The daughter of a 70s football star has spoken of the family rift after she sold his FA Cup winner's medal.

Mrs Mandy Lane, of Oxford Road, Lostock, sparked outrage in Southampton when the city's football fans learned she had sold her father Peter Rodrigues' 1976 winner's medal for £10,200.

Mr Rodrigues was captain of the Saints side which beat Manchester United in a shock 1-0 win at Wembley.

Since then the retired footballer has become a legend in the city and was furious when he learned of his daughter's plans to part with his cup winner's medal.

The medal was finally sold at auction in Northampton on Friday when Southampton FC chairman Rupert Lowe paid more than £10,000 for it and plans to display it at the club.

Mrs Lane, the eldest of Mr Rodrigues' three children, was given the medal by her father as a gift on her wedding day 14 years ago.

"It was completely out of the blue because at the time he had a six-year-old son and I had assumed it would go to him," said Mrs Lane, aged 36.

"It was very special to him and was to me at the time."

The marriage failed and for the last 14 years the medal has been in a drawer at Mrs Lane's home.

Although she liked to show it to visitors she feared that putting it on show would make it a target for thieves. Her parents separated when she was 11 years old and she came to live in Bolton with her mum, only keeping in contact with her dad at big family gatherings.

Unable to decide which of her own two children or three step children she should pass the medal on to, Mrs Lane decided it would be better to sell the medal and use the cash to help do up the home she shares with the children and second husband Mark, whom she married earlier this year.

But her decision infuriated her father.

"A couple of weeks before the auction he rang me. He said 'if you sell that medal I want nothing more to do with you,'"she said.

"Obviously the medal means more to him than his daughter.

"I have never had a close relationship with dad. He left my mum to bring us up.

"Although Southampton is proud of him for holding a cup winners' medal I wasn't proud of him as a dad. He never gave me any support.

"He is this hero down there but he isn't my hero." Mrs Lane has not spoken to her dad since and he was said to be "devastated" when the sale went ahead.

He had tried unsuccessfully to retrieve it before it went under the hammer.

Although she is not close to her dad and her sister Tanya Lee, who took her dad's side in the row, Mandy says her decision to sell was supported by her mum and her husband Mark.

She admits she is not looking forward to family gatherings in future.

But she said: "I am pleased it is going to go where it will be appreciated," she said.

Mr Rodrigues declined to comment.