Monday, October 16 – 1893
The match (Small Heath vs. Liverpool) was marred by a very regrettable incident which occurred shortly after the commencement of the second half. Small Heath scored an equalising goal, but Liverpool claimed the ball had passed through a hole in the side of the net.
The referee very properly refused to listen to the protest, and the Liverpool players, or at any rate a number of them, infused a considerable amount of roughness into their play. Joe McQue, the centre half, a strapping fellow weighing twelve or thirteen stone, was the chief offender, and at length he kicked Frank Mobley, the clever little centre of Small Heath in the abdomen. It was apparently an intentional kick, and the referee at once stopped the play.
Scarcely had he done so, however, than Caesar Jenkyns, the Small Heath captain, incensed at the act of McQue dashed at the Scotchman and threw him to the ground. For this he was ordered off the field, and took no further part in the game.
(Birmingham Daily Post, 16-10-1893)
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