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But there's no direct flight.

And so their flight takes them back via Bogota.

They've got a couple of hours layover.

And Alf Ramsey thinks, well, we're just going to hang out in that same hotel for a bit just to keep the players occupied.

And it's when they're there that the police come to arrest Bobby Moore.

Because mysteriously, a new witness has come forward to say that he stole this bracelet.

And so Bobby Moore was arrested.

The rest of the squad have to go on to Mexico without their captain to start England's football campaign.

And Bobby Moore spends four days in Bogota under house arrest.

It's a mystery that has never been solved.

So Bobby Moore was denied that he'd taken a bracelet.

No bracelet was ever found.

I actually did a deep dive at the National Archives in Kew about this because it turns out that the British government was very, very exercised when Bobby Moore got arrested.

And there's a fat folder there marked secret where

not to be released until the year 2000.

So for some reason, the government thought that these communiques and documents that were fluttering backwards and forwards between London and Bogota and Mexico City were sensitive and needed to be kept secret.

And I think part of the reason was politics, because what had happened was that Harold Wilson, who was the prime minister of the day at the time, had called an early general election in 1970 to coincide with the World Cup.

Basically, he'd he'd timed it.

to take place after the semifinals and before the finals, kind of counting on a feel-good bounce in the polls, right?

And so when Bobby Moore, the captain, is arrested, and it looks like England's going to have to play without him, you can see all these frantic cables going backwards and forwards between Downing Street, embassies in Mexico City, in Bogota,