Little Fat Chap

"Look at that little fat chap. We’ll murder this lot." That fatal comment was made by a British journalist leading up to a famous game between Hungary and England in 1953, with the Hungarian players virtually unknown to the British audience. 90 minutes later, the English team was in ruins, devastated by 6-3 at the hands of the Hungarians.

With that victory they became the first non-UK team to defeat the English national team at Wembley Stadium. The Mighty Magyars didn’t just slaughter the Englishmen, they did it in style, and the “little fat chap”, Ferenc Puskas, scored two goals and amazed the audience with dazzling technical ability. The humiliated Englishmen demanded a rematch and the Hungarians accepted. The final result of that game, 7-1, remains the heaviest English loss in international football to date. And that was just a warm up to the World Cup of 1954: more was to come from the Hungarians