God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen.
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen.
Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign.
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen.
O Lord our God, arise
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall:
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix:
God save us all.

The official English mascot .

Ferenc Puskas
Born: 2 April, 1927. Budapest, Hungary

International Caps Hungary 84, Spain 4
International Goals Hungary 83
Teams Kispest Honved, Real Madrid
Team Honours European Cup: 1959, 60, 66.
World Club Championship: 1960
Spanish Championships: 1961, 62, 63, 64, 65.
Spanish Cup: 1962
Hungarian Championship: 1950, 52, 54, 55.
Olympic Gold Medal: 1952
Individual Honours -
"Look at that little fat chap. We'll murder this lot." In the long and inglorious annals of great British sporting disasters, few judgments have been wider of the mark.
"Fat and little" were as close as those remarks, from an England player, got to anything resembling the truth as he sized up the opposition.

Ninety minutes later Hungary had slaughtered England 6-3. They were the first foreign team to inflict defeat on England at Wembley. And what a defeat. It wasn't just the score. The style of football played by the Magnificent Magyars might as well have come from another planet. England, self-styled masters of the game, were humiliated.

The "little fat chap" was Ferenc Puskas, the Hungarian captain. Indeed, he was an odd looking footballer. He was short, stocky, barrel-chested, overweight, couldn't head and only used one foot.

Yet no one in Britain had seen ball skills like his as he inspired a performance that completely demolished England's reputation as a world football power.

Puskas was known as the Galloping Major, a reference to the fact that he was an army officer playing for an army team. Later, when he was exiled in Spain, he became known as the little canon. For that one foot, his left, packed such a thunderbolt shot that he scored 83 goals in 84 internationals and he remains the only player to have scored four goals in a European Cup Final.

Tom Finney, who watched England's woe from the Wembley stands, spoke for everyone when he said: "I came away wondering to myself what we had been doing all these years."

A few months later he found out the hard way. Finney was selected for the team to play the return match in Budapest. Puskas and Co did it again . . but this time they inflicted a 7-1 drubbing on England.

Puskas was born in Budapest in April 1927 and had been something of a boy wonder, making his debut for his father's old team Kispest at the age of 16. At 18 he was an international, appearing for Hungary against Austria in 1945.

Hungary had been a significant soccer nation before the war, losing 4-2 to Italy in the 1938 World Cup Final. But as the Soviet Union grabbed land and colonised peoples under the Communist banner in the aftermath of war, even football was not unaffected.

Military teams, emphasising the might of the Soviet way of life, sprang up all over Eastern Europe. Hungary was no exception. Basically the authorities took the Kispest club and all their players and in 1948 turned them into Honved, the team of the Hungarian Army.

Using national service as a pretext to annexe talent, Honved became the most successful club in Europe in the days before the European Cup and that club side was to form the basis of the national team.

That first season, Puskas scored 50 goals as he won the first of his four Hungarian Championships with Honved.

Of course, Communist sports teams were technically amateurs. Consequently they could compete in the Olympic Games. Puskas was captain of his country when they took the soccer gold medal by defeating Yugoslavia in the final at Helsinki in 1952.

The Hungarian team was essentially built around five remarkable players. Grosics in goal, Bozsik at half-back, and forwards Kocsis, Hidegkuti and Puskas. But they began a revolutionary development in attack. While inside forwards Kocsis and Puskas were the main thrust of the attack, centre-forward Hidegkuti played deep.

England's captain and centre-half Billy Wright, a man of formidable international experience, had no idea how to cope with it during the Wembley massacre. The ta