Wolves Beat Honved (1954)

Molineux Ground, Wolverhampton. SV. Teams coming out onto field at the Molineux Ground, Wolverhampton. Side view, mass crowds. GV. Wolves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) kick off in dark shorts. Honved, Hungarian Champion team, dressed in white with stripes on jersey. Ball goes to the right wing, with Wolves attacking. SV. Johnny Hancocks with ball. He shoots and goal keeper Farago runs out to punch clear, but ball quickly goes to Leslie Smith No 11, who shoots but ball just goes past post. SV. Crowd applauding. SV. Ferenc (Ferentz) Machos No 9, centres to goal area, but Williams runs out to kick ball clear from oncoming Hungarian. Shorthouse No 3, collects and dribbles round to shoot up-field. LV. Play in midfield. Ball is passed to Laszlo Budai No 7, who races down right wing chased by Ron Flowers. SV. Budai shoots to centre, but ball hits Flower’s hand immediately giving free-kick to Hungary. SV. Crowd. SV. Ferenc (Ferentz) Puskas taking free-kick. Ball goes straight to Sandor Kocsis to head ball in the net.
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