England captain Bobby Moore's missing 1966 World Cup-winning shirt has been discovered in Wales, according to reports. The red No6 jersey, estimated to be worth over £1 million, was last seen at the home of his former wife, Tina Moore.
Tina Moore, who was married to Bobby for 24 years, told the Mail last year she would 'really love to get that shirt back where it belongs - with me, with my family and with the nation'. The shirt had been kept folded in a leather bag in the attic of the couple's Essex home.
The shirt is reported to be in the possession of Neville Evans, 61, a tyre tycoon and Britain's biggest collector of football memorabilia. A source told The Sun that a relative of Evans had confided four months ago that the jersey is part of his National Football Shirt Collection.
Tina and her daughter Roberta said: 'We are incredibly grateful to The Sun for taking up the challenge. It seems Mr Evans is likely to have it or know where it is.' Evans, who lives in a £2m mansion in West Wales, co-authored a book last year, Three Lions on a Shirt: The Official History of the England Football Jersey.
The book initially planned to feature Moore's shirt, but after legal letters from the Moore family, it was replaced with Sir Geoff Hurst's No10 jersey. Co-author Daren Burney said at the time: 'We are saddened our discovery of Bobby's shirt has caused the Moore family distress.' He added cryptically that the shirt 'is no longer under the same ownership and we can categorically state we have no idea where the shirt is now or who owns it'.
Tina Moore described the shirt as 'an intensely personal reminder of the Bobby we loved deeply'. She added: 'He wore the shirt on that unforgettable day having fought his own private battle with testicular cancer. He became a national hero that day, but he was already our hero and our Bobby.'
