Boys from Brazil beat ’Pool in ‘greats’ poll

BRAZIL’S 1970 World Cup-winning team are the greatest side in sport, according to BBC Radio Five Live listeners.

Sat, 24 Dec, 2005 - 00:00

Pele and his superstars were narrowly ahead of Liverpool's triple-European Cup winners in the BBC poll.

England's victorious 1966 World Cup side were beaten into fourth place by Real Madrid's formidable five-times European Cup winners of the 1950s.

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