After holding competitive games during the first year of the Great War, the Football Associations of England and Scotland decided to discontinue professional football at
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Liverpool v Chelsea 4-1 (League match)
Saturday, April 21 – 1990 Match: Football League, First Division, at Anfield, kick-off: 15:00. Liverpool – Chelsea 4-1 (2-0). Attendance: 38,431. Referee: Mr. R.G. Milford.
– The Royal Box is not for me, says Shankly
Friday, August 2 – 1974 Bill Shankly, who recently retired as the Liverpool manager, does not want to be treated like a king. He has
Shankly lashes Everton
Monday, January 3 – 1972 Liverpool manager Bill Shankly yesterday marched into an FA disciplinary court to clear £220,000 Arsenal superstar Alan Ball – then
The FA hands out tough suspension for Yeats
Wednesday, March 11 – 1964 Liverpool manager Bill Shankly and centre-half Ron Yeats, strode angrily from yesterday’s Football Association Disciplinary Committee meeting in Leicester. They
Kick off stands
Friday, March 22 – 1963 Mrs. Mirabelle Topham, who asked Liverpool Football Club to delay the kick off of their Cup tie with West Ham
The opponents know how to provoke Hickson
Wednesday, February 10 – 1960 Dave Hickson, controversial Liverpool centre forward, has been given a break by the Football Association. Hickson, sent off, against Sheffield
The scouse invasion of London
Saturday, April 29 – 1950 While rain drove the thousands of cup final fans into shops, cafes, museums and buses for shelter to-day, the ticket
Millwall F.C. manager suspended
Wednesday, July 31 – 1940 The English Football Association to-day announced that following a joint commission of the FA and League into the affairs of
Liverpool fined 20 guineas
March 27, 1939 The Football Association announced that Liverpool F.C. have been fined 20 guineas as the result of the alleged misconduct of their spectators
What Liverpool wrote about Palace
Wednesday, March 2 – 1938 “Unpleasant reflections” on the Crystal Palace F.C. made in the Liverpool F.C. programme will be withdrawn by order of the
Ernie elected Team Captain
Wednesday, July 15 – 1936 Liverpool F.C. have received notification from the Football Association stating that their request for the trial of two referees in
“Honest John” buried at Anfield cemetery
Thursday, March 26 – 1936 Every club in the Football League sent wreaths to the funeral at Liverpool on yesterday of Mr. John McKenna, who
John McKenna dies 82 years old
March 22, 1936 One of the foremost leaders and legislators of the Association football game of all time, Mr. John McKenna, president of the Football
Morrison gone AWOL
Wednesday, March 13 – 1935 Liverpool F.C. have referred the case of Tom Morrison, their Scottish international right half back, who has mysteriously disappeared, to
Chelsea’s Hugh Gallacher suspended for two months
Tuesday, January 13 – 1931 The Football Association issued the following statement yesterday: – “Hugh Gallacher, Chelsea, centre-forward, has been suspended for two months from
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
The FA to BBC: “We do not approve the dictatorial attitude of your Corporation in this matter”
March 27, 1930 Correspondence which has passed between the B.B.C. and the Football Association with regard to a broadcast of the Football Association Cup final
FA clears Mackinlay of breach of rule
Tuesday, December 17 – 1929 Allegations against three International footballers – “Dixie” Dean (Everton), Donald Mackinlay (formerly Liverpool and now Prescot Cables), and Louis Page
A Liverpool director claims the Lancashire FA is guilty of Prussianism
June 9, 1923 Not the least interesting event during the past week has been the charge, made by a director of the Liverpool club, against
Wages and offside laws on the FA AGM agenda
Monday, May 29 – 1922 An English football player cannot now, be registered as a professional unless he receives not less than 10s a week
Kenneth Campbell thrilling narrative – Part III
Saturday, May 21 – 1921 The debt I owe to Sam Hardy, and how I displaced him in the Liverpool team By Kenneth Campbell. “Kenneth
Reds duo in South Africa
July 17, 1920 The F.A. eleven for the final Test against South Africa to-day at Cape Town will be: – H. Gough (Sheffield United), Ephraim
South Shields in the FA Cup
December 22, 1919 The following is the draw in the first round of the English Cup, to be played on the ground of the first-named
The death of Mr. John James Bentley
September 2, 1918 Mr. John James Bentley, a former president of the Football League, died suddenly this morning at his residence at Fairhaven. Mr. Bentley
"Play Up, Liverpool" 
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