This Tuesday and Wednesday in London, several hundred rare football collectibles are being sold by auction through auctioneer Graham Budd. Among the collection are rare medals, programmes, tickets and a treasure trove of football shirts, photographs and rare pieces of memorabilia.

Here are a few items that stood out for me:

• Nat Lofthouse England shirt from 1952,
• Ole Gunnar Solskjaer shirt signed by the 1995-96 Man United squad,
• 1916 photograph of the first ever USA national soccer team (pictured above),
• The original 1905 lease agreement between a landlord and Chelsea to acquire Stamford Bridge, and
• An oil painting with a portrait of BBC football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme (who was best known for the “Some people are on the pitch” phrase from the 1966 World Cup final).