The football with which Diego Maradona scored his famous ‘hand of God’ goal at the 1986 World Cup has sold at auction for £2.5m. Maradona famously punched the ball past goalkeeper Peter Shilton in Argentina’s 2-1 quarter-final win over England. After the game, he told reporters it had been scored “a little with the head
Will Macpherson August 24, 2026 — 8:48am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA English cricket is embroiled in another drinking episode after Brydon Carse was led away from a nightclub in handcuffs by police. In a short video circulating on social
Yet again, the England men’s cricket team is picking through the wreckage of a late-night misdemeanour. The latest stain on the game’s reputation is a result of pictures of fast bowler Brydon Carse in handcuffs and surrounded by police officers outside a nightspot in Derby. His Durham team-mate Matthew Potts is in the images, while
England bowler Brydon Carse is under investigation after he was reportedly involved in an incident at a nightclub in Derby on Saturday, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has confirmed. Videos circulating on social media on Sunday appeared to show Carse in handcuffs, being led away from a club by four police officers. The
After taking a wicket with the first ball of the Test, England dominated Pakistan across two and a half rain-affected days. They appeared more measured in their approach than during the ultra-aggressive Stokes-McCullum regime, but still scored at 4.55 runs per over – albeit against a poor Pakistan side. “We played to the fashion that
Emilio Gay: Only batted once given Pakistan’s poor performance and played nice shots in a breezy 33. His dismissal was the fourth time in his four-Test career he has been caught nicking off to the wicketkeeper or the slips, however. It is a problem. 4 Ben Duckett: A quiet Test in which he made only
