redsfan84 wrote:probably cos it was an aussie shirt rather than an england shirt, and that it's on ebay rather than just on here.
A bit of both. The Aussie shirt was a training top too, not a playing jersey.
Reminds me of when Steve Hodge was contemplating putting Diego Maradona's playing shirt from Argentina vs. England in Mexico '86 up for auction. This was shortly after Pele's Mexico 1970 shirt (the one he swapped with Bobby Moore) went for £150,000+ — more than 3 times the estimate. Anyway, Christie's told Hodge they expected it to take no more than £600. Reason being that this type of sports memorabilia, i.e. signed shirts, is only really valued in the U.K., and unless a few Scots were willing push the value up to its true worth, auctioning the shirt would be pointless. To quote Terry Butcher: 'I wouldn't even wash my car with that rag, that's how strongly I feel about what he did'.
So never underestimate the extent to which some Englishmen dislike the Aussies.
