In 1966, someone stole the World Cup trophy.

Not a replica. Not a copy. The real one. The Jules Rimet Trophy — one of the most famous objects in all of sport — vanished from a locked display case in London, past multiple security guards, on a Sunday morning while a church service was happening in the same building.

The thief left behind rare stamps worth millions of pounds. They only took the cup.

A ransom note arrived days later. The police set up a sting operation, caught a man trying to collect the money — but the trophy wasn't with him. He claimed someone called "The Pole" had hired him as a middleman. Nobody ever found out who actually stole it.

For days, the most famous trophy in the world was just... missing.

And then a man named David Corbett took his dog for a walk in south London.

The dog — a black an ...