Bobby Moore’s lost 1966 World Cup shirt worth £1m tracked down to Wales after going missing for 30 years

ENGLAND skipper Bobby Moore’s missing 1966 World Cup-winning garment has turned up successful Wales, it was claimed past night.

The reddish No6 jersey, worthy £1million-plus, was past seen astatine ex-wife Tina’s Essex location 30 years agone and she wants it returned.

A root says Britain’s biggest collector of footie memorabilia told a relative: “I person it”.

Skipper Bobby wore the reddish No6 apical arsenic helium lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy astatine Wembley.

It was past seen successful Tina’s Essex attic 30 years agone and is present said to beryllium worthy much than £1million.

The root told america a comparative of tyre tycoon Neville Evans, 61, had confided 4 months agone that the jersey is portion of his National Football Shirt Collection.

They added the comparative has seen the shirt.

They said: “He showed maine a clipping of a Sun nonfiction astir the garment past twelvemonth (April 2023), and helium said ‘Neville has got that shirt’.”

Tina, wed to Bobby from 1962-86, and girl Roberta said: “We are incredibly grateful to The Sun for taking up the challenge.

“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, who lives successful a £2m mansion successful West Wales, co-authored a publication past year, Three Lions connected a Shirt: The Official History of the England Football Jersey.

Many pictures were taken from shirts successful his collection.

Before publishing, the FA contacted Tina to accidental Bobby’s garment would beryllium pictured.

But it acceptable disconnected ineligible letters from Bobby’s household and the jersey was replaced successful the publication with Sir Geoff Hurst’s No10 jersey.

Co-author Daren Burney said astatine the time: “We are saddened our find of Bobby’s garment has caused the Moore household distress.”

He added cryptically that the garment “is nary longer nether the aforesaid ownership and we tin categorically authorities we person nary thought wherever the garment is present oregon who owns it”.

But determination was ne'er immoderate grounds of a merchantability oregon auction.

Evans is simply a well-respected trader of sporting memorabilia and determination is nary proposition helium acquired the garment illegally.

A pistillate worker astatine his bureau gave nary comment.

Evans said the aforesaid astatine his location the adjacent day.

Tina added: “Bobby’s garment whitethorn beryllium 1 of the astir iconic successful British sporting history, but for Roberta and maine it is an intensely idiosyncratic reminder of the Bobby we loved profoundly and everything helium stood for.

“He was a loving hubby and father, a man arsenic good arsenic a leader.

“He wore the garment connected that unforgettable time having fought his ain backstage conflict with testicular cancer.

“Very fewer radical realised the agony helium had been through.

“He became a nationalist leader that day, but helium was already our leader and our Bobby.

“Bobby gave it to maine on with each his memorabilia.

“It was a genuinely peculiar acquisition and it intelligibly meant a batch to him that I should person it."