Sir Bobby Moore photographs on display to mark 2018 World Cup

Family photographs of football hero Sir Bobby Moore have gone on display to mark the 2018 World Cup.

The National Portrait Gallery in London has acquired a selection of photographs of the sport star on and off the pitch from his daughter, Roberta Moore, which will form an exhibition called Bobby Moore: First Gentleman Of English Football.

Sir Bobby became a national hero as captain of the England team which won the World Cup for the first, and only, time in 1966.

The gallery said the images 0 Sir Bobby Moore is celebrated in an exhibition provide an insight into both his professional and personal life 25 years after his death.

The portraits date from 1962 when the 21-year-old Moore became captain of West Ham, and among them is a striking image of him winning the ball from George Best while playing against Northern Ireland in 1964.

Best, who was later his teammate at Fulham, remembered that in 20 years of playing against each other, he only got past Moore once.

Aportraitofmoorewithfootballer Johnny Byrne jumping in the rain holding umbrellas by Daily Mirror sports photographer Monte Fresco captures the two friends after training, suggestingtheincreasingpublic interest in footballers’ lives. A family picture of Moore with his first wife Tina shows football’s golden couple outside their home in Chigwell, Essex.