‘What the effin’ hell do you think we’re going to do with that?’ How the World Cup was stolen

Television: Who Stole the World Cup?, about the theft of the Jules Rimet trophy, features honest, decent criminals, lairy coppers and Del Boy–style narration

McLarens, who speaks in a crystal-clear Canadian accent – the result of half a lifetime in North America – is one of several characters who feel drawn from fiction. He was a party animal in swinging London who had a bit part in Monty Python’s Flying Circus and whose flat became a drop-in centre for badly behaved rock stars. “One day there’s Keith Moon in a spacesuit. He had a star in his forehead,” he remembers of one such bash.

Who Stole the World Cup?: photographers take pictures of Pickles, the dog who sniffed out the missing Jules Rimet World Cup trophy. Photograph: Central Press/Getty But what about the thieves themselves? A Daily Mirror reporter, Tom Pettifor, identifies the ringleader as Sidney Cugullere, a career criminal hired to steal the stamps from that exhibition and who decided to make off with the World Cup for good measure. “What the effin’ hell do you think we’re going to do with that?” exclaimed his brother Reg after Sid showed him the Jules Rimet tucked inside his coat. They had no answer – and then the cup mysteriously turned up under a bush in south London.

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