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Scottish Football League First Division top-scorers
Overview top-scorers Scottish Football League First Division: 1890-91: John Watson Bell (Dumbarton) – 20 goals; 1891-92: John Watson Bell (Dumbarton) – 23 goals; 1892-93: John
Liverpool on collision course with the FA
Wednesday, August 1 – 1990 The FA chiefs are furious that Liverpool are backing the return to a 22-club First Division. A League meeting at
Anfield gets angry at fixture jam
Thursday, May 4 – 1989 Liverpool reacted angrily yesterday as the Football League set a deadline for them to complete their fixtures. The League want
At 32, Emlyn’s even younger
Tuesday, August 28 – 1979 Emlun Hughes today spends his 32nd birthday performing his favourite party piece – playing football. The colours have changed from
New date at Anfield
Wednesday, December 23 – 1970 Liverpool’s home First Division match with Manchester City, postponed because of the European Fairs Cup-tie at Liverpool tonight, will be
Steve Heighway – Kicking off with a degree
Monday, December 7 – 1970 Steve Heighway, summer graduate BA in politics and economics, is wintering well among the masters of English First Division football.
Interview with the Liverpool F.C. chairman Harold Cartwright
Saturday, August 10 – 1968 For two years, Liverpool have come within an ace of adding further successes to those they achieved in the previous
Bill Shankly prepares for a new season
Thursday, August 13 – 1964 Liverpool, Thursday: Bill Shankly, the dynamo behind League champions Liverpool, thumped the desk in his office under the main stand
Liverpool want Tony Knapp
Wednesday, July 12 – 1961 Tony Knapp, 22-year-old Leicester centre half, now has a choice of going to Southampton or Liverpool. Mr. Bill Shankly, the
Albert Stubbins to coach New York F.C.
April 22, 1960 A squad of First Division starlets will be loaned to the New York Football Club next month to play in the glamorous
The death of Mr. William John Harrop
February 21, 1956 Mr. William John Harrop, chairman of Liverpool Football Club, died at his home in Marlborough Road, Liverpool, early yesterday at the age
Dave Hickson transferred to Huddersfield Town
November 23, 1955 Aston Villa centre-forward Dave Hickson was transferred to Huddersfield last night, less than three months after joining them from Everton at a
Liverpool relegation has sad sequel
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
The manager who would not give up
December 28, 1953 Behind 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),
Liverpool pay out £50,000
Friday, December 25 – 1953 Liverpool, bottom of the First Division table, yesterday spent another £30,000 in securing the transfers of left-back Frank Lock and
The Football League to adopt Arsenal F.C.’s amendment
May 7, 1945 Football officials from all over the country, many with famous players of the past, now managers, to advise them, met at Manchester
Liverpool with only nine available players
Thursday, August 31 – 1939 Twenty Liverpool players yesterday changed soccer clothes for uniforms, paraded as Territorials in the 9th King’s Regiment, Liverpool (K.L.R.), and
Chesterfield drawn at home to Liverpool
January 16, 1932 Worse teams than Chesterfield have beaten better teams than Liverpool in previous years’ FA Cup matches, and if Chesterfield face Liverpool on
Season preview 1930-31: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 25, 1930 Liverpool will rely in the main on the same players as last season, and are hoping that they will not strike such
The romance of Royal Arsenal
January 5, 1925 1,000 up: A story of pioneers. The pioneers in London of League football, as understood in these days, were a team called
Prime Minister Baldwin at Anfield
November 3, 1923 Lord Derby advised the Liverpool Football Club to-day that the Prime Minister (Mr. Stanley Baldwin) would join him in visiting the Liverpool
Chelsea the best supported club
May 5, 1920 The total number of spectators at last season’s games connected with the two divisions of the Football League was nearly 17,000,000, and
Tottenham Hotspur and the First Division 1919-20
January 31, 1919 Tottenham Hotspur, who finished last in the First League Division of 1914-15, and would in ordinary circumstances have figured in company with
Arsenal or ‘Spurs for First Division
January 30, 1919 It was assumed yesterday by a contemporary that in the event of the Football League being extended to forty-four clubs Chelsea and
