Shilton will snub invitation to meet Diego unless he says sorry for 'Hand of God' goal

England legend Peter Shilton will turn down an invitation to meet Diego Maradona until he apologies for his infamous 'Hand of God' goal in 1986.

The 68-year-old former goalkeeper Shilton, whose 125 caps for England remains a record, has never forgiven Maradona for cheating England in the World Cup quarter-final in Mexico 32 years ago.

Maradona has invited Shilton to a dinner in June but the former Nottingham Forest and Leicester City keeper isn't exactly eager to accept.

He told The Sun: 'Part of me thinks it's time to call a halt to it all but the other side says I shouldn't.

'If I agreed to meet him then he would have to apologise, that is the bottom line.

'We were both captains on that day. I've never met him since. I wasn't exactly dying to meet him. But it has been a long time now.'

Shilton previously turned down the chance to meet Maradona at an event in Abu Dhabi in 2012.

And in an interview in 2016, Shilton claimed the thought of shaking Maradona's hand made him feel 'sick'.

Shilton even asked his Twitter followers whether he should meet his nemesis, with 62 per cent saying that he should.

But the prospect of an apology anytime soon appears unlikely. In a recent book, Maradona wrote: 'I'm not sorry for scoring with my hand. Not then, not 30 years later...not on my death bed.'