Guinness Book of Records book toasts continued success after 60 years

Sixty years ago today, if Swede Hans Jeppson wanted to toast the appearance of his name in the first Guinness Book of Records using the most expensive bottle of wine commercially available, he would have had to spend a staggering £8 on a 1949 Feinste Trockenbeeren Auslese, a white wine from the Rhine Valley.

Soccer player Jeppson, we assume, could afford it, having appeared in the book when transferred from Napoli to Genoese Atalanta for a headline-grabbing fee of stg £60,375.

That figure seems laughable nowadays, put in context by the fact it is a fraction of the weekly wages of modern soccer superstars.