Soccer: ‘We should be all right here, Stan’

IT IS probably the only football match to be known simply by the scoreline — 6-3.

It needs no explanation to Hungarians, English fans of a certain age or plenty of other people around the world.

For those Hungarians who experienced it in the dark days of communist repression, Hungary's remarkable 6-3 victory over England at Wembley in November 1953 was much more than a famous win.

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