This World Cup has nothing on 1954, say football hipsters
FOOTBALL hipsters have dismissed suggestions that the current World Cup is the greatest of all time, insisting that it is vastly inferior to Switzerland ’54.
Vintage football devotees have firmly rejected such notions that the 2014 World Cup, with its exhilarating matches in spectacular surroundings, could compare to sixty years ago.
Wayne Hayes, a self-described enganche enthusiast, said: “Anyone who compares Holland versus Spain to the ‘Miracle of Berne’ is frankly delusional.
“1954 had everything: a goal-per-game average of 5.38, the Magical Magyars, and a cutting-edge, Bauhaus-meets-Mondrian logo.”
Hayes added that the Maracana in Rio was a pale imitation of 1954’s Wankdorf Stadium, and that Lionel Messi wasn’t fit to lace Sandor Kocsis’ boots.
Football blogger Joseph Turner disagreed with his analysis, however, saying that while Switzerland ’54 may have had loads of goals, goals were overrated.
Turner said: “The World Cup had gone mainstream by the fifties. I argue on my site BielsaIsGod.com that Italia ’34 was Italia ’90 without the branding.
“I’d bet my Dukla Prague away kit Wayne Hayes has never even heard of Oldrich Nejedly.”
The argument has since moved on to whether the 4-2-2-2 formation with inverted wingers was invented in Hungary or Brazil.