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70 years ago the match of the century was played between England(3) and Hungary(6). The return fixture saw Hungary trash England 7-1, England’s largest defeat to this day. (alien.top)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (23 children)

In football its is a widespread belief that in order to be remembered you need to win silverware.

Hungary of that time is one of the exceptions to that rule.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Nonsense. Hungary '54 and Netherlands '74 lost in final, but are still remembered fondly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

So like 2 teams over the last 70 years? (Id personally add Brazil and the Netherlands 1998 as well)

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