Thursday, January 8 – 1914
The Liverpool Cup team will be chosen to-night, and will not include the name of R. Ferguson, but is pretty certain to include Campbell in goal in spite of the fact that the Liverpool goalkeeper was kicked in the eye and on the groin in the Sunderland match.
He has made good progress, and so far as I can see the Liverpool team will not be changed from last week’s side, MacKinlay, therefore, appearing at half back. He is a versatile fellow, MacKinlay, and I have a deep-set memory of his fine defence at full back when Crawford was injured in the Cup-tie at Newcastle last season.
He has played in all the lines except goal, and on Saturday last he had his chance to play there, as Campbell retired from the game for a while. Lacey, however, was called up to keep goal.
This reminds me that Liverpool have had deputy goalkeepers more than once in recent seasons. On one occasion Hardy did not turn up for a holiday match, and Jim Bradley kept goal, and on another Billy Dunlop guarded the sticks.
Bradley is still playing the game, and on Saturday next he appears before the Aston Villa crowd. Gracious! What a long record he has. I recall him when he was nineteen years old playing for Stoke against Derby County in the semi-final tie at Wolverhampton.
Afterwards Bradley did Liverpool good service, and he was a member of the Reading team that scalped Villa in the Cup-tie two seasons ago. Stoke never get very far in the Cup tournament, yet I was at one of their matches – and was posted behind the goal where the incident I am about to relate occurred – when they had gross bad luck.
The ball had beaten “Nat” Robinson, Small Heath goalkeeper, and had crossed the line. He scooped it away after it had crossed the line, and the referee being out of distance gave “no goal.”
Extra time was, therefore, necessary, and the team that deserved to lose won, that team not being Stoke.
(Liverpool Echo, 08-01-1914)
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