When you collect football memorabilia, it pays to have a keen eye. Gavin Boyd collects classic World Cup footballs, and when he saw an Adidas Telstar Durlast from the 1974 tournament for sale in a recent online auction, he knew something wasn't right.
"There was a ball they said was from the 1974 World Cup, a Telstar Durlast, but it wasn't from the '74 World Cup," Boyd tells Bleacher Report. "There was a slight difference. The same ball was used in 1976, and it was actually a 1976 ball that was being advertised. The letters of the word 'Adidas' are slightly bigger, and the words 'made in France' are more over to the right of the panel than central.