AN album depicting the 1966 Brazil World Cup team’s time at Lymm Hotel shows the players looking happy and relaxed but not enjoying being woken up by passing trains.

The world’s greatest player Pele and his Brazil team mates were hot favourites to win the competition when they stayed at the Whitbarrow Road hotel but crashed out at the group stage.

A Warrington football memorabilia collector bought the album at a Bonhams Knightsbridge auction in 2006 for £250.

The collector, who does not wish to be named, said: “I have been collecting memorabilia from the 1966 World Cup for about 10 years and my collection was briefly displayed at the Warrington Museum four years ago before I bought the album.

“I’ve read Pele’s autobiography and he said he enjoyed his stay in Warrington although some of the players were woken up by trains due to the line that used to pass by the hotel.”

Amongst pictures of the team, there is also a picture of a woman, who the collector believes could have put the album together, and kids getting autographs from one of the Brazilian stars.

Tickets from Brazil’s games at Everton football club’s ground Goodison Park are also in the album as well as a Portuguese postcard wishing the team all the best and hoping it is not too noisy at the hotel for Brazil forward Tostao to sleep!

A schedule, put up in the hotel, with the team’s daily routine during the build-up to their first game against Bulgaria was also included in the album.

The timetable included trips to Bolton for training and Everton to get a look at the ground before their game before it was lights out or ‘silencio’ at 11pm each night.

Do you know or recognise the woman in the photograph or perhaps you were one of the young boys jostling for an autograph?

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