Behind the Curtain: Football in Eastern Europe

by Jonathan Wilson

He had formerly coached KSZO, but had been sacked after refusing to pick the club owner Mirosław Stasiak, who, despite being in his late thirties, on the heavy side and having had no formal football coaching, felt it was his right to blunder off the bench for the last few minutes, particularly if there was a penalty to be taken.

Hungary held its first secret ballot elections in 1920, voting, perplexingly, for a monarchy. There being no king was a problem, but Admiral Miklós Horthy was appointed (his experience leading the navy of a land-locked country apparently fitting him for the equally paradoxical role of elected king).