A mural entitled “6:3” depicts the victory of the Aranycsapat (“Golden Team”) over England at Wembley in November 1953. The “Match of the Century” was the first home defeat for England of any continental side, and was in many ways a watershed for English football, tactically, especially when in a return fixture in Budapest six months later the Golden Team dispatched an England team featuring Billy Wright and Tom Finney 7-1 in front of around 100,000 people.

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The 50-metre-wide, 30-metre-high artwork is Hungary’s largest, which puts the Match of the Century into context. It features Honvéd goalkeeper and captain Gyula Grosics contesting a high ball and a Hungarian shot going in past England ‘keeper Gil Merrick. Both images are surrounded by newspaper cuttings from the ’s Rumbach Sebestyén street is a narrow thoroughfare in the Hungarian capital’s Jewish quarter. It’s a pretty out-of-the-way place to stumble across a celebration of what is arguably the biggest moment in the country’s sporting history. A mural entitled “6:3” depicts the victory of the Aranycsapat (“Golden Team”) over England at Wembley in November 1953. The “Match of the Century” was the first home defeat for England of any continental side, and was in many ways a watershed for English football, tactically, especially when in a return fixture in Budapest six months later the Golden Team dispatched an England team featuring Billy Wright and Tom Finney 7-1 in front of around 100,000 people. The FA could no longer view the 6-3 as a one-off, England was way behind the best, and this record defeat emphasised this fact.

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Size: 6000px × 4000px
Location: Rumbach Sebestyén street, Budapest, Hungary
Photo credit: © David Warren / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1953, billy, budapest, defeat, england, finney, football, gil, hungary, merrick, mural, murals, rumbach, sebestyé, sites, street, tom, wright