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Season preview 1938-39: Liverpool F.C. (Liverpool Echo)
August 27, 1938 Liverpool F.C.: Team of all the thrills Pessimists may not see eye to eye with me, because, if anything I am given
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
Season preview 1929/30: New Brighton F.C. (The Athletic News)
August 5, 1929 Optimism is the keynote at Rake-lane, for the management have got together a side likely to eclipse records of previous seasons. The
Season preview 1927/28 – Bury F.C. (The Athletic News)
Monday, August 22 – 1927 Bury have benefited by the lessons of last season, when the misfortunes they experienced found them inadequately served in the
Season preview 1926-27: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 23, 1926 Optimism is the note at Anfield, and this appears to arise mainly from the knowledge that there is not likely to be
Season preview 1925-26: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 24, 1925 Liverpool are not likely to experience the same difficulty with which they were faced towards the end of last season, when forward
Season preview 1917-18: Liverpool F.C. (Star Green ‘Un)
August 25, 1917 Anfield stars again on view. Liverpool have already held their trial match in which they brought out quite a number of novices,
Season preview 1915-16: Brentford F.C. (West London Observer)
August 27, 1915 A new player, Private F.C. Keenor, of the Footballers Battalion has definitely promised to regularly assist Brentford in the coming season, until
Season preview 1913-14: Oldham Athletic (Athletic News)
August 25, 1913 Some clubs can spend thousands of pounds on ground improvements without worrying about such things as bank overdrafts and personal loans from
Season preview 1913/14 – Sheffield United (The Athletic News)
Monday, August 25 – 1913 Sheffield United have dispensed with many of last season’s players, and engaged many new ones. What their fortune will be
Season preview 1913/14 – Sheffield Wednesday (The Athletic News)
Monday, August 25 – 1913 Although the policy of the Wednesday directorate in regard to David McLean receives general support in Sheffield, some anxiety and
Season preview 1913/14 – West Bromwich Albion (The Athletic News)
Monday, August 25 – 1913 West Bromwich Albion retain their reputation for having a local side. The most important addition to their ranks is a
Season preview 1912-13: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 26, 1912 Having escaped the clutches of the Second Division by the merest margin last April, it is only natural to suppose that the
Season preview 1911-12: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 28, 1911 The Anfield club, who have thirty-one players on their wage-list, should be able to place a strong eleven on the field to
Season preview 1909-10: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 23, 1909 It is difficult to express with any degree of accuracy the prospects of the Anfielders for the coming season. The wearisome experiences
Season preview 1908-09: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 31, 1908 Liverpool. There are few changes of note at Anfield, though whether this is a favourable omen or otherwise will be determined in
Season preview 1906-07: Barrow F.C. (Soulby’s Ulverston Advertiser)
August 30, 1906 Barrow Football Club. Once more the whirling of time has brought us round to another football season, and on Saturday the game
Season preview 1906-07: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 20, 1906 Liverpool, having provided themselves with an up-to-date enclosure, now possess a home worthy of their title as League champions. Last season they
Season preview 1905-06: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 14, 1905 Liverpool’s return to the First Division fold was a matter for congratulation amongst all followers of football in the city, and it
Season preview 1904-05: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 29, 1904 For the third time in the history of the club, Liverpool have to wade through the Second Division, a result directly due
Season preview 1903-04: Liverpool F.C. (Lancashire Evening Post)
August 22, 1903 Liverpool are beginning the season with a highly-experimental team. Three veteran players have left in Sam Raybould, John Glover, and William Goldie;
Season preview 1902-03: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 25, 1902 One year League champions; the next, struggling to retain their place in the First Division; such has been the fate of the
Season preview 1901-02: Liverpool F.C. (Athletic News)
August 26, 1901 In many respects my remarks concerning the composition of the Everton team are applicable to the Anfield Club. With one exception the
Season preview 1901-02: Oswaldtwistle Rovers F.C. (Lancashire Evening Post)
August 17, 1901 Oswaldtwistle Rovers are looking forward with confidence to a more satisfactory season than they experienced last winter, when everything appeared to militate
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