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.
West Bromwich Albion v Liverpool 0-2 (League match)
Saturday, December 29 – 1979 Match: Football League, First Division, at The Hawthorns, kick-off: 15:00. West Bromwich Albion – Liverpool 0-2 (0-2). Attendance: 34,915. Referee:
– 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
Would you like the Liverpool sound behind your goalkeeper?
Saturday, November 9 – 1963 Yeah, yeah, yeah … the new Liverpool Sound may be a baby-faced Beatle telling you that she loves you. But
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
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
Death of Sir Frederick Wall
March 25, 1944 Sir Frederick Wall, secretary of the Football Association for forty years, died on Saturday night. He was eighty-five and had been in
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
F.A. Commission over a knee injury
March 9, 1938 A Football Association Commission at the Midland Hotel, Derby, this afternoon, inquired into incidents in the F.A. Cup fourth round replay between
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March 2 – 1938 “Unpleasant reflections” on the Crystal Palace F.C. made in the Liverpool F.C. programme will be withdrawn by order of the
Female football secretary? Not for the Lancashire FA
December 14, 1937 “The position is intolerable,” said Mr. Charles Sutcliffe, president of Lancashire Football Association, yesterday, referring to the Football Association’s decision that women
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
English trial match at Anfield
March 3, 1930 Meeting at the new headquarters of the Football Association, yesterday, the International Selection Committee chose the teams for the international trial match,
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
The death of Dr James Baxter
January 27, 1928 Dr James Baxter, one of the founders of Everton Football Club, and a director from 1890, died at Liverpool yesterday, at the
Arsenal the first team to play with a white football
August 5, 1927 The Arsenal Football Club’s experiment of playing their trial game on August 20 with a ball painted white is not, in the
"Play Up, Liverpool" 
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