ENGLAND captain Bobby Moore’s missing 1966 World Cup winning shirt has turned up in Wales, it was announced last night.
The red number 6 shirt, worth more than £1m, was last seen at ex-wife Tina’s home in Essex 30 years ago and she wants it back.
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Missing 1966 World Cup champion Bobby Moore’s shirt ‘turned up in Wales’ Credit: Getty
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Moore’s red number 6 shirt, worth more than £1m, was last seen at ex-wife Tina’s home in Essex 30 years ago Credit: Offside
A source says Britain’s biggest collector of footwear memorabilia told a relative: “I’ve got it.”
Skipper Bobby wore the red number 6 shirt as he lifted the Jules Rimet trophy at Wembley.
It was last seen in Tina’s loft in Essex 30 years ago and is now said to be worth more than £1 million.
A source told us that a relative of tycoon Neville Evans, 61, confided four months ago that the shirt was part of his National Football Shirt Collection.
They added that the relative saw the shirt.
They said: “He showed me a clip of the Sun article about the shirt last year (April 2023), and said ‘Neville has that shirt’.”
Tina, married to Bobby from 1962 to 1986, and daughter of Robert, said: “We are incredibly grateful to The Sun for taking on the challenge.
“It seems that Mr. Evans probably has it or knows where it is.
“We would beg him to tell us what he knows.”
Evans, who lives in a £2m mansion in West Wales, last year co-authored the book Three Lions on the Shirt: The Official History of the England Football Kit.
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Many of the images were taken from shirts in his collection.
Prior to publication, FA contacted Tina and said that Bobby’s shirt would be photographed.
But that triggered legal letters from Bobby’s family and the shirt was replaced in the book with Sir Geoff Hurst’s number 10 shirt.
Co-author Daren Burney said at the time: “We are sorry that our discovery of Bobby’s shirt has caused the Moore family distress.”
He cryptically added that the shirt “is no longer in the same ownership and we can categorically state that we have no idea where the shirt is now or who the owner is.”
But there was never any record of a sale or auction.
Evans is a well-respected sports memorabilia dealer and there is no indication that he obtained the shirt illegally.
The employee in his office did not comment.
Evans said the same at his home the next day.
Tina added: “Bobby’s shirt may be one of the most iconic in British sporting history, but for Roberta and I it is an intensely personal reminder of the Bobby we loved so much and everything he stood for.
“He was a loving husband and father, a gentleman as well as a leader.
“He wore the shirt on that memorable day after fighting his own battle with testicular cancer.
“Very few people understood the agony he went through.
“He became a national hero that day, but he was already our hero and our Bobi.
“Bobby gave it to me along with all his memorabilia.
“It was a really special gift and it obviously meant a lot to him that I got it.”
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Tina was married to Bobby from 1962 to 1986. Credit: Rex
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Neville Evans is a well-respected sports memorabilia dealer and there is no indication that he illegally obtained Bobby’s shirt
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Bobby wore the top as he lifted the Jules Rimet trophy at Wembley Credit: Getty
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