Tim Cahill

Check the first name before you buy

A search for Cahill returns 15 items dated between 2005 and 2018, and they cover two different footballers. Twelve belong to Tim Cahill: five Everton shirts with #17, five Australia shirts with #4 and two Jamshedpur shirts from 2018-19, again with #17. The other three do not. A 2014-15 Chelsea home shirt with #24 and two England match issue shirts with #5, from 2012 and 2013, carry the name of Gary Cahill, the England centre-back born on 19 December 1985 who joined Chelsea from Bolton in January 2012. The surname is the only thing the two men share.

What the Tim Cahill items actually cover

Tim Cahill was born on 6 December 1979 and scored 50 goals in 108 caps between 2004 and 2018, making him Australia’s all-time leading scorer. The Everton shirts here run from 2005-06 to 2011-12, which matches his spell at the club from 2004 to 2012, and the Australia shirts come from just two kit cycles, 2006-08 and 2018-20. His Millwall years, including the 2000-01 Second Division title and the 2004 FA Cup final, are not represented at all, and neither are his seasons with New York Red Bulls, Shanghai Shenhua, Hangzhou Greentown or Melbourne City. The two Jamshedpur shirts mark the very end of his career, in the Indian Super League.

Condition and format

Seven of the fifteen items are home shirts, three away and three third; two are match issue, meaning they were prepared for a specific fixture rather than sold in a shop. Condition grades run from 6 to 9 out of 10, with a median of 7. That scale describes visible wear, not whether a shirt is wearable.