Have you ever heard the tale of the football player

turned armoured car rubber?

It's the story so wild, it almost seems fake.

No, no, no, no. What is your emergency?

Armoured robbery!

It's an implausible tale of drugs, greed, and war-aware escapes.

It's like something out of a movie.

A man steals a bag of money from an armored car here at this bank

but it's how he gets away that has everybody talking.

With honest documents and previously unreleased audio,

we tell the story of Anthony Curcio in full.

I'm Johnny Marl, this is Sports Strangest Crimes.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

Yeah, after the news the two Swedish football fans were killed and murdered indeed in Brussels

as Swedish fans went to watch their national team play against Belgium in the Euro qualifiers.

I think this is one of those evenings when I'm appealing to you all.

We are football fans, we are soccer fans.

We came here to watch Linneke, Maradona, anybody you want.

Play football to entertain us and really and truly for us to convene together if I can put it in that way.

So let's do it tonight.

Let's make sure that we support each other going forwards, of course,

but also that we try, we try and make this a moment to remember for all of us, for all of us, for all sorts of reasons.

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