Listen to the full interview via the Off The Ball Football Show podcast.
Sixty years on even the English are celebrating the great Hungarian side that thrashed them 6 - 3 at Wembley in one of history's most important matches.
Up to that point, England had never lost to a team from outside the UK or Ireland.
But as Hungary legend Ferenc Puskas' biographer Rogan Taylor explained on Off The Ball, the Three Lions were about to face a side that had really invented the concept of Total football and many aspects of the modern game.
Taylor who wrote Puskas on Puskas and is a footballing professor at the University of Liverpool explained the context of the game in the Cold War era and the importance of Puskas' drag back which had never been seen by an English audience before.
"I have a wonderful still photograph taken while the third goal is being scored. Puskas got the ball on the right side of the six yard box and dragged the ball back with his studs and in one movement lashed into the goal. Nobody had ever dragged the ball back in England. Nobody had ever seen that it was a revolutionary act.
"Captain was marking captain and as Billy Wright arrived to make the tackle, it was described by The Times newspaper the next day as 'like a fire engine arriving too late for the fire'. It was almost like a matador confusing the bull."
