another genuinely iconic image in World Cup history here, as Diego Maradona beats Peter Shilton to the ball and punches it into the net to give Argentina the lead against England in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup. [AP]

As Tunisian referee Ali bin Nasser took control of the World Cup quarter-final pitting England and Argentina on the afternoon of June 22, 1986, little did he know the next 90 minutes would change the course of history forever.

Football holds a great deal of history, and its foundations lie in the memories people hold most dear. This quarter-final between the Europeans and the South Americans came four years at the back of the Falklands war, an "undeclared war" between the two over British Overseas Territories (BOTs) south of the Atlantic.

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