Peter Chapman Author & Editor

Peter Chapman was brought up in Islington, north London. In the 1960s, he played in goal for Leyton Orient junior and colts teams. He was a correspondent for the BBC and the Guardian in Central America and Mexico from 1981 to 1986. He covered two World Cups – Mexico 1986 and Italy 1990 – for ITV and is now an editor and writer at the Financial Times, where he plays five-a-side football. He lives in Norwood, in south London, where the stolen World Cup trophy was found in March 1966 by a local dog, Pickles, out for his evening walk.