Bet you didn't know that the original Jules Rimet Trophy was stolen in 1966 in London from a Stamp exhibition? 

Well, several days of anxiety and frustration followed the Cup's theft, as you can imagine.

Brazil said it was a sacrilege that would never have been committed in Brazil where even its thieves loved football too much.

But the trophy was eventually found by Pickles, a mongrel dog, out for a walk with his owner, on 27 March in south London.

Later that year it was England who won the World Cup, but four yeasrs later in 1970, Brazil was allowed to keep the trophy for ever, after winning the competition for the third time.

The replacement trophy remains the prize for the World Cup to this day.

The Jules Rimet cup kept by Brazil in 1970 was stolen again in 1983 - in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

It has never been recovered.

Tut.  Tut.