Manchester United splash out £237,000 for Nobby Stiles' medals

Manchester United paid £188,200 to buy Nobby Stiles 1966 World Cup winners' medal - a new world record sum for a football medal. The club also paid £49,400 for Stiles' 1968 European Cup winner's medal.

Nobby Stiles with his 1966 World Cup winners medal

A 1966 World Cup winners' medal and a 1968 European Cup winner's medal belonging to Nobby Stiles have been bought by Manchester United for more than £237,000.

United paid £188,200 for the World Cup winners medal - a new world record for a footballing medal.

The club then shelled out another £49,400 for the medal Stiles won with the United team which won the European Cup against Benfica at Wembley in 1968.

Both are to go on display in the club museum.

The MEN revealed how Stiles, 68, who suffered a stroke in June, had decided to sell his medals and other memorabilia because he couldn't decide how to divide them between his three sons.

The auction in Edinburgh featured the shirt worn by Stiles' England colleague Alan Ball during the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany. His England cap from the final went for £35,287.

Alan Ball's World Cup medal was previously the most expensive footballing medal after selling for £165,000 five years ago.

Convery Auctions, which was handling the sale said interest had come from as far away as Australia, Chile and the Far East.



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