R77m for Maradona soccer shirt

THE SHIRT worn by Diego Maradona when he scored two of the most famous goals in footballing history is up for auction by Sotheby’s and is expected to sell for at least £4 million (about R77m).

England midfielder Steve Hodge, who got the jersey after the 1986 World Cup quarter-final, said this week that he was putting it up for auction.

However, the sale was complicated by claims from Maradona’s family the wrong shirt was going under the hammer.

“It's not the shirt my dad wore in the second half,” his daughter Dalma Maradona said.

“I know for sure that he doesn’t have it and I know who does. “I don’t want to say who has it because it is mad.