A SOCCER fan has snapped up a piece of footie history.
The buyer paid £8,460 for Frank Worthington's Golden Boot.
The award - up for sale at an auction in Cheshire - was sold yesterday and went for just above the expected minimum price of £8,000.
There were hopes it could fetch as much as £12,000.
The Adidas Golden Boot was presented to former Town and England striker Frank in 1979 as top goalscorer in the then First Division, now The Premiership.
His 24 goals for Bolton Wanderers gave him the award, just ahead of Liverpool's Kenny Dalglish.
The colourful and flamboyant Worthington - now 56 - first put the boot up for sale on internet auction site eBay last November.
But it failed to reach its £15,500 reserve price.
Frank, of Outlane, delighted thousands of fans in a career spanning 882 games.
