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I'm sure I read somewhere that he never earned more than £25 a week during his playing career. (the maximum wage that was allowed by the FA.)

Thanks for sharing. It brings a lump to the throat to see Duncan Edwards less than two years before his death in the Munich air disaster.

After 5:35 Mathews should've dived. He would've almost certainly have a pen.

Guerreiros uruguaios só foram derrotados pelos fabulosos húngaros na prorrogação.

2 years after this, Brazil won the World Cup (with Pele) & two of England’s (& Man Utd’s) brightest young stars playing in this game, Duncan Edwards & Tommy Taylor, were tragically killed in the Munich air disaster.

Unlike others here, I don't like it. Pedestrian pace and Matthews whilst tricky, wouldn't get past modern defences. Reminded me of pensioners walking football; current day.

How old was Matthews in this game? He played against Germany in 1936. Presumably that was Duncan Edwards who was referred to.

40 pound a week real super stars

This team were playing with more pace than the Euro 2024 team...For some reason, we left our pacey players on the bench throughout the entire tournament.

They had passion back then. Just money today. No passion. Matthews the best Blackpool player ever.

Because of dirty play and foul tackling, it is impossible for players today to go past defenders in this manner. The game has bee ruined by the erosion of sportsmanship

Why didn't we see the Brazil goals?

I love the old BBC commentary so much

no fouling? football was brutally violent in those days

Soy español y no entiendo mucho de futbol, por eso apelo a ustedes. ¿Quién creen que fue mejor extremo, Sir Stanley o Garrincha?. Es la primera vez que veo a Matthews jugando y la verdad es que me ha impresionado, y dicen ustedes que estaba en la última fase de su carrera. ¿Cómo sería entonces en su mejor época? Maravilloso. Gracias por este video. Les espero a todos en las vacaciones de verano en España.

Soy español. La primera vez que veo al legendario Mathews. Matthews = Garrincha sin florituras. Juego austero, pero eficaz.

I get the impression that the ball was heavier then and didn't bounce as much.

English football standards have been in free fall ever since. FFS Kane the 🤡🤡

This video shows how footballers have progressed. Stanley Mathews did not have the skills to take a man on and go round him. He always went to one side then passed the ball to another player. But that was acceptable in his day.

Kenneth Wolstenholme commentating?

Thanks for posting this! I never saw any footage of Stanley M and Johnny Haynes before, though I remember my dad say how good they were, many years ago. I never thought I'd have the chance to actually see them playing, so thanks once again.

8:14 The England full back in this match, Jeff Hall, died in 1959 aged 29 from polio. A young man, fit, and athletic cut down in his prime. This accelerated the vaccination program. So in 14 months 3 fullbacks lost their lives, Geoff Bent, Roger Byrne and Jeff Hall.

The best player on the pitch is Duncan Edwards

Is this Harry Enfield?

Not a single back pass to the keeper.

Over rated player, jimmy johnstone at celtic twice the player !!! Thats why Celtic where invited to Alferdo de stefanos testimonial and spanish crowd ole,d his every move take your blinkers off guys ........flawed genius and could take some rough housing to boot ...... and come back for more ......

Stanley was 87 at the time of this match

Er.. tin hat on - as a regular attender of Scotland matches at Hampden in the 1970s, my abiding memories are of Dalglish being slow and losing possession to cries from the crowd of "for f*s sake Dalglish..." Doubtless a great player for Liverpool but for Scotland he didn't have the same influence.

I would love to see two of the top premier league teams play a full time game with a leather ball that was used in the 50s!!!!!!!! A corner kick would just reach the penalty area and no one could pass from one side of the pitch to the other. 😊

Anyone notice hardly any sideways or backward passes? And midfielders who actually RUN at defences.

Forget Matthews and his bad passing in this 10min clip, i was more impressed with Johnny Haynes here. Wow what a game he must have had.

