During the 1903/04 season the “Sunderland Daily Echo” enlightened their readers with some great article features presenting many of the leading football club for that season. I have now collected all these feature articles and you will find links to the different articles further down in this article. […]
Monday, August 1 – 2005 Liverpool have told clubs hunting Milan Baros: We want £7m. Aston Villa and German club Schalke 04 are keen on the Czech Republic striker but Liverpool insist they won’t sell him on the cheap. Now Schalke are expected to try to sign him […]
Saturday, February 23 – 1991 Caretaker manager Ronnie Moran is the even money favourite to succeed Kenny Dalglish, say bookies William Hill. He will be given a few weeks to prove himself. But if he fails there are other candidates at Anfield. Roy Evans, who works with Moran […]
All articles about Dick Edmed on PlayUpLiverpool. About Dick Edmed: Born: February 14 – 1904, in Gillingham. Passed away: February 14 – 1984, in Gillingham. Position: Outside right. Height: 5 feet, 9 1/2 inch (176 cm). Weight: 11 stone (70 kilos). Career: Chatham Central. Rochester. Gillingham. ** Transferred […]
Davies in media. About Idwal Davies: Born: August 17 – 1899, in Ewloe Green, in Wales. Passed away: June 7 – 1980, in Cowies Hill (Durban), in South Africa. Position: Centre forward, inside right. Height: Weight: Career: Conway, 1919. Buckley United, 1919. West Bromwich Albion, 1919. Southport, 1920. […]
All articles about John Miller on PlayUpLiverpool.com. About John Miller: Born: Passed away: Position: Centre forward. Height: Weight: Career: Union. Dumbarton, 1890. * 1890-91: 2-2 (Scottish League); 0-0 (FA Cup); * 1891-92: 21-14 (Scottish League); 4-3 (FA Cup). Liverpool: Signed: 1892 (outside Football League). * 1892-93: 21-22 (Lancashire […]
All articles about Walter Rowley on PlayUpLiverpool.com. About Walter Rowley: Born: April 14, 1891: Little Hulton, England. Passed away: March 22, 1976: Shrewsbury (Shropshire), England. Position: Centre-half. Height: Weight: Career: Farnworth Wednesday: 1907. Walkden Wednesday: 1908. Little Hulton Wednesday: 1909. Oldham Athletic: 1910. * 1910-11: 0-0 (Football League […]
Tuesday, May 14 – 1968 A capacity crowd of 10,000 is expected at South Liverpool’s Holly Park ground tomorrow evening to watch the might Real Madrid stars Alfredo di Stefano and Benfica goalkeeper Costa Pereira oppose each other in a charity match. The world wide reputations of these […]
All articles about Ephraim Longworth on PlayUpLiverpool.com. About Ephraim Longworth: Born: October 2, 1887: Halliwell (Lancashire), England. * His school admission log states he was born October 3, 1888. Passed away: January 7, 1968: Liverpool (Lancashire), England. Position: Right back. Height: 175 cm. (5ft. 8½in.); Weight: 74 kilos […]
Saturday, November 9 – 1963 Yeah, yeah, yeah … the new Liverpool Sound may be a baby-faced Beatle telling you that she loves you. But according to Mr. Danny Blanchflower, captain of Spurs, it is: “A dart whizzing through the air and hitting a goalkeeper’s head.” The dart […]
Saturday, August 29 – 1959 Bolton’s troubled boss Bill Ridding arrived home at three yesterday morning after watching Northampton’s 6ft leader Derek Leck score twice against Torquay. Rocked by two defeats and a critical ankle injury to centre forward Nat Lofthouse, Ridding also has had his scout’s approach […]
All articles about Joe Keetley on PlayUpLiverpool. About Joe Keetley: Born: June 28 – 1897, in Derby (Derbyshire), in England. Passed away: March – 1958, in Shardlow (Derbyshire), in England. Position: Inside left. Height: 178cm. (5ft. 10in.). weight: 70 kilos (11st. 0lbs.). Career: Victoria Ironworks, 1919. Bolton Wanderers, […]
