Good morning. Have you ever wanted to own a piece of sporting history?

From the shirt worn by England’s first black player to David Beckham’s famous Predator boots, Graham Budd Auctions are offering an incredible selection of sporting memorabilia at surprisingly affordable prices.

Check out the fascinating collection here.

FOOTBALL

📸 Take the fourth exit on the M62, turn left at the German war memorial and there’s a car park about half a mile down

As all good Shotters know, Jermaine Defoe has enjoyed a pretty exotic love life since hanging up his boots.

In 2022, the former Spurs man tied the knot in a £200,000 bash, but the wedding turned out to be a complete sham, acted out so they could flog the photos to Ok! Magazine.

Within a month of the “wedding”, Jermaine enjoyed a brief fling with one of the guests before the tabloids reported him “begging a nurse for sex on the backseat of his Range Rover”.

And this week the red tops had a follow up scoop: they bagged pics of Jermaine in the car park of a Hertfordshire golf club, where he “enjoyed a 20-min rendezvous with a mystery woman in the back seat of his motor”.

According to “an onlooker” (presumably one of their camouflaged hacks with a long lens), “a jacket appeared to have been tied between the two head-rests of the front seats. It was all very odd.”

It’s pretty clear what they’re insinuating, although we choose to believe Jermaine was just purchasing a Penny Red to add to his stamp collection…

BOXING

🛬 Syk and tired

As world heavyweight champion, you’d expect Oleksander Usyk to cruise around on a private jet, gorging on songbird pâté and stroking his pet liger in peace.

So it was a bit of a shock when Ryanair passengers spotted the boxer in a heated argument with gate staff at Krakow airport.

Within minutes, police were leading Usyk away in cuffs, and it took a call from Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Zelenskyy to secure his release.

But Usyk hadn’t been quibbling over £60 charge to print his boarding pass: the spat started when the airline refused to let his personal driver board the flight.

After spotting the chauffeur slumped against a wall, Ryanair staff assumed he was just another stag do survivor who’d been peeled off the wipe-clean floor of Candyland strip club.

Actually, the poor bloke had driven 14 hours straight to get Usyk to the airport, and was so tired he fell asleep standing up.

👕 A rare chance to own a piece of sporting history

From Maradona’s boots to the shirt worn by Viv Anderson when he became the first black player ever to represent the England National Team, Graham Budd Auctions are offering you some iconic items from the world of sport.

The fascinating collection includes:

• Over 500 football shirts, including match-worn shirts from famous games.

• Items from legends like Messi, Beckham and Maradona.

• Rare gems like Wayne Rooney’s Hublot testimonial watch and a torch from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.

There are 1,000 items in the catalogue, and there’s something for every budget size.

The auction takes place on 1st and 2nd October.

FOOTBALL

🎨 Holme truths

To a generation of the infirm and unemployed, Eamonn Holmes was the cuddly face of breakfast TV, cheerily shooting the shit with washed up Love Islanders about their latest perfume range with Battersea Dogs Home.

But the presenter has done a bit of a heel turn in recent years, pitching up on GB News and ditching his wife - beloved Loose Women presenter Ruth Langsford - for a new flame 20 years younger.

To be fair, the writing was probably on the wall for Ruth a few years back when Eamonn came home clutching an oil painting he’d commissioned.

As he unwrapped the costly artwork, she was probably expecting to see a portrait of her and Eamonn walking hand in hand down a County Antrim beach, or sat by the fireside with their adoring cocker spaniel.

Instead, Eamonn had asked the artist to paint him alongside Sir Alex Ferguson in the Old Trafford dugout, with Fergie’s arm resting on his shoulder to symbolise their unspoken bond.

FOOTBALL

👩‍👦Adrien if you don’t let maman and Mr Simeone talk, you’re going to get a smacked botty

“It’s unbearable”, complained a French football insider this week, when asked about dealing with Adrien Rabiot’s overbearing mother/agent, Veronique.

Rabiot has just joined Marseille’s island of misfit toys, but only after his maman pissed off half of Europe while touting him around this summer.

Atletico Madrid’s sporting director broke off talks because of Mme. Rabiot’s habit of phoning him to demand her son plays in his preferred position.

Another source complained: “He is advised by his mother… If he had been accompanied by a professional he would be in one of Europe’s top 10 clubs.”

In fairness, it’s nothing new. The Parisian battleaxe previously wrote to France manager Didier Deschamps demanding Adrien plays more often.

And when Kylian Mbappe missed a penalty for France, she told his father: “I hope you are going to scold him.”

FOOTBALL

🤼 The kids are alright

A big ol’ scrap kicked off between the parents at an under-10s football match in Sutton Coldfield.

💉 Quick hits

🧳 Former Arsenal striker Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been arrested for trying to smuggle 60kg of cannabis through Stansted Airport.

☀️ 28-year-old Anthony Martial has made a surprise move to AEK Athens. When he moved from Monaco to Man United, they agreed to pay the French club £7 million if he won the Ballon d’Or.

⌚ Oleskandr Usyk bought a fake Rolex for £100 on a Turkish beach.

AND FINALLY

🫶 Bor d’oh!

As Andy Carroll jets in to rescue recently-bankrupt Bordeaux, let’s hope he’s better at bullying fourth tier defences than he is at making a heart shape with his hands.

That's it for today.