You need to have more confidence in what you do.. I counted 6 times you either apologised for the video content or assumed we were laughing at you for choosing this subject to make a video on.. This is 100% fraud. If it was anything else, and people were selling a fake product, they would be investigated. This is a massive market and people are taking advantage. You were right about the clubs needing to do more. If they all took the tiny step of marking each shirt with an individual number, thousands of auction houses would lose all their customers and profit overnight. Sadly, where there is money to be made, there are scammers right behind. Good luck in your future purchases Ellis!!!

I have one match worn shirt and it’s my pride and joy of clothing. It’s a 10th tier Wells City shirt. I got the shirt sent to me from the club for free all the way to America, they also sent me a match day program signed by the players and coaching staff, did a “fans abroad” section about me in their program, and got me an interview on BBC Points West. The club isn’t a big club with tons of supporters but it’s hands down my favorite shirt with a great story behind it

You are right about the NHL having label sewn into the bottom hem of the game worn jerseys..... To my knowledge, there is only one company that does game worn jersey auctions, and they are directly associated with the NHL to assure their authenticity

Glad to see you’ve came out with this video, the matchworn space seems to be really dodgy and that’s why I haven’t got any intentions of buying matchworn shirts in the future. Hope you’ve woken up many people.

It's nice being a hockey jersey collector and having the team's tagging system in place, whether it's through MeiGray or through the individual teams. One area I have seen that is lacking is team issued jerseys will still have the game worn tag. Sometimes equipment managers will mark that they are not worn. Another issue in the hockey space is the stripping of jerseys. Because the on-ice jerseys aren't available at retail, low end player jerseys or prospect jerseys will end up stripped of the numbers in favor of a more established player. In these cases, it's kind of an honor system, where it falls on the person altering the jersey to remove the game worn tag and prevent confusion. So even despite the relative safety of game worn hockey jerseys, there are still issues and photomatching is important!

If you have the means (given your connections in the shirt space etc.), I'd try and set up a shirt-specific auction site which only lists shirts that can be definitively proven to be real. You'd probably be able to use your reputation as a scam-exposer to get it off the ground.

Didnt know Ellis was allowed to not wear a football shirt in a video

It’s not just match worn you know. Roma Shirts did an amazing video on CFS as well where they applied new printing to an old shirt in order to make a bigger profit because it had a #10 Totti name set. I’ve had the same thing happen to me when buying from them as well where they applied the standard replica print to a Vaporknit Messi shirt. The prints are different and the shirt would never come with the replica print unless they applied it. I know they’re a sponsor so there won’t be a video on this issue but they are scamming people.

Finished the video and realised I didn't pick up a single thing you said. I was too busy staring at all those faces on your shirt. Need to watch it again

Come to Ireland for shirt hunting

I feel like BBC3 would pick this up if you pitched to them about doing a full on TV show about the murky side of sports memorabilia scams and how people are getting conned. They could get you the foot in the door to speak with auction houses about their verification steps.

Ngl looks weird not seeing you in a football shirt

I really get bored of seeing fake matchworn shirts.Thanks ellis for the incredible video👏🏻

Hey Ellis, When are you going to make a video on Classic Football Shirts new scam, where they add player numbers and names onto older shirts. Other KZfaqrs have made comments on this, and you see this most clearly on Glasgow Rangers, where they somehow have sourced van Bronckhorst shirts brand new for the 98 season, for example.

I have a match-worn Manchester United Fred shirt which I received directly from the player after a Manchester Derby. ( without a sign because I'm not a wrongun ). Scrolled through 100's of photos of the game to try and photomatch it for proof but unable to find one, not looking to sell it but just wanted to have a photomatch as evidence but oh well. Great video Ellis, still no word back from the *ALLEGED* scammer who may or may not be called Rony Lopes?

You raise some really good points mate, think much more can be done to prove authenticity

I’ve had to do some crazy contacting and researching for the ones I collect and it’s making me tempted to photo match just in case also as some I’m still not convinced with luckily I’ve spent a fair amount (I wouldn’t say LOTS) but I think this does go deeper than you think and something needs to be separated from player issue player prepared and worn to make it fairer and easier so people don’t get scammed

At the end of the day Ellis any auction house is pretty much in for themselves. As long as they get their percentage they probably wont care. Their just the middle men from the seller to the buyer, cars are the same way. You are taking all the risk. The COA's can be very tricky I agree with you that its insane on their part they dont do some of the leg work researching the item as well. I still believe at least on your Messi shirt debacle that he needs to send back your Aguero that's absurd to me

Love the videos ❤️❤️❤️

Really interesting video, hopefully the space for matchworn shirt gets better but I doubt it

Ronnie has unleashed a monster.

