Saturday, December 5 – 1896
The Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday night secured the transfer of John Lyden, inside right forward of the Chorley Club, for the sum of £100. Lyden is a Bolton youth, who a season ago played for the Bolton Wanderers. He is short, but speedy and clever, and undoubtedly the best forward of the team which on Saturday played the Blackburn Rovers to a draw and which boasts of being the only unbeaten club in England. (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 08-12-1896)
NOTE: Lyden played one match for Liverpool in April 1895 against Bolton Wanderers in the County Palatine League.
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