It’s the defining image of England’s best soccer triumph – however World Cup captain Bobby Moore’s well-known pink shirt has gone lacking.
Thriller surrounds its whereabouts 57 years after he hoisted the Jules Rimet trophy at Wembley. And for the soccer legend’s baffled household, there’s a whiff of foul play.
The final time ex-wife Tina noticed the 1966 pink quantity six strip, it was in her attic. To her shock, it has now cropped up within the palms of an unknown non-public purchaser at an public sale. It might fetch thousands and thousands of kilos.
Right this moment the Mail can reveal the disturbing riddle that has bewildered Moore’s household, and prompted them to concern a heartfelt plea to get better the shirt.
Bobby Moore holds the Jules Rimet trophy aloft after England win the 1966 World Cup remaining in opposition to West Germany at Wembley
Sir Bobby’s first spouse Tina, left, and daughter Roberta are interesting for the return of the shirt
Mrs Moore, his spouse of 24 years, stated: ‘I’d actually like to get that shirt again the place it belongs – with me, with my household, and with the nation, for everybody to have an opportunity to take a look at it and marvel at Bobby’s achievement.’
They final noticed the shirt a long time in the past. Within the Seventies and Nineteen Eighties, it was stored folded in a leather-based bag within the attic of the home Tina and Bobby shared in Chigwell, Essex.
Their daughter Roberta remembers seeing it once they went up into the attic to fetch Christmas decorations.
When Moore was dying of most cancers in 1992, his daughter introduced his cherished trophies, medals and caps to his dwelling so he might maintain them for a remaining time.
However the well-known pink shirt was not among the many possessions – nor an nearly equally treasured yellow Brazil shirt that Moore had swapped along with his rival Pele on the 1970 World Cup.
Sir Bobby’s 1966 shirt was stored within the loft of his mansion in Chigwell, Essex
Additionally lacking is the shirt given to Moore by Brazil star Pele after an epic encounter in 1970
For years afterwards, Mrs Moore hunted for the lacking shirts in useless. She merely doesn’t know the way they vanished.
Then in 2021 the household was astonished to be phoned by the Soccer Affiliation and informed: ‘Your father’s shirt has been discovered.’
Much more mysteriously, the FA revealed it was now ‘within the palms of a non-public purchaser’, recollects Roberta.
There is no such thing as a suggestion the present holder has carried out something improper. The shirt might have modified palms many instances.
She stated: ‘It was an enormous shock and at first, completely baffling. The shirt belongs to my mom and she or he had been on the lookout for it for years. Now out of the blue, they had been telling us about some non-public purchaser, and it had been “discovered”?’
Surprised by the information, Roberta and her mom sought extra particulars about the place the shirt had been – and the place it was now.
The statue of Bobby Moore exterior Wembley stadium – the location of his 1966 triumph
Roberta, 58, added: ‘It was all very unusual. The data was obscure. The shirt had been “discovered at a normal public sale of an unknown deceased particular person”. It was onerous to understand – how does the shirt go from being tucked in a bag in my mom’s attic to an public sale of a deceased particular person?’
And as for who has the shirt now, the Moores say they had been informed: ‘They requested to stay nameless.’
In an extra twist, the present holder of the shirt apparently received ‘spooked’ by all the eye.
The Moores are adamant that regardless of the circumstances during which the particular person purchased the shirt, it belongs to Tina. When Bobby divorced Tina in 1986 – and remarried Stephanie Parlane in 1991 shortly earlier than his demise in 1993 – his soccer memorabilia was given to Tina within the settlement.
Moore kissing Tina throughout a banquet in honour of the 1966 World Cup squad
Right this moment the household are making a passionate plea to the holder of the shirt to return ahead.
Mrs Moore, 79, stated: ‘If there may be any individual on the market who has the shirt, I enchantment for them to return to us, and clarify how they took place it.
‘I’m certain it’s been carried out in superb religion, however I don’t suppose the individuals or this particular person are conscious of what’s occurred.
‘I’d simply love to have the ability to discuss to them and discover out. However greater than something, I simply wish to get again the shirt which Bobby gave to me and entrusted to me. I owe it to him and the household to get it again. That’s my want.’
The Soccer Affiliation doesn’t know who has the shirt, nor the way it got here to depart the possession of the Moore household.
However an FA spokesman stated: ‘Bobby Moore is an England hero. It might be fantastic if there was a approach of discovering his historic World Cup successful shirt and placing it on show for the nation.’
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