Interview with the Liverpool manager of 1899

Saturday, September 23 – 1899
HUNTING FOR MEN:
A SECRETARY’S EXPERIENCES
By Tom Watson (Secretary Liverpool Football Club)

Those of my readers who expect to find “Hunting for men” a vivid account of an exciting cross country run with, say, the Quorn Hunt, and a kill at the finish, will be disappointed. I am no Nimrod. I have never ridden to hounds, and I can offer them no hints on how to clear a five barred gate, and leap the stream instead of ignobly swimming through, in pursuit of a flying fox. My “Hunting for Men” has been that of a football secretary.

ANXIOUS TO SECURE THE BEST KICKERS FOR HIS CLUB
And if some people think the sport inferior in interest and excitement to chasing a fox, that is because they have not gone through what I have experienced, or they would hold a very different opinion. The professional…