http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10200154.stmAs England and the US prepare to meet on 12 June for their first game of the World Cup in South Africa, the BBC's Kevin Connolly reflects on the two sides' last World Cup encounter, in 1950.It is still the sporting surprise against which all other sporting surprises should be measured.
On the world's greatest stage, a team of amateur and semi-professional footballers from the United States beat the footballing aristocrats of England.
You need to think in terms of a British college baseball team beating the New York Yankees or a pub cricket team triumphing over the Australian test cricket side to get a feel for what it meant back then.
The US line-up included a postman, a mill-worker and, appropriately enough from England's point of view, a funeral director.
One or two of their players were not able to make the trip to host country Brazil because they couldn't get time off work.