FIRST ENGLISH DEFEAT ON ENGLISH SOIL

The 25th November 1953 witnessed the day that England a football force was overtaken by The Mighty Magyars, the Hungarian football team. It was the first time that the English football was beaten by a non-British nation on "English soil".

The links below will tell you more and you should look at the You Tube link that shows the goals that the Hungarians scored at Wembley
http://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-galloping-major.html
http://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/rulers-of-world-once.html

Hungarians were the 1952 Olympic champions and World Youth Champions and were part coached by ex-England player Jimmy Hogan, who had played for Burnley and Fulham.

England were "outplayed, outpaced and outshot". It was 4-2 to the visitors at half time and 6-3 at the end. Puskas leads his Magyars out alongside England captain Bill Wright.
It was final time Billy got near Puskas for over 90 minutes!

Six months later as England toured Eastern Europe they lost again 1-7!

England's first defeat by a foreign nation on home soil was losing to Eire (ROI) at Goodison Park on September 21st 1949.

I remind you of the woeful effort by the star studded England team at the 1950 World Cup when they lost to the USA in qualifying rounds and failed to go on in the competition! (on 29th June, this was the first defeat to a non-European national team).

Their first defeat to a non-British national team was v Spain in May 15th 1929 3-4 in Madrid. Spain were part coached by Fred Pentland, who had been a bit of a journeyman footballer in England and abroad helping coach Spain under Jose Maria Mateos having served in the First World War. More about him in due course.

England's only defeat by a foreign nation on home soil was losing to Eire (ROI) at Goodison Park on September 21st 1949. I remind you of the woeful effort by the star studded England team at the 1950 World Cup when they lost to the USA! (on 29th June was the first defeat to a non-European national team).