KEITH DIXON RECALLS WHEN SHELL-SHOCKED ENGLAND WERE OUTCLASSED AT WEMBLEY STADIUM…

LOOKING BACK

IN THE FIRING LINE: England keeper Gil Merrick is left helpless as Hungary score their third goal in the 6-3 romp

LATER this year comes the 65th anniversary of the day when English football was taught a lesson by the ‘Mighty Magyars’.
It was on November 25, 1953 that 105,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium saw Hungary humiliate an England side that had only been beaten on home soil once, in 1949 by the Republic of Ireland.
The Hungarians were Olympic champions and the world&rs...