Wilson's Auctions have been honoured by the Executors of Dickie Best’s Estate to sell by Public Auction a Collection of George Best Memorabilia on their behalf.

Featuring 110 individual lots including match worn international jerseys, framed prints, programmes, many George Best signed items, personalised crystal and silverware.

Mementoes from the career of George Best, the legendary Manchester United and Northern Ireland player, were kept by his father Dickie and will go under the hammer on Thursday.

Items included in the auction range from 1960s shirts from international matches against England to a 1964 Manchester United Christmas card, all collected by Dickie, who died aged 88 last year.

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David Beckham has donated the shirt in which he made his record-equalling 108th England cap to charity.

The number 17 shirt worn by Beckham will now be auctioned on behalf of The Bobby Moore Fund. 

"It was a very, very generous gesture," Stephanie Moore told BBC Radio 5 Live.  

"That shirt is of great emotional value to David.

"It was very kind and generous of him to donate it to the charity so we can auction it to raise funds for dedicated bowel cancer research - the disease that killed Bobby so young."

"I know Bobby would have been the first to congratulate him. David has given so much to the sport and continues to so on so many different levels across the world, we should be proud of him.

"To have achieved 108 caps at this level, whether he goes on for part or all of the match, is considerable.

"Bobby would have smiled and said well done, congratulations, enjoy the moment and go on and do even better."

Moore died in 1993, aged 51, after suffering from bowel cancer and the fund was set-up in his honour the same year in partnership with Cancer Research UK.

The Head Equipment Manager from Juventus was arrested this week for stealing more than 2,000 home, away and yellow training shirts from his own club.

Adrian Roberto Oliva was arrested on his way to Spain were he wanted to sell the shirts on the black market. After searching his van, the police found 700 shirts and another 400, plus £1,800, in his apartment.

The 36-year-old Equipment Manager was filmed putting handfuls of the shirts calmly into black bin liners, completely unaware that he was being caught on camera.(as you can see in this video) 

Juventus officials became suspicious when they noticed more than 2,000 football shirts - costing £70 each - had disappeared from the club's stockroom.

One of Preston's greatest sons is to be honoured in a brand new exhibition to open in 2009 at the National Football Museum. Local Hero, Football Legend will celebrates the life and times of Sir Tom Finney, Preston 's greatest footballer.

The exhibition, which opens on 28 March 2009, will pay tribute to the footballing genius of Sir Tom, who played for Preston North End for his entire career. However it will also look at the stories behind the man, born and bred in Preston , who makes an impact on everyone he meets. Photographs, film, objects and peoples memories will all be included.

The launch of the exhibition will coincide with Sir Tom Finney Day on 26 March and a gala dinner taking place at Preston 's Guildhall in the evening.

Arsenal FC will put Samir Nasri’s special edition home football shirt, worn at Arsenal’s Premier League match against Manchester United on 8 November 2008, on auction site eBay in aid of The Royal British Legion and Help for Heroes early next week.

The Frenchman, who found the back of the net twice in the Gunners’ stunning 2-1 victory over Manchester United, has donated this special edition shirt worn by players for the first time in the Club’s history to mark Remembrance Sunday.

Players wore a shirt with a poppy embroidered onto the chest of their distinctive red and white jerseys.  Following the match, players signed the shirts and they have been auctioned and raffled in a variety of ways in order to help these two organisations that support servicemen and women and their families.

Samir Nasri’s shirt will be the only Gunners jersey to be put on eBay by Arsenal Football Club.

Around 100 rare football shirts will go under the hammer tuesday and wednesday as they are being auctioned by Graham Budd Auctions Ltd. The collector's items will be sold at Sotheby's saleroom in Olympia, West London.

at: Sotheby’s Olympia - Hammersmith Road - London -W14 8UX

You can place online bids through this Ebay auction page.

Thieves broke into the Liverpool midfielder's home as he was playing against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday, taking his Olympic bronze medal, football memorabilia and jewellery.

The midfielder’s Olympic bronze medal from Beijing was taken along with a number of Brazilian and Liverpool football shirts.

He is the latest Reds star whose house has been targeted after break-ins at the wealthy homes of players including Daniel Agger, Pepe Reina, Dirk Kuyt, Peter Crouch and Jerzy Dudek and Steven Gerrard.

Among the items stolen are: