November 14, 1908
Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 14:35.
Liverpool – Preston North End 2-1 (2-1).
Attendance: 18,000.
Referee: Mr. G. Campbell.
Liverpool (2-3-5): Sam Hardy, Tom Chorlton, Percy Saul, Maurice Parry, Jim Harrop, James Bradley, Arthur Goddard, Robert Robinson, Jack Parkinson, Joe Hewitt, John Cox.
Preston North End (2-3-5): Peter McBride, William Lavery, Tommy Rodway, Jimmy Henderson, Joe McCall, Billy Lyon, Dickie Bond, James Wilson, Jack Platt, Herbert Danson, William Sanderson.
The goals: 1-0 Hewitt (6 min., assist: Parkinson), 1-1 Danson (10 min.), 2-1 Robinson (42 min.).
The Liverpool goals:
* The game was only six minutes old, however, when Liverpool were a goal ahead, thanks in the first place to smart tactics by Parkinson and Bradley, but chiefly to HEWITT, who just previously had been very slow in one movement. Here, however, he manoeuvred brilliantly for position, and then put in a fast low shot, from a seeming impossible position, with the result that the ball flashed into the near corner of the Preston net, leaving McBride helpless.
* then a rush by Liverpool won a rather unexpected goal, ROBINSON receiving from the right and shooting in obliquely. One of the Preston backs (presumably Lavery) turned the ball past McBride into the net. It was Robbie’s firs goal since the opening match of the season, and was certainly a rather lucky one.
(Source: Cricket and Football Field: November 14, 1908).
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