But this was grasping desperately at straws. The paper claimed that "within the framework of British football were acceptable … they could probably win against Scotland at Hampden Park next April". Has there ever been a more sweeping - yet accurate - statement than this? England had just been ripped a new aperture in their voluminous shorts by Ferenc Puskas and his Olympic champions, and here the Times reflected the addled confusion of a country unaccustomed to being beaten 6-3 at home by "the foreign invader". 2) A NEW CONCEPTION OF FOOTBALL (The Times) "In less than a few hours", Alcide Ghiggia would beat Barbosa at his near post half of the apocryphal suicides that would later occur that fateful day in Rio probably happened on the O Mundo back bench, as the later editions of the paper had to be entirely reworked. But soundwaves dissipate into the ether - the printed word doesn't. In fairness, they weren't the only ones to put the cart before the horse: the mayor of Rio had made a skitteringly useless attempt at a rousing Churchillian address on the turf before the match, hailing the Brazilian players as having "no rivals in the entire hemisphere" and claiming that "in less than a few hours" they would be "hailed as champions by millions of compatriots".
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