A Premier League winners award thrown in to the throng by Jose Mourinho fetched �16,800 at auction today.
Mourinho won the award for heading Chelsea to the joining pretension in the 2005/06 season.
He was presented with it moments after he hurled an additional winners award and his coupler to gay fans celebrating Chelseas 3-0 win over Manchester United.
At the time Mourinho said: The award was for everyone but I think the chairman in the throng who got the award is a propitious man who goes home with a illusory mental recall or goes to eBay and creates a fortune.
In 2008 Bonhams noted the managers difference offered the initial award for �21,600 on interest of a Chelsea fan.
But todays auction saw Mourinho left in the shade by an additional footballing great, Stanley Matthews.
The boots he wore in the 1953 FA Cup Final, where the Blackpool wingers opening was so superb the diversion became well known as the Matthews Final, sole for �38,400.
That was well on top of an guess of in between �6,000 and �8,000 at Bonhams Sporting and Golf Memorabilia sale in Chester.
The 1953 last saw Stan Mortensen grab Wembleys initial FA Cup last hat-trick as Blackpool kick Bolton 4-3.
Also today, a bullion award awarded to Boltons Jimmy Seddon at the 1923 FA Cup Final, the initial football compare to be played at Wembley Stadium, was sole for �8,640.
Two of Seddons England caps, one from 1927 and the alternative from 1928/9, done �864 and �1,056 respectively.
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