The Association has called for Bobby Moore’s winning shirt to be found and ‘put on display to the nation’.
Moore’s red number six jersey which he wore when he captained to glory against West Germany in 1966 has been reported missing by his first wife, Tina, in a story published by the Daily Mail.
‘If there is somebody out there who has the shirt, I appeal for them to come to us, and explain how they came about it,’ Mrs Moore said.
‘I would really love to get that shirt back where it belongs – with me, with my family, and with the nation, for everyone to have a chance to look at it and marvel at Bobby’s achievements.
‘I would beg that they just come to us, explain how they came about it. I’m sure it’s been done in very good faith.
‘More than anything I just want back which Bobby gave me and entrusted me. I owe it to him and my family to get it back.’
Moore, who played for West Ham and Fulham and was capped 108 times by England, died from bowel cancer in 1993.
The FA said: ‘Bobby Moore is an England hero. It would be wonderful if there was a way of finding his historic World Cup winning shirt and putting it on display for the nation.’
The mystery behind the missing shirt was partially solved in 2021 when the FA phoned Moore’s daughter, Roberta, 58, and said: ‘Your father’s shirt has been found.’
They said that it was in the hands of a private buyer, whose identity remains a secret. It is unclear how many times it may have changed hands since they last saw it in the 1980s.
‘It was a huge shock and at first totally baffling,’ Roberta told the Mail.
‘The shirt belongs to my mother and she had been looking for it for years. Now out of the blue they were telling us about some private buyer and it had been ‘found’?
‘It was all very strange. The information was vague. The shirt had been ‘found at a general auction of an unknown deceased person’. It was hard to comprehend.
‘How does the shirt go from being tucked in a bag in my mother’s attic to an auction of a deceased person?’
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