The player who wore this Portugal shirt, Filipe (Ramos), didn’t have the most spectacular of careers, but that doesn’t remove the appeal of this item. The design is awash with late-1980s and early-1990s stylings, with a look familiar to the period just before the transition to German supplier...

This relic from the hugely emotional all-Merseyside 1989 FA Cup Final boasts significance on several levels. Match-issued, the player-specification shirt features embroidered logos - including the crest and its competition-event detailing below - and is a great example of the design Everton would go...

This George Best shirt, with Bukta and Athletic Stores labels, was recently put up for auction, with interest unsurprisingly high, and a closing bid of £8,000. Best played, most famously, for Manchester United, and while he never appeared on the World Cup stage, the sadly departed legend also...

At first glance, this football shirt is not aesthetically wondrous, in plain red with white crew neck and cuffs and with a white number 9 on the reverse that would not win any design awards. It even has areas of tearing, unstitching and repair, but provenance is everything and the shirt was...

While Gordon McQueen had a sterling spell at Manchester United, it may be that his wearing of this shirt was no more important than its design and general significance in bringing about its sale price. Selling for £6,500 by auction - after an estimate of £1,200-1,500 - the adidas article, complete with...

The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup - the forerunner of Uefa Europa League forerunner the Uefa Cup - is now so long departed that it is part of footballing folklore, perhaps partly explaining the hefty sale price of this Juventus shirt. Made available via auction and eventually selling for £12,000, the blue...

A match-worn Argentina Home shirt from 30 plus years ago bearing a number 10 on the reverse is always going to pique interest, but this example is a curveball. Instead of being worn by one Diego Maradona, this long-sleeved relic from the Argentines’ triumphant 1991 Copa América campaign in Chile -...

The 2022 World Cup in Qatar was headline-grabbing for lots of reasons - both positive and negative - but there’s no doubt the final was as exciting as they come. With that in mind, and with the fixture resulting in Lionel Messi finally conquering the global game on the international scene, a ball...

Eventually lasting through the pessimistic estimate of £400-600, this Celtic shirt match-worn by club legend Tommy Gemmell was recently made available at auction. The association with a veritable “Lisbon Lion” in around 1970, and the significance of the specific article combined with the timeless...

As worn in qualifying for the France ’98 World Cup, where Norway would defeat eventual finalists Brazil in the group stage, this adidas design for the Scandinavians is both stylish and associated with success. With the template giving off a vague impression of the Norwegian flag, there is a...