WAY back in the day, I had a cat called Ferenc, named after the legendary Hungarian footballer Ferenc Puskas.

His full name was Ferenc pusscat, which I thought was hilarious, but it drew a blank look from many folk not versed in football.

I have always had a strange fascination with Hungarian football, fuelled by grainy black and white images from behind the Iron Curtain of teams such as Honved and Ujpest Djoza.

The players all had great names too, such as Aberdeen legend Zoltan Varga, who played for just one season in the north east but is still talked about in hushed tones to this day.

There was also Istvan Kozma, who rocked up at Dunfermline before earning a big money move to Liverpool.

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But the greatest of them all was the fabled and diminutive Puskas,........

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