Sir Geoff's 1966 jersey sold for £8,880

The red number 10 shirt was the most valuable of the 19 football mementoes, mostly international shirts, sold at auction for 27,522 by Nora Cocker, the 86-year-old widow of the late England and Leeds United trainer Les Cocker.

Mr Cocker,who was 55 when he collapsed and died while coaching Doncaster Rovers in 1979, collected the shirts in his 12-year spell as England trainer between 1962 and 1974 and then as England's assistant manager between 1974 and 1977.

The Cocker collection – sold at Bonhams in Chester – also included the spare blue jersey issued to Sheffield-born England goalkeeper Gordon Banks for the 1970 World Cup finals in Mexico.

It was there that he made what is still regarded as one of the greatest saves of all time, from a Pele header, tipping the ball over the bar with his thumb from an almost impossible angle, leaning backwards and down at the same time .

The Banks jersey fetched 1,500.