Seriously thought this was the follow up to the Comedy by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse 😂😅😭🤣

I saw Haynes play the once

Those were the days! Matthews - the famous No 7 - in the era of other greats like Tom Finney and Stan Mortenson...to name just a couple. Today's players should have this available!

a lot said matthews used speed

So much better than the rubbish served up by England in the Euros.

It's a shame we didn't see more of Duncan Edwards.

The standard of football then was even worse than none league football today.

When asked about Johnny Haynes ability Pele replied - "John was always available, always hungry for the ball, always wanting to play. I loved watching the player. Later I learnt to love the man.I have never seen a better passer of the ball than Haynes" . TRULY HIGH PRAISE INDEED.

It’s hard to compare football in those days to now, if only because the equipment - ball and boots - were quite different. Much heavier, and made of leather. The ball bounced much less than today, and it was much harder, especially with the old style boots, to get under it to lift it into the air. Oh, and the ball hurt like hell when you headed it, especially if it was wet and even heavier.

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And they played with 5 up front, none of this 424 or 224 nonsense. Two wingers, two inside wingers and a centre forward 🤷‍♂️🤪⚽️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Very compact and spectacular football, further proof that football is played primarily with the head, intelligence, willpower and thirst for victory.

I saw Johnny Haynes play for Fulham against Spurs at White Hart Lane.

An England team with English people, not so now.

انها فعلا ممتعة فترة الستينات بداية العصر الذهبي لانكلترا ((المملكة المتحدة))💯💯

Matthews was undoubtedly a superb player, but age was catching up with him by 1953. He certainly had wonderful ball skills and was a master of delivering great passes, but his lack of pace and stamina with his advancing years was obvious. Stan’s dribbling skills were phenomenal, but at this level, speed and acceleration was called for to open up the defence. But the real problem with the England team at this time was the lack of athleticism and ball skills. The two English full backs and the half backs were by international football standards slow and ponderous in their play. In this particular match, a lack of pace was cruelly exposed by the Hungarians as they constantly beat the English defenders to the ball. Johnstone, Wright and Ramsay were good defenders and sound club players, but all three were painfully slow - and this was embarrassingly demonstrated in this match.

If Raynor had been England's coach instead of that cretin Winterbottom, England would have spanked Hungary. It's so obvious how you could have got a hatful of goals against the defence. The amount of players England had over in the box when the first man goes for goal is insane. No wonder Sweden came so close to winning in Budapest! Have we got footage of the Sweden game by any chance? See the magic of Raynor at work.

The more you look at this, the more you realise that one key play for the Hungarians (apart from third man theory - which is covered in detail in my book about Hogan) was double or treble teaming Matthews. Perhaps this would have been made redundant if the left outside forward position had gone not to George Robb (the amateur player) but to Tom Finney (who, let's face it, was a more devastating outside forward than Matthews and, arguably, one of the top 5 players to ever kick a football). Little wonder that George Raynor was able to work the Hungarians out so easily. I would have put Matthews up field, played Finney on the left. That way, the Hungarian defence would have remained stretched. Loaded the midfield to over-run their 2 there and just played ping pong with them all afternoon. Only after being 4-2 up in the 2nd half did Matthews start getting to the by-line and then you realise what damage he was causing. Before that, the Hungarians were loading that side of the field to stop him and leaving Robb to run around like a headless chicken. I would have gone for Finney on the left and that would have left a massive hole in the centre for Morty and Sewell to run through. You can see a similar tactic in 1980 when England played Belgium. The Belgian players weren't too worried about Keegan and Brooking and Wilkins but they were almightily shit scared of Coppell with good reason. The finest outside right in Europe, he was the equal of Robertson and Johnston and the best outside forward England have had since Matthews (and, yes, that includes the over-rated Saka). Getting back to Hungary, you also see that once that massed defence was breached, they were porous. Little wonder that they lost the World Cup. You can't win a World Cup if you give up 10 goals in 5 matches.

Gramado excelente. Em 1956....