A former police officer has told how he took the World Cup trophy off Nobby Stiles and replaced it with a fake after England’s 1966 victory.
The footie legend, who died last week aged 78, had just been pictured dancing around the pitch at Wembley when Peter Weston approached him. The FA sent the rookie PC to swap the Jules Rimet trophy for a replica as a precaution after its dramatic theft and recovery a few months earlier.
Peter told podcast Stealing Victory: The Untold Story of the 1966 World Cup Heist: “I had it under my tunic, walked into the dressing room and bedlam, it was packed with people.
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