Less than a week after Wayne Rooney signed a staggering £1 million-a-month contract with Manchester Utd, former legend Nobby Stiles was yesterday forced to part with his prized 1966 World Cup winners' medal, along with the medal he received for winning the European Cup with the club.
Stiles' decision to sell his medals came about after a period of ill health made him consider how he could provide for his family when he is gone. Announcing the decision to auction some of his memorabilia in September, Stiles said:
"I have had a bit of bad time and I want to leave something for my family,” Stiles told reporters.
The fee for World Cup medal, bought at an auction for football memorabillia in Edinburgh, is thought to be £188,200, eclipsing the previous record paid for a winners' medal — that of the late Alan Ball's World Cup winners' medal that fetched £165,000 five years ago. "I have had a bit of bad time and I want to leave something for my family,” Stiles told reporters.
To put that in perspective, Stiles' prized posession has fetched what Rooney would earn in just over five days work!
Manchester United - who bought the medals - will now display the medals at Old Trafford as a mark of respect to their former loyal servant Stiles.
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