COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN ENGLAND WERE STUNNED ON HOME TURF 65 YEARS AGO...

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Have a go: England centreforward Brian Clough shoots

THE tale of England’s crushing 6-3 defeat at the hands (or feet) of Hungary in late November 1953 has been recalled many times.
England’s proud record of never having been beaten by a foreign team at home - symbolic of our soccer standing - had been shattered. There were no mitigating circumstances, no excuses. England had been given a football lesson by Fer...