Tuesday, May 3 – 2016 Barca looking to gain insight into how to redevelop a football ground while continuing to play in it. Officials from
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New finding regarding the famous flagpole at Anfield
Most historian connected to Liverpool F.C. or football in general have taken it for granted that the flagpole at the corner of The Kop and
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
Merseyside dockers returning to work on Monday
Friday, November 2 – 1945 Merseyside dockers, at their mass meeting at Anfield football ground today, indicate by a show of hands their decision to
Liverpool FC buy the Prescot Football ground
May 21, 1945 Liverpool Football Club have completed arrangement for the acquisition of the Prescot Football Club ground for post-war purposes. A deputation from the
A gymnasium in the Anfield ground car park?
Tuesday, March 13 – 1945 Like other senior clubs, Liverpool F.C. are looking ahead to post-war requirements. Their negotiations with Prescot Cables are only one
Orrell Lane or Prescot Cables for Liverpool F.C.?
Tuesday, March 13 – 1945 Liverpool F.C. are negotiating for a ground for the development of their junior sides after the war, and an approach
Physical training for the public
July 5, 1940 Mr. J. Morton, the Tranmere Rovers trainer (left), instructing members of the public in recreative physical culture at the Rovers’ Football Ground
Football and the Sandon Hotel
May 4, 1940 The Sandon Hotel in Oakfield Road would be found to be connected prominently with football if ever the history of the game
The football season extended until June 8,1940
March 4, 1940 The FA fix June 8 as final day. The Football Association yesterday decided to extend the season by five weeks, until June
Cinemas and football grounds to open in some areas
September 9, 1939 Ban to remain on Merseyside. The Government has decided to permit theatres, cinemas, football grounds and other places of entertainment in neutral
Liverpool players’ report for training
July 27, 1939 Liverpool players reported at the Anfield ground yesterday, and Everton receive their members at Goodison Park on Monday. Mr. Will Harrop, the
Men at work at Anfield
Saturday, January 7 – 1939 Men at work clearing the snow from Liverpool Football Ground yesterday for to-day’s Cup-tie against Luton Town. (Liverpool Daily Post,
Few lines on Robert Scott
Friday, September 23 – 1938 Snapshot of the Wolves Robert Alexander Scott (goal, 6ft. 2in., 13st.). Born at Liverpool. Educated within a stone’s throw of
Their summer game
Sunday, June 19 – 1927 Two Liverpool players whose prowess on the bowling green is well known in the vicinity of Anfield are Tommy Lucas
Season preview 1923-24: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 20, 1923 Liverpool are optimists. The players believe they can improve upon last season’s record, and that they can again head the League chart,
Manchester City’s new ground
Monday, July 24 – 1922 The construction of Manchester City’s new ground at Maine-road, Moss Side, in that city, will be commenced during this week,
Costume carnival at Anfield
Monday, February 14 – 1921 A costume carnival was held on Monday at the Liverpool Football Club’s Ground, Anfield, the proceeds to be distributed between
Sweet Everton Valley for the old-timers
Wednesday, November 17 – 1920 A veteran’s memories of Arcadian Liverpool Fifty years ago! The white and grey haired veterans of today, as they sit
Mrs. Tom Watson passes away
Monday, September 24 – 1917 Mr. George Patterson, the Liverpool F.C. secretary, informs us that to-day, at 12.5 p.m., Mrs. Tom Watson passed away. It
French leave for two footballers
March 13, 1916 Stated to be old members of the Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club, two absentees named Horace Linkson and Wilfred Nixon, of the
War horses at Manchester City’s ground?
Tuesday, August 4 – 1914 To-day comes news that this morning Captain Paxton, the adjutant of the Manchester Artillery, visited the Manchester City Football Ground
New headquarters for QPR
Saturday, July 25 – 1914 Queen’s Park Rangers Football Club are to transfer their headquarters from Park Royal to a new enclosure situated within a
Manchester architect take his own life
Wednesday, March 11 – 1914 A well-known Manchester architect, Mr. Bernard W.H. Brameld, was was a bachelor fifty-nine years old, was found dead at his
Someone wanted to burn down Deepdale
April 26, 1913 At Preston North End Football Ground, Deepdale, early this morning, a policeman found two large portmanteau secreted underneath the stand. These combined
