FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
FIFA World Cup 2022: Greatest show on Earth returns
At its best and its worst, the FIFA World Cup is more thrilling than any other event can conjure up. A live performance unequalled in its vigour and trickery, the thralling geometry of its movement a mere foil to the violent earnestness of its combat. From 1930 to 2022, from Pele to Zidane to Mbappe, here's a walk down the lanes of the history of the beautiful game
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1966 Sniffing the Cup In early March of 1966, three months before the World Cup kick-off, The Jules Rimet Trophy had been displayed in a glass case at a stamp exhibition in Westminster, England, with two guards on hourly checks. On the morning of 20th, between the regular tour of inspection at 11 am and midday, the cup was stolen. Two nights later, a dockworker and his collie Pickles were walking in Southeast London when the dog sniffed out a parcel in a newspaper, which turned out to be the trophy. Pickles briefly became a national hero, appeared on TV and in some movies.