“Take, if you will, Hungary’s Golden Team. The story may be familiar to you: a near-perfect marriage of radical tactics with great players (Puskás, Hidegkuti, Kocsis, Bozsik, Czibor…), producing a new, adventurous style which was seemingly irresistible; an Olympic gold medal, won with five straight wins by an aggregate score of 20-2; a tying-up of the loose ends of the Dr. Gerö Cup; the Wembley 6-3, with the “people from outer space” and the “fire engine heading to the wrong fire” and the ‘utter helplessness’; the 7-1 return in the Népstadion; the four-year, 28-game unbeaten run (if we don’t count a loss to a Moscow representative selection. And we don’t, apparently) the team took into the 1954 World Cup, and not just any unbeaten run, but one in which they truly trounced opponents; the breeze through the group stage (two games, seventeen goals); the Battle of Berne; the thrilling victory over champions Uruguay in the semi-final; the final against a West Germany team they had beaten 8-3 (a real 1954 score, that) earlier in the tournament; the two early goals that would surely see them on their way to fulfilling their destiny as the greatest ever football team; Germany’s quick replies to level the affair; a third German goal with five minutes to go…” (Sport Is A TV Show)