CHRIS DE BOO, ARGH! Singer was haunted by ghosts at castle home
A JERSEY made for football legend Pele for his lastever Brazil game is set to fetch €35,000 at auction.
The sporting world is still in mourning after the sporting icon died on December 29 aged 82.
Fans now have the chance to own his famous No 10 shirt — one of two yellow jerseys with green trim made for a 1971 friendly match with Yugoslavia, one with long sleeves and the other with short sleeves.
Pele wore the shortsleeved shirt for the game which was played in front of 138,575 fans in the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on July 18, 1971.
The game ended 2-2 but marked the end of Pele’s international career which
SINGER Chris de Burgh has revealed how he grew up in a haunted castle…and “spoke” to ghosts.
The 74-year-old musician, best known for 1986 song The Lady in Red, said that ghosts and ghouls were “all around” when he was a boy.
The dad of former Miss World Rosanna Davison, who was brought up in a 12th century fortress called Bargy Castle in Co Wexford, said it was haunted by “angry spirits”. saw him score 77 goals in 92 appearances for Brazil.
After the match, he gave the long-sleeved shirt to Brazil masseur Abilio Jose de Silva, an integral part of the national squad from the late 1960s through to 1994, and to whom Pele wanted to show his gratitude.
The unworn shirt, which now belongs to an English restaurant manager, will go under the hammer next month.
The 33-year-old seller, from Shropshire, said: “It’s
The singer’s grandfather, Eric de Burgh bought the castle in the 1960s.
And Chris’s parents — Maeve and Charles — turned it into a hotel, where a young Chris would sing to guests.
One of the former owners, John Harvey — who died in 1880 — is been an amazing piece of football memorabilia to be custodian of. I now feel it deserves a bigger stage.”
The shirt goes on sale at Hansons Auctioneers on February 15.
Auctioneer Charles Hanson said: “When you see this shirt you can imagine Pele’s emotions in the dressing room after that last game for Brazil.
“It’s been treasured for more than half a century and is in immaculate condition.” entombed in a specially-made mausoleum at the entrance to the castle, and is believed to be one of the phantoms haunting the castle.
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Asked about where he grew up, Chris said the castle was “rather grand”, but that it was in a right mess when his grandfather bought it.
Asked about whether he had seen any ghosts, the singer said it was “definitely haunted”, and that he had even “spoken to some of the ghosts”.
“I remember walking up and down the corridors and always feeling that something was there,” he said.
“Let’s just say that if you believed in poltergeists, there were more than enough to set your imagination racing,” De Burgh told the Home supplement in The Sunday Times.