Buddy stand on your stuff man your doing excellent research and know your stuff!! I think an auction house would entertain you assisting or speaking to them because it would lend a ton of credibility to the site, especially if you can attest to the authentication process for that site. If they don't then guess what they are frauds as well. Do your thing man and don't be ashamed or belittle yourself!!

Email channel 4, definitely a documentary worthy idea

Time for an undercover sting operation posing as a worker at an auction house 😅

Great video again can't believe the jump from issue to match worn 🚜🚜🚜🔵⚪️🔵⚪️ how much is world Cup winning match worn or European Cup final match worn 🚜🚜🚜🔵⚪️🔵🔵⚪️

Go on Ellis! This has a feature length documentary written all over it!

As soon as I went on this video I knew it was going to be a banger

You would love the shirts from Montpellier in France, the historical president of the club was a big shirt collector so decided to put a unique patch on every match shirt with the opponent team, best way to know if the shirt is genuine

I only have 1 match worn shirt in my collection. It’s a James Lawrence St Pauli shirt from a charity auction he was involved in. Seems the only way to know if a match worn shirt is actually match worn is to get it directly from the player or something they’re involved in.

Nice content. Thank you for the effort and time.

First Time ever seeing u not wearing a football shirt. But i love that one

Would love to see a video of you investigating and trying to photomatch some "matchworn" shirts for sale online! Would be interesting and no doubt dramatic

Loving the outfit Ellis😂😍

I still don’t understand how these so called professionals/collectors buy items with very little/no proof of authenticity for thousands of pounds and think it’s a sound investment. I mean, you deserve to get scammed if you’re comfortable buying an item of that price with so little authenticity. I’m not surprised criminals have jumped onto this seeing the naivety from the industry.

Not me watching Ellis whilst going through Gatwick Airport

Ellis’ revenge arc has begun!

Matchwornshirt.com are the only 100% auctions I would trust! At least for the ones I’ve brought through them they receive them directly from the club and each club has a profile on there website sort of like an eBay shop where they can list at any time through there website. There matchwornshirt.com regulate it and provide a COA & a sticker added to the label inside the jersey to verify it

My lad used to wait where players parked their cars on match days and ask them for their shirt after the match, tal ben haim said that if Portsmouth was winning at half time he can have it. At half time Portsmouth was winning and my lad shouted to tal, who promptly took off his shirt and gave it too my lad.

are you going to make a video about trying to get a refund on the messi "worn" shirt?

Nike is pronounced (Nike-E)… Sincerely an American. Love the vids

Just go to sports direct and buy a normal shirt and get it printed, that's what I do now since the market for proper shirts is ruined by scammers. 21st century and scammers are everywhere, then I use the cash I saved to travel to games and try to get shirts signed by my favourite players.

I got a france 2000 long sleeve shirt with number 6 and no name on back and I don't now it is player prepared or something else?

Players will also switch shirts at half… making photo matching all the more difficult

Did anyone just look at the shirt Ellis is wearing rather than the content 😂

Nothing About the video, but can you say where you got your shirt, I love it as it is so cool.

I would love a matchworn shirt but shirts are usually murky place to enter

Got a matchworn yaya toure and clichy 16-17 shirt and a ederson pre prepared 17-18 shirt how u reckon they sell for

Hey Ellis just wondering did you ever get your money and aguero shirt back or not

Ome day Ellis will poke himself in the eye doing his outro and in some psychopathic way I can't wait for it.

Ellis, I deal in memorabilia . Rule 101 never ever ever buy anything signed related etc from an auction. Trust me.

When is the Paris video dropping Ellis?

I've seen loads of "matchworn" shirts that i would be interested in. Ask the seller what game and they almost always respond with "I'm not sure, got given it or bought it".

I’m not used to seeing you in something that isn’t a football shirt or jumper. I had assumed you didn’t own regular clothes.

Here after the weekend video went live... The Messi shirt is player prepared and we were clickbaited

Ellis mate, there's a documentary in this. You should persevere.

If messi got a dirt mark on the side of his kit and then got a new shirt at half time and then got a new dirt mark Does that change anything Can he not change shirts at half time meaning multiple at different games Or even why not wear multiple shirts over different games ?