Friday, September 7 – 1956 When Johnny Wheeler, Bolton Wanderers’ England wing half-back, signed for Liverpool yesterday, he completed a reversal of normal procedure. He had got himself a house before a transfer. Yesterday morning, Wheeler, born at Crosby, Liverpool, asked Bolton manager Bill Ridding for permission to […]
Thursday, August 11 – 1955 The death has taken place at Birmingham of Bert Freeman the former Everton and England international centre forward and the man who scored the goal for Burnley when they defeated Liverpool in the Cup Final of 1914 at Crystal Palace. Before the first […]
All articles about Jimmy Settle on PlayUpLiverpool.com. About Jimmy Settle: Born: September 5, 1875: Millom (Cumberland), England. Passed away: June 1, 1954: Horwich, England. Funeral / burial: June 5, 1954: St. Peter’s Church, Halliwell. Position: Inside left. Height: (5ft. 6in.); Weight: (11st.). Career: Bolton Wanderers: 1894. * 1894-95: […]
Monday, April 19 – 1954 A sad postscript to Liverpool’s departure from the First Division after forty-nine years was the announcement yesterday of the death of my old friend George Kay, their former manager. George resigned his position with the club in 1951 because of continued ill-health after […]
All articles about Harry Kay on PlayUpLiverpool.com. About Harry Kay: Born: 1885: Whitefield (Greater Manchester, Lancashire), England. Passed away: 1954. Position: Right back. Height: Weight: Career: Unsworth Parish Church: 1903. Bolton Wanderers: 1904. * 1904-05: 0-0 (FL 1). Leeds City: Signed: May, 1907. * 1907-08: 31-0 (FL 2). […]
Monday, December 28 – 1953Behind the £20,000 signing by Liverpool on Christmas Day of two Charlton players, full-back Frank Lock (£7,500) and inside-left John Evans (£12,500), is the story of the Manager Who Would Not Give Up. For weeks Liverpool manager Mr. Don Welsh has, between trips to […]
Friday, August 1 – 1952 Manager Don Welsh, of Liverpool, to-day signed on, at Southampton, 19-years-old Hugh Gerhardi, a wing-half from Thistle F.C. of Durban, South Africa. Gerhardi was recommended to Liverpool by Mr. Billy Butler, the former Bolton Wanderers’ player who is a personal friend of Manager […]
Thursday, July 3 – 1952 Liverpool, pioneers in bringing South African footballers to this country, will have another Springbok on their staff next season. He is Hugh Gerhardi, a 19-year-old wing-half from Thistle F.C., of Durban, one of the leading sides in that part of South Africa. Gerhardi […]
Monday, November 5 – 1951 Mr. Don Welsh, the Liverpool manager, who completed the transfer of Brian Jackson, eighteen-year-old, outside right, from Leyton Orient yesterday, will apply to Jackson’s commanding officer for leave to enable him to play against Bolton on Saturday. Jackson, who is in the RAOC […]
Wednesday, January 31 – 1951 Liverpool, like Newcastle United and Bolton Wanderers, are now without a manager. Yesterday, Mr. George Kay, the Liverpool chief, resigned the managership because of ill health. He has been at Anfield for fifteen years. The Liverpool club intend advertising for a new manager, […]
August 8, 1948 To many of his workmates in a Clyde shipyard 84-year-old Jimmy Brogan is just “the old bloke in the gatehouse.” Entirely unexpected is the fact that he used to crack in goals for Hearts, Hibs, and Bolton Wanderers before this century began, that he was […]
Thursday, August 30 – 1945 Liverpool’s tale of misfortune dated from mid-afternoon when several chosen players found they could not get away and Mr. George Kay had to get busy to fill gaps. This work brought a most welcome guest in the person of Peter Kippax, the Burnley […]
Wednesday, August 29 – 1945 Match: Football League, Northern Section, at Anfield, kick-off: 18:30. Liverpool – Bolton Wanderers 2-2 (1-1). Attendance: 17,437. Referee: Mr. W.B. Nixon (Manchester). Liverpool (2-3-5): Dirk Kemp, Bernard Ramsden, Jimmy McInnes, Harry Kaye, Tom Bush, Jack Pilling, Harry Eastham, Phil Taylor, Don Welsh, Jack […]
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