England football legend Jimmy Greaves (picture) is selling his 1966 World Cup winner’s medal, five years after he received it following a campaign to honour the entire squad.

The 74-year-old originally missed out on a medal because he was injured during the tournament’s group stage, and back then only the 11 winning players on the pitch at the end of the final received the award.

A campaign led to football’s governing body Fifa changing its heart in 2007, paving the way for England’s reserves to be honoured.

The World Cup squad players and the families of team manager Sir Alf Ramsey and other backroom staff were finally presented with medals by then-prime minister Gordon Brown at a reception at Downing Street in 2009.

But now Greaves – the forgotten hero of 1966 after he was replaced by Sir Geoff Hurst, who scored a hat-trick in the final’s 4-2 victory over West Germany – has put his medal up for auction at Sotheby’s next week.

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