England skipper Bobby Moore's missing 1966 World Cup winning shirt has turned up in Wales, it was claimed last night.
The red No.6 jersey, worth more than £1 million, was last seen at ex-wife Tina's home in Essex 30 years ago and she wants it returned.
A source says Britain's biggest collector of football memorabilia told a relative: “I've got it”.
Captain Bobby wore the red No6 top as he lifted the Jules Rimet Trophy at Wembley.
It was last seen in Tina's attic in Essex 30 years ago and is now believed to be worth more than £1 million.
The source told us that a relative of tire magnate Neville Evans, 61, confided four months ago that the shirt is part of his National Football Shirt Collection.
They added that the family member saw the shirt.
They said: “He showed me a clip of a Sun article about the shirt last year (April 2023) and he said: 'Neville has that shirt'.”
Tina, married to Bobby from 1962 to 1986, and daughter Roberta said: “We are incredibly grateful to The Sun for taking on the challenge.
“Looks like Mr. Evans probably has it, or knows where it is.
“We want to beg him to tell us what he knows.”
Evans, who lives in a £2 million mansion in west Wales, last year co-authored a book, Three Lions on a Shirt: The Official History of the England Football Jersey.
Many photos were taken of shirts in his collection.
Before it was published, the FA contacted Tina to say Bobby's shirt would be in the photo.
But it prompted legal letters from Bobby's family and the jersey was replaced in the book by Sir Geoff Hurst's number 10 jersey.
Co-author Daren Burney said at the time: “We are saddened that our discovery of Bobby's shirt has caused distress for the Moore family.”
He cryptically added that the shirt “no longer belongs to the same owner and we can categorically state that we have no idea where the shirt is now or who it belongs to.”
But there was never any sale or auction.
Evans is a respected dealer of sports memorabilia and there is no indication that he obtained the shirt illegally.
A female employee at his office did not comment.
Evans said the same thing 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 me it is an intensely personal reminder of the Bobby we loved and everything he stood for.
“He was a loving husband and father, both a gentleman and a leader.
“He wore the shirt on that unforgettable day after fighting his own battle with testicular cancer.
“Very few people realized the pain he had experienced.
“He became a national hero that day, but he was already our hero and our Bobby.
“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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