Neil Webb sells his prized possession

Midfielder Neil Webb joined Manchester Utd in 1989, and spent two-and-a-half seasons at Old Trafford before rejoining Nottingham Forest. While with the Red Devils, he won the League Cup and UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup, and set up the winner in the 1990 FA Cup final against Crystal Palace.

Since hanging up his boots in 1997, the 46-year-old has worked as a programme seller at the Madejski Stadium, a postman and a forklift truck operator. He has auctioned off much of the memorabilia from his career to raise extra cash, and his FA Cup winners’ medal will go under the hammer next week with an estimated price of £8,000-£10,000.

Webb, who obviously holds little regard for nostalgia, said:

“I don’t want my lads (he has two sons) to fight over them and this way they get to enjoy the benefits of them now. It’s obviously a very hard thing for me to do as they mean a lot to me, but I have got the DVDs of all the games I was involved in. The medals are great fun to have, but it’s time to let other people get enjoyment from them as well.”

If you fancy owning a medal that you didn’t earn, head to Cameo Auctioneers in Midgham next Tuesday. You ought not to have too much competition - the same medal was expected to reach £6,000 at auction in London last year, but it failed to reach its reserve price.

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Indistinct terraced house to be sold for normal amount

For some football memorabilia collectors, an autograph just isn’t enough. Two people - an Australian and an Arab - are apparently willing to pay up to £1m for a Leytonstone house in which David Beckham once lived.

Despite this impressive price for a home on a road where the average property price is around £220,000, the owner, Iftakar Mahmood, has shown a woeful misunderstanding of economics by asking for just £215,000:

DAVID Beckham’s “£1 million” childhood home will now be auctioned for just £215,000.

Despite boasts from agent Colin Evans that he received firm offers close to the seven figure mark, the

Scorned beauty cashes in on relationship with Jermaine Pennant

For the past few years, the romance between Page Three girl Amii Grove and Jermaine Pennant has been a little ‘tumultuous’. The blonde beauty dumped the ‘Kop Love rat’ in 2007 after she caught him doing it with another lady on his own CCTV security system, but took him back late last year when he proposed to her in a graveyard.

The engagement, however, ended recently and Pennant has fled back to his former love, Hollyoaks star Jennifer Metcalfe. In order to cast aside the painful memories, she has decided to sell her £38k diamond engagement ring on eBay.

The 2.05 carat ring, which has received bids of £20,502 at the time of writing, appears to have been posted by Amii on her personal eBay account. Unfortunately,

Footballers swap boots for paintbrushes for a good cause

Cesc Fabregas, age 21

Several Premier League stars have given up the brief space between training and nap time (that is usually occupied by story time) in order to discover their artistic side. The Willow Foundation, a charity that helps organise special days for the seriously ill, have produced 300 small canvases, each of which has been decorated by a sportsman or celebrity of some sort.

Frank Lampard, age 30 1/2

The canvases are being auctioned for charity right now, and would make a great Christmas present for difficult-to-buy-for relatives, or lovers of “Outsider Art”.

Click through to see some more samples…

Kiwi opportunist flogs half-finished grub on auction website

Where once fans were satisfied by their favourite star scribbling enigmatically on a scrap of paper, now they want bodily fluids, DNA samples and even pieces of their potatoes.

When a New Zealand girl saw David Beckham leaving his unfinished dinner on the table at a branch of Nandos in Wellington this week, she swooped. And her loot – a half-eaten corn cob and a bottle of Coke with “some Coke left inside” – is now available to buy on Kiwi auction website Trade Me, along with a single chip the great man is alleged to have dropped in the street.

At the time of writing, the top bid for the chip is a meagre US$4.50, but frenzied interest from the international stalking community has taken the corn cob to US$80.00 and the Coke bottle to a not inconsiderable US$159.00.

While the seller fends off accusations of contamination by assuring prospective buyers that the items are meticulously sealed inside plastic bags, Beckham will probably be hoping the news doesn’t find its way to his generous patrons at Pepsi.