Celtic legend Bertie Auld's famous football tops expected to make £100k at auction

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The football shirt “Lisbon Lion” Bertie Auld swapped during Celtic’s historic European Cup win in 1967 is among jerseys being auctioned by his family in a sale expected to fetch around £100,000.The Celtic great died in 2021 aged 83 after being diagnosed with dementia and a portion of the proceeds will go to the charity set up in his name, the Bertie Auld Legacy.Among the 17 football shirts going on sale is the one the midfielder swapped with Inter Milan captain Armando Picchi after the Glasgow club’s 2-1 victory in the European Cup final in Lisbon in May 1967 - a result which led to the victorious players becoming known as the Lisbon Lions.Picchi was a legend of the game in Italy and experts at McTear’s auction house in Glasgow estimate the Inter Milan shirt could sell for between £20,000 and £30,000.

The collection also includes the jersey of Dutch star Rinus Israel, of Feyenoord, which was swapped following Celtic’s ill-fated European Cup final clash on May 6, 1970.The game, in which Celtic were defeated 2-1, secured Feyenoord, and the Netherlands, their first European Cup.

The jersey is expected to fetch up to £20,000. Auld’s son Robert Auld said: “Dad was quite humble about his achievements and didn’t talk too much about the games, but then again, he didn’t need to.“The shirts speak for themselves and show how Celtic went from underdogs on the international stage to one of the most dominant forces in Europe during the late 1960s and early 70s. “Dad was a phenomenon and a tremendously hard worker on and off the field.

He always said he never had any regrets in life, although he did admit that he could have scored four against Inter in the 1967 final.”He said his father would be pleased with the work the Bertie Auld