Pickles Finds The World Cup: The Story Of Football's Most Famous Dog!
It Was What It Was : The Football History Podcast
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4.9 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This week on It Was What It Was, it's the tale of Pickles: The most famous dog in football history.
As most football fans know, Pickles saved the day by finding the Jules Rimet trophy - the original World Cup - after it had farcically been stolen from a stamp collection exhibition in the run up to the 1966 World Cup.
But the whole story is even more surprising, more tragic and more comedic. And what came next for Pickles and the thief? Jonathan and Rob reveal all.
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| 0:00.0 | Dear Joe, now don't you view a very great concern, the loss of the World Cup. |
| 0:12.3 | To me, there's only so much weight in scrap gold. So if you want to see it again, I suggest you do as I say and follow my instructions. |
| 0:21.7 | Welcome to It Was What It Was. I'm Rob Draper. I'm here with Jonathan Wilson and this is the seminal |
| 0:27.8 | story of the 1966 World Cup. The most important aspect of that well-cut win. It's not |
| 0:33.5 | the England Industries 4-4-2 to the world. It is not the start of 58 years of her. |
| 0:38.9 | It's not Bobby Moore, Jeff Hurst or Bobby Cheldon, but it is, of course, Pickles the Dog. |
| 0:44.6 | I think some of you may know about Pickles the dog who discovered the World Cup when it |
| 0:50.3 | disappeared from view, got stolen. But maybe foreign listeners don't know anything about Pickles. |
| 0:55.3 | If so, I urge you to stay on because this is a treat of a story. |
| 0:59.4 | It's wonderful. |
| 1:00.0 | And if you do know a little bit about Pickles, I promise you, |
| 1:02.4 | I doubt you know the full story or the full hilarity of it. |
| 1:05.8 | And that was a ransom note, the genuine actual ransom note. |
| 1:10.1 | I know it sounds like something out of a Guy Ritchie film, but it generally, and obviously Jonathan sounds a bit like something out of a guy Ritchie film. That was me. People might not realise that was me. That wasn't Ray Winston. That was actually me doing that. That is his normal accent. He just puts on a Sondland accent for the show. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, and that that is the note that was sent to the police. |
| 1:36.6 | If the press or police get hold of this, then the cart's going to get melted down. |
| 1:38.6 | And Jonathan's going to take us through this. |
| 1:40.8 | I can only say, it's a caper, isn't it? |
| 1:42.0 | It really is a caper. |
| 1:46.8 | And Jonathan, why don't you introduce the background to this incredible story and how this ransom note gets delivered? To be honest, I'm saying this because |
| 1:52.6 | I fear listeners might be in the same position as I was. I was like, yeah, I know this pickle story. |
| 1:57.8 | Boring, dog finds World Cup. So what? Everybody knows. It doesn't matter. |
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