Last gum Sir Alex Ferguson chewed available for sale on Ebay for £105,500

After 1,500 games, and tens of thousands of bits of gum, someone thinks they have nabbed the final bit of chewing gum Fergie ever gnashed on. So they have put it up for sale.

We’re more than a little sceptical about this one but even if it is a joke, it is a very well crafted one. Someone on eBay is claiming that this beautifully presented piece of used chewing gum is the final one ever used by Alex Ferguson in a match.

Chewing gum during games was almost as much a part of the Fergie persona as volcanic temper tantrums, watch watching and hoovering up trophies. Now, for the current low, low price of £28, you can own what the seller says is ‘rumoured’ to be a piece of gum from his final match in charge of Manchester United at West Brom yesterday.




Quite how or indeed why it has made its way onto Ebay is open for debate, but what is purported to be the very last piece of gum chewed by masticator supreme Sir Alex Ferguson before his retirement from managing could very soon be yours if you're willing to stump up the cash.

Apparently, Fergie's chewing gum was somehow retrieved from The Hawthorns after being spat out by United's outgoing overlord following his final game before retirement against West Brom on Sunday.

The gum, now proudly sat atop a velvet cushion and housed in a plush perspex presentation case, has been placed on the online auction site. By Monday afternoon, the highest of 98 bids was 105,500 pounds.

The listing reads thus:

"Used chewing gum: RARE. Recovered from The Hawthorns. Clear perspex/wooden case. Unofficial merchandise, rumoured to belong to Sir Alex.

"After 1,500 games of intense chewing as manager of Man Utd, here lies Fegie's (sic) last piece of chewing gum. All proceeds go to the MU Foundation charity.

"Happy bidding."

So it might not even be Fergie's gum after all? What a bargain. That said, if some dunce out there is willing to fork out £105,500 for a piece of unidentified, dried chewing gum, then who are we to stop them?

At least all the money goes to United's charity.


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