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World Cup winner Sir Alf Ramsey's England job letter fetches £3,400 | |
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A letter confirming World Cup-winning Sir Alf Ramsey's appointment as England manager has sold for £3,400. | |
Dated 26 October 1962, the letter, signed by Denis Follows, then secretary of the Football Association, offers an annual salary of £4,500. | Dated 26 October 1962, the letter, signed by Denis Follows, then secretary of the Football Association, offers an annual salary of £4,500. |
Sir Alf, who died in 1999, managed England for 11 years, winning the World Cup in 1966. | |
A silver salver commemorating his 100th game in charge of England topped the letter, selling for £3,600. | |
Both were sold for several times their reserve price. | |
Thirty lots from the estate of Sir Alf's widow Lady Victoria Ramsey, who died in March, went under the hammer at Clarke and Simpson auction house in Framlingham, Suffolk. | |
The letter details a salary rising annually by £100 increments to a maximum of £5,000, to start from the following May. | The letter details a salary rising annually by £100 increments to a maximum of £5,000, to start from the following May. |
The salary would equate to about £95,500 today. | The salary would equate to about £95,500 today. |
The salver was presented to Sir Alf by the Council of the FA at England's match against Wales in 1972. | |
There had been an estimate of £600-800 on the letter, with the salver expected to attract between £1,000 and £1,500. | |
Items from Sir Alf's time as manager at Ipswich Town, who he led to become English champions in the 1961-62 season, were also sold at the auction. | |
Geoff Barfoot, from the auction house, had said it was "exciting" to be auctioning the items because of Ramsey's "links to the local community". | |
"A quirk of the letter is that the 'O' in October is out of line, so perhaps the FA's typewriter wasn't very good!" | "A quirk of the letter is that the 'O' in October is out of line, so perhaps the FA's typewriter wasn't very good!" |
The auction was held as England's 2018 World Cup players prepare for their opening match against Tunisia in Volgograd, Russia. |