Wolves v Honved
Monday 13th December 1954
 

	Wolverhampton Wanderers	3 Swinbourne (2), Hancocks (pen)	2 Kocsis, Machos	Kispest-Honved
Team		Attendance: 55,000		Team
Williams				Farago
Stuart				Palicsko
Shorthouse				Kovaks
Slater				Bozsik
Wright				Lorant
Flowers				Banyai
Hancocks				Budai
Broadbent				Kocsis
Swinbourne				Machos
Wilshaw				Puskas
Smith				Czibor

Television cameras were present again in December for the arrival from Budapest of Honved, who fielded six members of the Hungarian team who had gained that historic 6-3 success at Wembley in 1953. They had proved it was no fluke by pasting England 7-1 at home, so national pride needed restoring.
The Hungarians came to Molineux on 13th December 1954, fielding five of the players who had humilated England. Of the Wolves team, only Billy Wright, the captain, had been on the recieving end of those two heavy international defeats.
Wolves wore a special satin version of the old gold shirt which they believed would look better under the floodlights.
The game started and building quick, controlled attacks Honved were 2-0 up after 14 minutes, to the despair of a crowd that was just a couple short of being the 10th of 55,000 at Molineux since the war. Wolves finally opened their account with a Hancocks penalty just after half-time, and from then on the atmosphere was electric. Only 15 minutes remained when Swinbourne got his head to a Wilshaw lob to give Wolves a deserved equaliser. Within 100 seconds Shorthouse, Smith and Wilshaw combined beautifully to set up Swinbourne, who conjured up a fine hooked shot to put Wolves in front as a crescendo of noise filled the stadium. Even the legendary Puskas could not save Honved with the score staying at 3-2, a result that made front page headlines in at least one national newspaper as Wolves were proclaimed champions of the world!