November 17, 2006

Ferenc Puskas, The Galloping Major, has died at 79. He was one of the greatest footballers (youtube) of all time. Here's another obituary, with an audio link to Tom Finney paying tribute.
posted by bobboggis 17 years ago
  • . > greatest footballers (youtube) Removed at behest of beeb.
  • Damn the BBC. Why, if I paid my license fee, I'd have a good mind not to. Have a Spanish language video bio from an Italian website: (stuff you bbc)
  • His goals-to-games ratios for both country and Real are insane.
  • O, and here's a good one. Mr Coppe, I agree entirely. 83 in 84 games for Hungary? Astonishing.
  • In them days scoring goals was much easier than now. Namely because catenaccio hadn't yet been invented. Still, he was a great player, and us Barcelona fans will never stop hating him for it.
  • About catenaccio, that may well be true, but they had to wear hobnail boots and the ball weighed half a ton. And to get that many goals for Real (sorry, mate) while playing alongside di Stefano is truly remarkable.