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A World Cup medal and a European Cup medal won by Nobby Stiles have been bought for more than £200,000 by Manchester United.

The World Cup medal which Mr Stiles won in the 1966 final against West Germany was sold for £160,000 at auction.

The 68-year-old’s European Cup medal, which he won with Manchester United in 1968, also went under the hammer, fetching more than £49,000.

The sale was handled by Convery Auctions in Edinburgh.

It is a Scottish company which specialises in sporting memorabilia.

Mr Stiles was selling his collection for the benefit of his family.

The 1966 World Cup final medal will cost the buyer £188,200 when premiums, commission and VAT are added.

The price trumped the £165,000 fetched by team-mate Alan Ball’s World Cup medal five years ago.

Mr Stiles made a total of £424,438 from the auction at the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh.

The collection included Mr Stiles’s 1966 World Cup cap, which went for more than £35,000.

The blue Manchester United shirt he wore in the European Cup final against Benfica was sold for £30,582, while Alan Ball’s 1966 World Cup final shirt – which Mr Stiles acquired from his team-mate as a swap after the match – fetched nearly £52,000.

He was born Norbert Peter Stiles in Collyhurst, Manchester, in 1942, and was awarded the MBE in 2000 for his part in England’s 4-2 victory over West Germany on 30 July 1966.



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