Blackburn Rovers v Liverpool 0-5 (Friendly: September 30, 1939)

Saturday, September 30 – 1939
Match: Friendly, at Ewood Park.
Blackburn Rovers – Liverpool 0-5 (0-3).
Attendance: .
Referee: Mr. A. Cunliffe (Blackburn).
Blackburn Rovers (2-3-5): Jim Barron, Ernie Lanceley, Walter Crook, Billy Lee, Bob Pryde, Jock Wightman, Billy Rogers, Len Butt, Tom Hargreaves, Bobby Langton, Jack Chew.
Liverpool (2-3-5): Arthur Riley, Jim Harley, Bernard Ramsden, Matt Busby, Tom Bush, Jack Easdale, Berry Nieuwenhuys, Phil Taylor, Willie Fagan, Jack Balmer, Herman Van den Berg.
The goals: 0-1 Taylor (15 min.), 0-2 Balmer (22 min., assist: Fagan), 0-3 Nieuwenhuys (42 min.), 0-4 Fagan, 0-5 Taylor.

Match reports:
** Liverpool Daily Post: “Liverpool’s classic display.”;
** Evening Express: “It ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it.”;

Phil Taylor, Liverpool F.C.

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