Tor! by Uli Hesse Published by WSC Books 2013, £9.49 [A]s a voracious devourer of football history while growing up, I had always been cynical about West Germany’s win over Hungary in the 1954 World Cup Final, the so-called ‘Miracle of Bern’. After all, an enormous European country vanquishing a much smaller one was hardly on a level with that same large nation’s defeat to Algeria in the 1982 tournament and those Hungarians are to this day rated as one of the three most undeserving teams to miss out on overall glory. But in the new update of this simply magnificent...
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