Leo Horn - International Football

International Football

In the 1950s he was placed in charge of the England v Hungary (1953) international at Wembley Stadium and refereed the second European Champions' Cup final in 1957. Horn is one of only four men to have refereed two European Champions' Cup finals, he refereed the 1963 version between Benfica and Real Madrid. It was during that game that he courted controversy when denying Madrid a penalty claim and being surrounded by their players. Ferenc Puskás was seen to throw something into the crowd. Ken Jones, an English journalist, later asked Horn why he had not cautioned Puskás. Horn replied: "What you don't know is that I threw my whistle at Puskás," Horn said. "It hit him in the ear." (It was the whistle that Puskás had thrown into the crowd.