Puskas dies...
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One of the greatest players of all time - not bad for a short fat bloke. Apparently on seeing him turn up at Wembley for the 1953 game between Hungary and England, people laughed and called him roly-poly. The laughing soon stopped when he scored two goals in Hungary's 6-3 win over England, before Hungary rubbed salt into the wounds by beating England 7-1 in the return leg.
One of the greatest players of all time - not bad for a short fat bloke. Apparently on seeing him turn up at Wembley for the 1953 game between Hungary and England, people laughed and called him roly-poly. The laughing soon stopped when he scored two goals in Hungary's 6-3 win over England, before Hungary rubbed salt into the wounds by beating England 7-1 in the return leg.
Einion Yrth said:
Eric Mc said:
Philistines.
The Hungarians taught the English soccer team a real lesson in 1953.
The Hungarians taught the English soccer team a real lesson in 1953.
From which it has yet to recover (apart from West Ham winning the world cup in '66).
"apart from winning the World Cup!" That's like saying the Americans were losing the space race to the Russians and have yet to recover, apart from the Moon Landings, reusable Space Craft, missions to Mars...
RIP Puskas - You de man!
I was thinking more of how English football viewed itself in 1953. In fact, it was the drubbings by Hungary that prompted England to sart reviewing its atitude to "foreign" teams and start building a team and system that might be capable of winning a World Cup.
Maybe they need another Puskas moment.
Maybe they need another Puskas moment.
Eric Mc said:
I was thinking more of how English football viewed itself in 1953. In fact, it was the drubbings by Hungary that prompted England to sart reviewing its atitude to "foreign" teams and start building a team and system that might be capable of winning a World Cup.
Maybe they need another Puskas moment.
Maybe they need another Puskas moment.
You think they haven't had any recently?!?
But yes, from what I've read Puskas truly was one of the all-time greats. I regret that I'm not old enough to have seen him play.
Will any of our current footballers be looked back on with the varying fondness, admiration and respect that we have nowadays for the likes of Pele, Cruyff, Yashin, Best, Moore, Platini, Beckenbauer and Puskas? Ronaldinho, perhaps, but I can't see that any of them are held in as high esteem as those that I've mentioned here were. Certainly none of the current generation seem as innovative, as popular or as flat out head-and-shoulders-above-the-rest as them. Plus there's the fact that the established greats plyed their trades in an era before the advent of £100k a week wages...
And also just to put the record straight. Most of the British media this morning are reporting that England's defeat to Hungary in 1953 was the first home defeat by the English international side to a foreign side. This is incorrect. England lost at home to the Republic of Ireland 2-0 in 1949.
And before anyone says anything, the Republic of Ireland is not and never was a "Home" side as it never took part in the old "Home Intermnationals" and is not part of the UK.
And before anyone says anything, the Republic of Ireland is not and never was a "Home" side as it never took part in the old "Home Intermnationals" and is not part of the UK.
Eric Mc said:
And also just to put the record straight. Most of the British media this morning are reporting that England's defeat to Hungary in 1953 was the first home defeat by the English international side to a foreign side. This is incorrect. England lost at home to the Republic of Ireland 2-0 in 1949.
And before anyone says anything, the Republic of Ireland is not and never was a "Home" side as it never took part in the old "Home Intermnationals" and is not part of the UK.
And before anyone says anything, the Republic of Ireland is not and never was a "Home" side as it never took part in the old "Home Intermnationals" and is not part of the UK.
Damn, a perfectly good Eric baiting, nipped in the bud.
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