Last month we noted the phenomenon of Keeptember, a month where player worn goalie jerseys littered the eBay listings, and also the potential for a Keeptober, as many ‘keeper jerseys listed in September were due to end in the tenth month. Let’s look at what you could have won… (Writes Mike Carter – @MikeyCarter90)

It’s quite fitting that the first, and oldest entry in this month’s Auction Action is a jersey worn by a goalkeeper. This grey 1989/90 jersey by Matchwinner has number one on the back is likely to have been worn by Iain Hesford. City started the season with shirts bearing the word ‘Humberside’, as chairman Don Robinson tried to schmooze the local council, a hugely unpopular move for fans who considered themselves as East Yorkshire-folk, and a few months into the season a deal was done with local dairy firm Dale Farm, who’s logo was added to the shirts. Even though the shirt had a high starting price of £245, it still attracted two bidders who pushed the final price to £266.51.

The next match-worn ‘keeper jersey available was a ‘coral’ 2017/18 jersey worn by David Marshall. Any time a match-worn shirt sells for sub-£100 it feels like a bargain has been had, and this one just drops into that price range at £94. The auction finished just 7 minutes before kick-off of City’s home game with Wigan, which shows the level of commitment up to 6 bidders (and 28 bids) made to secure the shirt, with numbers like that it was clearly sought after!

Another David Marshall jersey was soon available in Keeptober and it proved even more of a bargain than the first. This 2018/19 green goalkeeper top sold for £79.12, an absolute snip! This one shocked me as I saw it finish, I was fully expecting it to surpass the final price of the coral jersey, but in fact it fell almost £20 short.

Poppy shirt time is drawing near, and last month we covered a blue 2013/14 away shirt with the remembrance appliqué that sold. Another went in October, and this one once belonged to former Irish International David Meyler. Regular readers of Auction Action will know that almost the whole batch was bought by a Californian sports memorabilia trader who proceeded to ask for more than £1000 for each of them. Naturally, they didn’t sell for that, but some enterprising collectors made repeated offers and eventually repatriated some of the poppy shirts. After holding several for just shy of nice years, the seller listed them as a low price auctions, and the Meyler shirt sold for around £89.81 before postage and import tax were applied.

A second shirt issued for a remembrance fixture went under the digital hammer last month, with an eBay listing for a 2021/22 home shirt issued to Alfie Jones. This one sold for £120 (or best offer) which is close to what the shirt originally sold for on behalf of the RBL.

Another 2021/22 home shirt, this time issued to Andy Cannon for City’s FA Cup Round Three fixture against Everton that was screened on the BBC. Cannon was an unused substitute for the game, but the shirt carries some mud stains which suggests some high intensity warming up occurred in it, or mud from other shirts was transferred when it went in the laundry hamper. Featuring the FA Cup patch on one sleeve and a one-off Willerby Caravans patch on the other, it was listed at £120 or best offer and looks to have sold for the full asking price.

It’s been a while since a 1992/93 home shirt sold for close to £500. In fact, it was February 2022. Since then we’ve seen them sell for as low as £235. However this one in XL finished at £482.14 after 12 bidders placed 34 bids. Maybe there is still some life in the old dog yet…

I found this listing very interesting for a few reasons. Yes, it’s a 1992/93 home shirt, however it has no sponsor on the front. You can tell from the condition that it hasn’t been removed, it just didn’t have one. To some people this may put them off, but to me this makes the shirt more appealing. It was selling for sub £100 heading into the final moments, but it rocketed up to £230 by the time the virtual auction hammer fell on this listing. I don’t know if that is a good sale price of not, as there isn’t anything to compare it to. One point I will make is that the listing ended just before kick off as City played Birmingham. Sellers should probably note end times when creating listings, because they’re potentially creating barriers for some of their target audience.

Next up we have another pair, this time it is 1993/94 away shirts. The first one is a size small and sold for £115. The second 1993/94 away shirt is a size medium and sold for £113. Two prices very close, for two shirts of similar size. I think we have found a good average for these two.

This 1995/97 home shirt was listed at £125 with the best offer feature active. The shirt is a size large and was sold via an offer.

The 1999/00 home shirt was the first that you could buy as a long-sleeved replica. We have covered these in the past and naturally prices vary: in July 2022 a large sold for £40 and in September 2022 another large sold for £84.99. This time the shirt was size XL and was listed at £99.99 before selling via the best offer feature.

The 2015/16 ‘blueprint and scuba blue’ third is a shirt that has sold well on the resale market, so when this was listed at £24 for an XXL shirt as a buy it now, it was never going to be around long, and it wasn’t.

The 2014/15 away shirt is a thing of beauty. I’m not quite sure we can say the same about Tom Ince’s performances whilst at City, but regardless this shirt in XXL, with Premier League competition patches and personalised with Ince, #23 sold for £40.

Tom Huddlestone signed for City ahead of the 2013/14 season, and to some is the finest player to grace the KC/KCOM/MKM stadium for City. This 2013/14 away shirt by adidas in medium, printed up with Huddlestone #8 sold for a highly reasonable £18.

We’ll wrap up with an oddity, and by oddity we mean knock off… This ‘adidas Originals’ mock up is quite something, with it’s patched on tri-line number. It’s hard to believe someone paid £70 for this Frankenstein’s monster of a garment, but then someone else paid £92 for it when it was sold on. Crikey! As ever… caveat emptor!