Sees title (insert England fans at the pub gif)

Where did you get the shirt that you are wearing. I need that!!!

Amazing video

i have a few match worn jerseys from a few teams in the usl championship given directly from me from the players i would never sell them

Do you have a David silva man city shirt match worn or signed ?

I know I’m late to the party but players also sometimes wear multiple jerseys/pants during a match and some are match-work but washed afterwards. Also, match-worn tags are great however, they can be faked.

I have a Jermaine Defoe match worn shirt against palace. Now I’m worried 😂

Glad my MW shirts come from players from the 90s. I'd hate to be a modern day collector because proving MW nowadays days is virtually impossible

what is your opinion about matchwornshirts company ? i mean they offering coa.

I think you really need to consider the likelihood that large portions of the selling is potentially money laundering. As you have demonstrated here, genuine shirt collectors - the type that would spend nearly 10K on a shirt, understand provenance, authenticity and supporting evidence. Lay on lookers don't and likely represents and easy market to exploit - especially given how "global" football is. Art, antiques and sports memorabilia have been popular markets to do this in for the values items go for and general secrecy surrounding purchasing and as such don't have great regulatory oversight. So whilst there's probably people being scammed, I trust most authentic collectors will do five minutes of due diligence before putting down 10k.

Can we talk about how fire that shirt is !

If the Chinese can fake a 15k Rolex that is impossible to detect, they can do a footy kit!

The shirts are most of the time stolen by people from the clubs. There is no chance for a signed proof because who would sign a letter that says "sorry I have stolen that shirt" COA are worthless the source is important and Photomatch. Player like Messi and CR7 always swap their shirts there is no shirt left in 99% of all their matches. Only few come up from players who swapped them before. All others are fake. The aguero shirt was fake too. It had a commercial nameset

Ellis, how do you know that your Bamford shirt is matchworn and not Match prepared? =)

What happened in Paris? Need to see what deals were made

Wait til they start faking match worn tags in shirts hahah

Ellis I have a match worn Shane Long shirt from when Man City beat us 1-0 on the final day, I know it’s mw cause he gave it too me (vid evidence). How much would it be worth?

Where is that shirt your wearing from?

get at them Ellis

why i dont touch them with a barge pole! nice vid as usual

I got rashfords jersey last night at Melbourne victory vs Manchester United

Sadly it's still a problem with NHL jerseys people just fake the inserts

I’m curious as to whether Classic Football Shirts is capable of doing more given their standing within the industry.

Ellis, please link us the button down shirt you are wearing. I need it

Quality video, opening up people's eyes to prevent them from falling for the same tricks, it is appreciated!

Can't wait to see your purchase

why cant nike have something on the patch with the product code on have something to say match warn

Hey ellis I still got the yellow dortmund shirt I brought off u never wear it I keeps it in with my other shirts

Hey Ellis you ok just want to ask you why don't u try Paris in football shirt hunting and get a psg shirt

That’s exactly why I would never spend $1000s on a shirt, happy with my little growing collection which I can wear when I want but would never overpay, madness in my opinion for something you will likely never wear anyway just my point of view

Interesting video but the shirt is the part I have more questions about.

Where there is a market to sell there is a market to scam always has been always will be

Go to the Netherlands with shirt hunting!!! 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱

I emailed you a while ago about a shirt do you not check yours ???

Does anyone have information for a person who can restore peeling shirt numbers on retro shirts please?

Tbh I just stick with signed shirts and that’s hard enough! Unless a player handed me their shirt personally I would be too scared to get involved haha

Come to denmark and there is so many second hand and cheap

There should be a footballshirt with the design ur shirt has!

This should get major coverage on all football related media pages. Clubs need to be made aware that their brand is being used to scam large sums of money so they can take action against this.

any update in ronnie?

Open a business only selling and buying 100% proven match worn shirts. I know it is expensive to start up but that would be insane

I just think that in reality there would only be a handful of Messi worn shirts out there. Most players that he would give a shirt to after a game would probably keep them. He also keeps the special ones and the rest probably gives away and no one is selling those unless they are in a pinch.But it would be rare, there shouldn't be hundreds of Messi shirts out there.

Your shirt looks like a shindie (lpool) cardboard drawn sign it’s sick

Surely at this point, Messi can be made aware of your story? Whatever the kids do these days ....start a hash tag or something!?