Alan Shearer nearly threw away Diego Simone’s Argentina shirt from infamous David Beckham red card game

There weren't many positives to take from England’s 1998 World Cup defeat to Argentina, unless you’re Alan Shearer’s son.

The match in Saint-Etienne was won by the South American side after yet another dire England shoot-out, but the Three Lions were a man down due to one of the most controversial moments of David Beckham’s career.

The then-Manchester United megastar was involved in a tangle with Diego Simeone, and was sent off for kicking out at the Argentine midfielder.

Shearer was one of those left fuming at the transgression, refusing to talk to Beckham in the dressing room post-match.

Now, though, he’s revealed he wasn’t too upset with Simeone, as he even managed to snag his shirt.

And he still has it… although, as he revealed on The Rest is Football Podcast, he very nearly made a very expensive mistake.

“I’ve actually got Simeone’s shirt from that game," said the England icon.

“I was moving house a couple of years ago and I said to my son, ‘I don’t know what’s in the loft but I can’t get up there now, you’re going to have to go up there for me’, and he came down with two black bin bags full of old tops.

“I said, ‘I’m just going to chuck them’, because I was frustrated, ‘just chuck them in a skip, I don’t want them’. But he said, ‘you can’t chuck them out dad!’

“He went through them all and Simeone’s top was in there and he’s got that now.

«In the current climate he’s probably sat on an absolute fortune, the way tops are selling nowadays.

»I might ask for it back off of him now!”

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