McDermott to sell cup medals

LONDON: Liverpool great Terry McDermott is selling his three European Cup winners’ medals just days before his former club look set to appear in the Champions League final.The 66-year-old former England midfielder will also put up for sale five league winners medals and his player awards at British auction house Sotheby’s on May 22, according to Britain’s Sun newspaper. McDermott won both the Professional Footballers’ Association and Football Writers’ Association awards in 1980. Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah, who won the FWA award on Tuesday, has emulated that feat this season.McDermott, who scored the opener in Liverpool’s 1977 European Cup final win over Borussia Moenchengladbach and was pivotal in the 1978 and 1981 wins over Bruges and Real Madrid, said he does not need the money.

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