Happy birthday to one of Italian football’s cult players - Dario Hübner.

Became the oldest top-scorer in Italy when he bagged 24 goals for Piacenza in 2001-02 aged 35.

Also prolific in Serie B & Serie A in the 90s with Cesena & Brescia.

April 27th 1994.

“He must have a foot like a traction engine!”

🎥 FC Barcelona

Happy 81st birthday to FC Nantes, formed #OnThisDay in 1943, when 5 local teams merged to create a single club.

Their iconic kits lead to a cracking nickname - “La Maison Jaune” (the Yellow House).

Everyone talks about how Pep and Klopp have been great for English football

But this will be one of their legacies

Constant whining about too many games

Incidentally, the stats show a PL club has on average one FA Cup replay every 3 years. Hardly enough reason to change rules

40 years ago today:

Claudio Gentile marks Zico as #Juventus beat #Udinese 3:2 at the Stadio Comunale.

#OTD 1989. UEFA Cup semi-final, 2nd leg.

Dynamo Dresden vs VfB Stuttgart.

Stuttgart striker Jürgen Klinsmann tries to evade the challenge of Matthias Sammer. The match finishes 1:1 & Stuttgart go through to the final 2:1 on aggregate.

#OTD in 1975, Claudio Gentile made his debut for Italy against Poland.

Unsurprisingly, they kept a clean sheet.

Nothing to see here, just Alfredo Di Stéfano enjoying a crafty fag.

Bobby Baggio.

Happy birthday to Clarence Clyde Seedorf.

Great footballer. Great bloke.

Ajax, Sampdoria, Real Madrid, Inter, Milan, Botafogo. And, of course, the Netherlands 🇳🇱

Llegué temprano a la cancha

It's a shame that a lower league club owned by a film star gets far more attention than the community ownership model of Exeter City.

There is another way to do football, we should be shouting it from the rooftops.

Hungarian football legend Ferenc Puskás was born #OnThisDay in 1927.

Incredible goal-scoring record for his 2 clubs, Honvéd & Real Madrid, as well as 84 goals in 85 games for the Mighty Magyars.

Read a few articles today on Cryuff’s ‘spite season’ at Feyenoord when he went there to troll Ajax.

Ended up down the rabbit hole that took me to the day they won the league away at Willem II.

Looked absolutely chaotic.

🎂 - Buon compleanno Giancarlo Antognoni - 70 today!

🎥 Nazionale Italiana ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

🎂 - Giancarlo Antognoni.

What a player. Beautiful elegant playmaking midfielder with Fiorentina for 15 years in the 70s & 80s.

Sadly missed out on the 1982 World Cup final after injury in the semi-final.

Magnificent 👌

🎂 - Alexei Mikhailichenko. Attacking midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv, Sampdoria, Rangers, USSR & Ukraine.

🎂 - Happy Birthday Rui Costa.

The attacking midfield playmaker was one of the finest players of the 90s & one of Portugal's greatest ever. Played for Benfica & Milan, but his 7 year spell at Fiorentina is how we best remember him.

Happy 111th birthday to Club Atlético Aldosivi, formed #OTD in 1913 in the Argentine city of Mar del Plata. The club's name comes from the 1st 2 letters of each of their founders: Allard, Doulfus, Sillard & Wiriott. 'w' was changed to 'v' because it wasn't available to telegraph!