SO, WHO BOUGHT WHAT IN THE GREAT ENGLAND CHARITY AUCTION?

THE England team have turned out for the first time since Stuart Pearce took charge — at a charity dinner. The main event at the first England Footballers Foundation ‘Lions and Roses’ dinner was an auction that raised an estimated £250,000. And with tickets at £495 and nearly 400 people in attendance,

the total money raised for the foundation’s charity partners will be sizeable. The team were joined by former England players Gary Neville and Dennis Wise. Wise (right) came close to winning the most expensive auction item, a world exclusive Bentley car. But his top bid of £120,000 was beaten by an anonymous diner and it went for £130,000. John Terry also entered a bidding war with another anonymous guest to win dinner with JLS. He had to settle for a draw after he bid £15,000 and the boy band said they would attend two dinners if that was matched, raising £30,000. Terry was joined by Chelsea team-mate Frank Lampard in an emotional video pledging support to the Help Harry Help Others campaign. They were close to Harry Moseley, who was born with an inoperable brain tumour and set up the campaign, but died last year aged 11. Ashley Cole went head to head with actor Ray Winstone to win lunch with singer Ellie Goulding but he lost to Winstone’s offer of £10,000. And all the England players entered the raffle to win a Range Rover but lost out to Stephanie Moore (below), the widow of Bobby Moore, who planned to donate it to an auction for the Bobby Moore Fund. The England team have raised more than £2.2million for charities including Together for Short Lives, Wellchild and the Bobby Moore Fund.

For more details: www.englandfootballersfoundation.co.uk