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70 years ago the match of the century was played between England(3) and Hungary(6). The return fixture saw Hungary trash England 7-1, England’s largest defeat to this day. (alien.top)

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[–] MimesAreShite@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

they were still a top team well into the seventies (just checked, and i think the first time they dropped out of the Elo top 10 post-WW2 was 1974).

[–] NiK3_Aub4mey4ng@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i mean they had a good team, Florian Albert was European Footballer of the Year in ‘67. Just I think they always tried to compare themselves to the ‘52 team and they weren’t able to

[–] Maleficent_Resolve44@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought 1954 was their peak when they reached the world cup final?

[–] NiK3_Aub4mey4ng@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

i mean the '52 squad won the Olympics, where they beat Sweden 6-2 in the semi-finals, its really the same squad, just 2 years older. In '54 you also had Puskas injured until finals and such