This Arsenal shirt, which recently sold for a whopping £26,000 at auction, was worn by pre-war club stalwart and sometime captain Alf Baker. Not only that, the vintage item was carried by Baker in the 1930 FA Cup Final, which provided the Midlander with his first and only Gunners winner’s medal.

While USA ’94 was ultimately a disappointing tournament for reigning champions Germany, this item, advertised as an Andreas “Andy” Brehme shirt, is a beautiful piece of football history from that era. Recently sold at auction for £500 after being estimated at £400-600, the adidas design is...

This football artefact, listed as being a Pelé Santos FC shirt, recently sold at auction for £3600. Featuring the Brazilian side’s famous black and white stripes - generally a feature of change designs - and the man born Edson Arantes do Nascimento’s famous number 10 on the reverse, the shirt...

Someone arguably bagged a bargain when this Mauro Tassotti AC Milan shirt sold at auction recently. The hammer dropping at £500 - the midpoint of the £400-600 estimate - seems an extremely modest price paid for the Ennerre-made lot considering its iconic design, classic Hitachi sponsorship logo and...

This real football artefact was recently sold at auction, and the winner could own few things as iconic as an issued Brazil shirt of this vintage. With a deep-V neck and a sizeable collar, the green on the design contrasts beautifully with the yellow on the design, which also features a sublime...

This 1950 shirt, issued to now late Welsh striker Trevor Ford, recently sold at auction for £1900. With the features one would expect for an item of its age, the long-sleeved example in many ways resembles the timeless Wales rugby jersey, but this impression is removed by the presence of the...

Recently selling for £4000 at auction, this is Dieter Hoeneß’s Mexico ’86 shirt. An adidas design, as most (West) Germany shirts are, the item was only expected to reach between £500 and £700 but its significance - as a genuine World Cup shirt issued to a player who appeared in the Final - meant it...

Umbro have quite the pedigree in football kit design - they have been around for very close to a century - and way back in 1969, the year of these catalogue pages, they were a dominating force. Even something as simple as their “Blue ‘C’ Nylon” sock range excites - they did, after all, have a...

This is a Netherlands shirt issued to Dutch footballing legend Johnny Rep for the 1978 World Cup in Argentina and recently sold at auction for £3400. The classically styled adidas design is from one of the Oranje’s black-trimmed eras and is most associated with the run to the World Cup Final in...

This Bryan Robson shirt from Manchester United’s run to the quarter-finals of the 1984-85 Uefa Cup recently sold at auction for £8500. The Away design, which is slightly different to the domestic version in missing the two adidas logos from the sleeves and instead having one on the chest, carries the...