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Jules Rimet CupPickles with owner Dave seenhere with Henry Cooper and thereward chequeReputedly made of solidgold, and worth around£30,000, the trophy hadbeen taken whilst a churchservice was underway inanother part of the building.A reward was offered of£6,000 for informationleading to the discovery ofthe cup as red-faced FootballAssociation representativesand Scotland Yard werebaffled as no-one appearedto have seen anything – noteven the two security guardsstationed in the hall. Therewere no clues to follow, onlya vague description of: “asuspicious-looking man…described as being in hisearly 30s, of average heightwith thin lips, greased blackhair and a possible scar onhis face.”Shortly after the trophy’sdisappearance the thievesgot in touch, demanding aransom of £15,000 for itssafe return. It was JoeMears, the then Chairman ofthe FA and Chelsea FC, whoreceived the ransom note bypost, together with the eightsidedtop of the cup.There then followed a “sting”operation by Scotland Yardto trap the thieves and a 47-year old dockworker wasapprehended. This gobetweennever divulged anydetails about the rest of thegang to the police, no otherswere charged in relation tothe crime and the trueidentity of the heist’smastermind remains amystery to this day.The security companyresponsible for the safety ofboth stamps and cup wasAlsa Security. Alsa’s mottowas an alert Alsatian dog,ironic then that just sevendays later, as the FA andScotland Yard chased theirtails, the irreplaceable trophywould be sniffed out byPickles: a mongrel pooch.“I was about to put the leadon Pickles, my mongrel dog,when I noticed he wassniffing at something nearthe path, I looked down andsaw a bundle. I picked it upand saw it was wrapped innewspaper... I tore the top offand saw gold and the words‘Brazil 1962’. I took it backindoors to show my wife. Icouldn’t believe it for a fewminutes; then I got into thecar and took it to the police.Pickles saw it first — hefound it, the little darling.”Dave Corbett speaking to The TimesAnd so it was Pickles’ keennose that discovered the cupbut how it ever found its wayto the bottom of that hedgeand who dropped it there, wewill probably never know.© ITV 20064
Pickles’ collar with medalsDave and Pickles werehonoured guests at the post-Final reception at the RoyalGarden Hotel in Kensingtonwhere ecstatic crowds notonly cheered their belovedteam but also Dave andPickles for their part in thesuccess of the tournament.Pickles was awarded manymedals for his enterprisingsnout: the National CanineDefence League’s SilverMedal, the World CupCollectors Club medal andone from the Italian CanineDefence League.Pickles would proudly wearsome of his medals on hiscollar for many years and,along with all he could eat,stardom beckoned when hewas offered a role in the film,The Spy With The ColdNose. Written by AlanSimpson and Ray Galton(Steptoe & Son), the film hada stellar British castincluding: Laurence Harvey,Lionel Jeffries, JuneWhitfiled, Eric Sykes andDenholm Elliot. Theproduction company had avery enterprising publicistwho thought Pickles’presence would be a goodidea to help publicise the film– and it was!Little is known of Pickles’other cinematic exploits, butmost likely bemused by allthe attention, this nationalhero just got on with doingwhat dogs like best until, inthe early 70s, he died:choking on his own collarwhilst chasing a cat up atree.After the events of March1966, Fifa secretlymanufactured a replica of thetrophy for use in post-matchcelebrations and otherevents.No one knows where theJules Rimet Cup is today as,in the early ‘80s, it wasstolen again and this time itwould not be discovered…The cup was commissionedfrom French sculptor AbelLafleur in 1929, in time forthe 1930 FIFA World Cupinaugural match held inUruguay. It was a statuetteof Nike, the ancient Greekgoddess of victory. Namedafter M. Jules Rimet:“founding father” and 3rdPresident of FIFA - the trophywas gold plated solid silver,mounted on a base of lapislazuli standing at 35 cm highand weighing around 3.8kilogrammes.During the 1930s the cupwas awarded three timesbefore the championshipswere halted for 12 years bythe Second World War.During this period it washidden in a shoebox underthe bed of the then ItalianVice-President Dr.OttorinoBarassi, to save it fromdiscovery by occupyingtroops.© ITV 20065
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