The Athletic News is an amazing source for information about football history; about players an clubs and all the stories in-between. The sports paper focused

The history of Liverpool Football Club, their home at Anfield and all the people.
The Athletic News is an amazing source for information about football history; about players an clubs and all the stories in-between. The sports paper focused
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
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
Thursday, May 4 – 1989 Liverpool reacted angrily yesterday as the Football League set a deadline for them to complete their fixtures. The League want
Tuesday, August 28 – 1979 Emlun Hughes today spends his 32nd birthday performing his favourite party piece – playing football. The colours have changed from
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
Monday, December 7 – 1970 Steve Heighway, summer graduate BA in politics and economics, is wintering well among the masters of English First Division football.
Saturday, August 10 – 1968 For two years, Liverpool have come within an ace of adding further successes to those they achieved in the previous
Thursday, August 13 – 1964 Liverpool, Thursday: Bill Shankly, the dynamo behind League champions Liverpool, thumped the desk in his office under the main stand
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 Liverpool manager,
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
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
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
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
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),
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
January 18, 1919 Chelsea have appealed to the Management Committee of the Football League to consider the position in which the club is at present
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