When football came home in 1966, England suffered international embarrassment when the Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen from an exhibition in London. The trophy was later recovered by the dog Pickles, one of history's goodest boys, but nobody knows who stole it and where it went during that time!

The Trophy seems rather coveted as it was stolen again from Rio De Janeiro in 1983, never to be found. Has it been melted down or destroyed, or could it still be out there, waiting for a canine detective to discover it once more?

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Sources and further reading:

Guardian article about the Brazil theft: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jun/13/world-cup-mystery-what-happened-jules-rimet-trophy

Where we did calculations for inflation: https://www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1966?amount=15000

Article detailing what happened when the trophy was stolen in England: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/england-loses-world-cup

Guardian article from man who claims his uncle stole the trophy: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/24/world-cup-theft-gangster-and-brother-stole-trophy-in-1966

Wikipedia entry on the Trophy itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup_Trophy#Jules_Rimet_Trophy