In the city where the Magical Magyars beat England 7-1, Klopp’s side were rejuvenated as he taught the young apprentice Julian Nagelsmann a lesson
The main stadium in Budapest used to be the Nepstadion, or “People’s Stadium”: the vast marble-lined Communist-era monolith where the Magical Magyars beat England 7-1 in 1954 and Louis Armstrong played to 80,000 people in 1965.
A few years ago it was demolished and replaced by the Puskas Arena: a vast and costly monument to the vanity of Hungary’s right-wing populist prime minister Viktor Orban, and which for one night only was the designated home ground of RB Leipzig, a club from 500 miles away established by a soft drink company to get round Bundesliga ownership rules. If you wanted a snapshot of European football in 2021, then this felt like a pretty good place to start.
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