Bobby Moore’s lost 1966 World Cup shirt ‘found 30 years after going missing’

The garment worn by Bobby Moore during England’s 1966 World Cup triumph has reportedly been traced to a backstage collector – who is present being urged to instrumentality it to the precocious footballer’s family.

The reddish number-6 top, which Moore wore arsenic helium lifted the trophy astatine Wembley, was kept successful a container successful the attic of ex-wife Tina’s Essex location earlier vanishing much than 3 decades ago.

Tina spent years trying to find the shirt, present said to beryllium worthy £1 million, arsenic good arsenic a yellowish Brazil garment Moore swapped with Pelé astatine the pursuing World Cup, which went missing astatine the aforesaid time.

It was presumed mislaid until 2021, erstwhile the FA called Tina to accidental Moore’s jersey would beryllium pictured successful an upcoming book, ‘Three Lions connected a Shirt: The Official History of the England Football Jersey’.

Its authors were Neville Evans, who is said to beryllium the UK’s biggest collector of shot memorabilia, Daren Burney and Simon Shakeshaft.

The FA said the garment had been bought astatine an auction of an ‘unknown deceased person’, according to Moore’s girl Roberta.

But the purchaser insisted connected remaining anonymous and did not respond to Tina and Roberta’s attempts astatine getting successful contact.

The photograph was omitted aft Moore’s household threatened to quality its inclusion.

At the time, Burney claimed the garment had been pictured 2 years earlier and that that helium and his co-authors had since been ‘informed by lawyers it is nary longer nether the aforesaid ownership.

‘We tin categorically authorities that we person nary thought wherever the garment is present oregon who owns it’, helium told BBC News past year.

The Sun reports the garment is present successful the possession of 1 of the authors, Evans, who owns a trove of humanities jerseys which helium calls the ‘National Football Shirt Collection’.

A root told the paper that a comparative of Evans, 61, was told by the collector: ‘I person it’.

There is nary proposition that Evans, who is said to beryllium surviving successful Wales, acquired Moore’s garment illegally oregon improperly.

In a connection to The Sun, Tina and Roberta said: ‘It seems Mr Evans is apt to person it oregon cognize wherever it is.

‘We’d implore him to archer america what helium knows.’

Evans declined to comment.

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