Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright has expressed his dismay after discovering a hoard of his playing memorabilia sold off by debt collectors in America.

Around 500 items from Wright's garlanded career - including signed shirts, goal of the month trophies and his This Is Your Life red book - are now up for sale on an online auction after being purchased anonymously for £7 million.

The collection was re-possessed after Wright's first wife Deborah failed to keep up payments on a storage unit in Orlando, Florida.

Wright told The Sun: “It's a sad situation when you have been trying for so long to get your memorabilia back and then find out it’s turned up in a lock-up in America which has now been repossessed.

“It's just really sad that it has come to this.”