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Good evening, and welcome to live coverage of Hungary versus England in World Cup Qualifying Group I. You all surely know the story of that match. One down in under a minute; that little fat chap Ferenc Puskas sending Billy Wright away like a fire truck in the wrong direction; Nandor Hidegutki helping himself to a treble; right back Alf Ramsey – all of England in fact – looking on agog at the puncturing of imperial hubris. Hungary’s seminal 6-3 scudding of England at Wembley in November 1953 is first-page-of-the-curriculum stuff for international football history. But the pain didn’t end there for Albion folks, oh no. Six months later, as a warm-up to the 1954 World Cup, England travelled to this very spot in Budapest to set the record straight, temporarily kidding themselves that Wembley had been an aberration and that the Magical Magyars could be swiftly slapped back down the pecking order of the international game. The 7-1 defeat that followed is the heaviest in England’s history, a

World Cup Qualification UEFA / Matchday 4
Puskás Aréna / 02.09.2021
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Updated 02/09/2021 at 21:48 GMT+1