The Joy of Six: Olympic football tournament stories | Scott Murray

From British dominance to riots and the upstaging of Adolf Hitler, half a dozen memorable tales from the Games

1) Denmark 9-0 Athens (demonstration event final, Athens 1906)

It's 1900. In times yet to come, British football administrators would infamously cock their haughty snooks at the World Cup, the European Cup, and the European Championship. Myopic and thoroughly abject clowns we. But back in the early days of the Olympic Games, Britain happily takes its place in the vanguard of the world game

A Great Britain team competed in a demonstration event at the 1900 Games in Paris. Upton Park FC nothing whatsoever to do with West Ham United, before Hammers fans try to claim a second world championship win for themselves were Britain's representatives. The amateurs from East London beat a... [via Guardian - Football]