Wednesday, February 9 – 1938 Prices offered on that FA Cup at Derby races yesterday were: 9-2 Arsenal, 11-2 Brentford, 7-1 Charlton Athletic and Sunderland,
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Jim Harley as J.H. Mitchell
January 2, 1936 An eighteen-year-old footballer yesterday won the most important prize in pedestrianism – the 130 yards Powderhall handicap final at Edinburgh. Name, J.H.
Sport in Relation to Every-day Life (David Pratt, ex-Liverpool F.C.)
Tuesday, June 11 – 1930 Sport as a passion Football manager on an “enemy of soul” Value & danger of spectacular games “Sport as a
Tommy Cunliffe banned for life
Monday, October 29 – 1917 At the sitting of the Football Commision appointed by the Lancashire Football Association, at Preston, yesterday, Thomas Cunliffe, the well-known
Awaiting the joint Football Commission’s report
November 12, 1915 It is expected that the report of the joint Commission of the Football Association and the Football League in the Liverpool and
Bankrupt Manchester United footballer
August 31, 1915 George Edward Travers, one of Manchester United Football Club’s players, appeared for public examination at the Salford Bankruptcy Court yesterday. In his
The football betting bill
Thursday, April 16 – 1914 A memorandum accompanying the text of the Ready Money Football Betting Bill, issued yesterday, shows the measure deals solely with
Liverpool match was not “squared”
Tuesday, April 23 – 1912 A commission appointed by the Football League sat at York yesterday to inquire into the result of the Newcastle United
1,539 pubs in Liverpool in 1911
Tuesday, July 4 – 1911 The Head Constable of Liverpool has just issued in voluminous forms his report on the police establishment and the state
Football betting in Liverpool
Tuesday, February 26 – 1907 Degrading the game At the Liverpool Police-court, yesterday, before Messrs. R.G. Bradley and C.H. Hayhurst, Paul McCann, a respectable-looking man,
Gambling money changing hands in the Sunderland shipyards
Friday, April 6 – 1906 Speaking at Sunderland, Councillor William Walker said that 30,000 football gambling coupons were issued in Sunderland shipyards, and £2,500 changed
John Cox: The runner
July 22, 1905 There was a fair attendance at Liverpool Football Grounds on Saturday, when Alec Nelson, of London (half-mile champion), and John Cox (left
A bet gone wrong
January 21, 1893 Shortly after five o’clock on Saturday evening a woman passing along York-street, Bury, saw a man climb over the boarding (about 7ft.
Aston Villa F.C.: The annual meeting of 1892
June 17, 1892 The annual meeting of the members of the Aston Villa Football Club was held on Friday, Mr. James Hinks (president) in the
The first ever Grand National
February 26, 1839 This event, of which so much has been said and written, and which has created so great a sensation in all the
"Play Up, Liverpool" 
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