On this day in 2007: The youngest member of England’s World Cup winning team, Alan Ball, died aged just 61.

Johan Cruyff still doing bits at 34…

Everton's nickname 'The Toffees' came about after #Everton moved to Goodison close to Mother Noblett's toffee shop.

The Toffee Lady would walk around the perimeter of the pitch before the start of a game tossing free Everton Mints into the crowd 🍬

On this day in 1985:

Everton took Bayern Munich apart at Goodison Park in the Cup Winners Cup semi-final, second leg.

Back in the days before Mbappe, Messi and Ronaldo we had Maradona and……Huckerby.

Some goal this.

Happy birthday Darren Huckerby

Happy St George’s Day!

Fucking come on, indeed.

Slaying a ferocious, fire-breathing dragon you say 🔥🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿oh go on then, over to you Becks.

Happy #StGeorgesDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

“Only Irishman who doesn’t know where Dublin is….” etc etc

It’s no Gary Crosby but top shithousery from Dion Dublin.

Happy birthday to Dion Dublin, seen here being owned by Mark Chapman

Football stickers once more in the news. Of course this isn't the first time that licensing issues have impacted tournament album releases. There was plenty about that in the 1st edition of 'Stuck On You'. It's the 10th anniversary of its release next year. Time for an update?!

VAR has totally ruined football

It’s 7 years today that Ugo Ehiogu was tragically taken from us

38 years ago today:

2 teams from Div 1 who finished 18th & 13th contested a cup final at Wembley in a rare, televised game.

It wasn’t about money, it was about the glory & the fans.

See what it means to the winners, Oxford United.

Great days, days that will never come back.

In 2000 famous fatty, David Ginola (ask John Gregory) scored his first goal for Villa and proceeded to strip.

Ooh la la indeed.

Nottingham Forest legend Trevor Francis would have been 70 today. He will be fondly remembered for scoring the winning goal in the 1979 European Cup Final 🩷🌳🏹 #COYR

How many can you name?

Quiz: European Championship Finalists thehexblog.com/2024/04/19/qui… via TheHex

Happy heavenly birthday to St Francis of St Andrews 💙🕊️ #BCFC

That famous and oft mentioned Manchester United tour of Swaziland in 1983. Worth noting the honours list pre Fergie.

Back in 1976 #WestHamUnited turned around a first leg deficit against German side #EintrachtFrankfurt to progress to the final of the Cup Winners Cup final.

Can they repeat that feat tonight? ⚒️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪

Name a better #FACup replay?

Everton 4 Liverpool 4 thehexblog.com/2021/12/01/eve… via TheHex