Woman: For historians, this ___ had a familiar ring.
Man: I don't care a brass farthing about the improvement of the game in France, Belgium, Austria or Germany. The FIFA does not appeal to me. An organization where such football associations as those of Uruguay and Paraguay, Brazil and Egypt, Bohemia and ___ are coequal with England and Scotland, Wales and Ireland seems to be a case of magnifying the midgets.
Women: Those words from Charles Sutcliff, President of the Football League over a century ago. He was, and probably is, not alone in his views. Ever since FIFA was created in France in 1904, British football, and especially English football, has had a rather strange relationship with it. John Williams is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Leicester.
The result was still a shock, and it only got worse the following May when England traveled to Budapest and were beaten seven-one by Hungary. With hindsight, the humiliation of those results seemed to sum up the state of Britain as a whole in the mid-1950s. Barely out of rationing, losing its colonial possessions, and playing second fiddle to the brash Americans and the rapidly rebuilding Europeans. Some continued to bury their heads in the sand, but for others, like Matt Busby at Manchester United, there are lessons to be learned.
Man: What was David going to do? He would be crushed like an ant if he didn't move out of the way. But David didn't need to move. He just picked up his slingshot and one of his five stones and he slowly took aim. The stone flew through the air (whhhoooshh) all the way up to Goliath.