An incident will have to go a long way to be deemed more outrageous than this especially if you are of an English persuasion. England took on Argentina in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The encounter was goalless at half-time but it did not take long for things to spark into life after the break. As England keeper Peter Shilton came out to collect a high ball into his box, 5ft 5in Diego Maradona leapt in front of him and punched the ball into the net. Somehow Tunisian referee Ali Bin Nasser failed to spot footballs most disgraceful ever crime and England would go on to be knocked out. Maradona made some amends to the worlds audience five minutes later, though, as he dribbled beyond five England defenders before slotting beyond Shilton for his second goal of the game. He had the world on side again but not the English, though.
