September 9 – Man Utd Sell Out and Happy Birthday Aki

Manchester United are snapped up and we celebrate one of the game’s characters in today’s trip through the OTFD history vaults.

1976 – Happy Birthday Aki Riihilahti

Today at On This Football Day we’d like to wish one of football’s more eccentric characters a very Happy Birthday. The mad Finnish midfielder Aki Riihilahti is thirty-one today. Whilst his performances for the likes of Crystal Palace were not that of a Cruyff or a Maradona, Aki was hard-working on the pitch and a bit of a live-wire off it. Find out just how crazy the Finn is here.

1998 – Manchester United Sell Out

AS multi-million pound takeovers are all the rage in Manchester at the moment we thought we’d bring you the story of a former suitor of the second biggest team in they city, as today in 1998 United confirmed they had accepted a bid from BSkyB to buy the club. Read on here.

Can anyone translate Aki’s ramblings for us? If we know Aki (and unfortunatley we don’t), we bet it’s worth it.