This is the shocking moment a mother grabbed a football hero's shirt out of the hands of an eight-year-old fan - hours before it appeared on sale for £1,500.
Ted Dockray, eight, managed to catch Jermaine Beckford's jersey as he threw it towards a group of children in the stands at Wembley Stadium after scoring a hat-trick for Preston North End.
But the boy's joy then turned to despair when an unknown woman wrestled it from him, in the 71st minute of Preston's 4-0 victory over Swindon Town in the League One play-off final yesterday.
Beckford has now called on the woman who grabbed the match shirt to return it to the eight-year-old boy.
Ted, who lives in Failsworth, Manchester, and attended the game with his family, was said to be 'in bits' and ran towards his father Martin after the woman seemed to grab the shirt for her daughter.
The family had gone to north-west London to watch his ten-year-old brother Leo play in a schools' championship. His aunt Helen Dockray spoke of his sadness to the Lancashire Evening Post.
Culled from:Dailymail
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