United States’ victory over England in 1950. Wait a minute. The United States beat England in the World Cup? This was news to me. I discovered the United States had indeed upset England, 1–0, on a goal by Joe Gaetjens, who was actually from Haiti. I also learned that newspaper editors of the time believed the score was a typographical error when it

The Hungarians were legends, Brazil on the Danube, eight or nine of them swarming downfield, beating England, 6–3, at Wembley. The English could not believe it and came back for more, and Hungary won, 7–1. That first victory is memorialized by the 6–3 wine bar, still operative in Budapest.