Tuesday, June 5 – 1917
The conferment of a barony upon Sir W.H. Lever and the interest evinced in the title the new poor would adopt recalls a good story. Some years ago an Everton football team went to Port Sunlight to play a math and inaugurate the new football ground. Mr. Lever, as he was then, had consented to kick-off.
Everton had lost the toss, and Mr. Lever was just about to send the ball on its journey with a big kick when Paddy Sheridan, one of the Everton players, probably fearing that the gentleman might land the ball somewhere in the vicinity of the home goalkeeper, cried out, to the amusement of Mr. Lever and players and spectators alike; “Don’t kick down there; put it over here, Mr. Sunlight.”
(Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury, 05-06-1917)
Paddy Sheridian – Jimmy Sheridan.
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