After a winning start at Goodison Park, Brazil's 1966 hopes were dampened against Hungary in the Merseyside rain
Following the confirmation that Everton’s new stadium will be a venue at the 2028 European Championship, ECHO Everton reporter Chris Beesley looks back on the only previous time the Blues hosted matches at a major international tournament, the 1966 World Cup finals. Here is the second in his five-part daily series on the games at Goodison Park.
It wasn’t just Brazil’s players who were receiving plaudits though and the ECHO revealed that a report in Sweden had praised the population of Liverpool for the way they had embraced the tournament. Stockholm-based publication Dagens Nyheter is quoted as saying: “This is the football city of England, not stiff and serious London where you can hardly tell that there is a World Cup competition going on. The people here are really the supporters and friends of football.
But while nobody was left in any doubt about Scousers’ hospitality credentials, the Brazilian blossom quickly wilted after the bouquets they had received after their first fixture. Of their loss to the Magyars, Charters said: “Another great game at Goodison Park last night – in fact one of the finest ever seen on this famous ground.
Indeed, when the holders equalised a dozen minutes later through Tostao, Charters remarked that it was “fortunate.” Charters wrote: “Kalman Meszoly made no mistake from the spot, although two of his colleagues in front of the main stand, turned their heads away in anguish while he was taking the kick.”
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