Gary Neville celebrates birthday in style as Valencia make unique piece of history

Winning is a good habit.

Losing is a bad habit. But it seems that Gary Neville may finally be getting used to that winning feeling as his Valencia side have made history in the Europa league tonight. The former Manchester United full-back has endured a torrid start to life as a manager but it seems there are green shoots of recovery emerging in the spring sunshine in Spain. Neville won his first La Liga game at the weekend, and on Thursday his charges have made a piece of history on their manager’s 41st birthday, as they hit their Europa League opponents Rapid Vienna for five goals inside the opening 45 minutes. https://twitter.com/EuropaLeague/status/700421802653261825 Neville has struggled to get his players listening or taking instructions but it’s nice to see them try a leg on his birthday at least. https://twitter.com/Squawka/status/700425189163712512 And of course some people just could not resist tweeting and making it about them. https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/700421823993946112 Although the win just highlighted how bad things had become under the ex-TV pundit https://twitter.com/WhoScored/status/700420535637929984