All articles about William Goldie on PlayUpLiverpool.com. About William Goldie: Born: January 22, 1878: Hurlford, in Scotland. Passed away: February 3, 1952: Hurlford, in Scotland. Position: Left half. Height: 170 cm. (5ft. 7in.); Weight: 72 kilos (11st. 4lb.). Career: Hurlford Thistle. Hurlford, 1892. Clyde. Liverpool: Signed: November 25, […]
December 16, 1915 Next Saturday’s game at Anfield brings to our memory a fishy smell. Stoke and Liverpool will ever be associated with one of the few fiascos ever played. Considering the number of games played, the number of fiascos is infinitesimal and this fact is due to […]
November 26, 1910 Match: Football League, Second Division, at Filbert Street. Leicester Fosse – Bradford 2-0 (0-0). Attendance: 3,000. Referee: Mr. H.T. Yates (Bolton). Leicester Fosse (2-3-5): Jonty Starbuck, Billy Henry, Sam Currie, Arthur Randle, Andy Aitken, William Goldie, George Travers, Shirley Hubbard, Jack Hall, Davie Walker, Fred […]
January 1, 1910 “For six seasons,” writes William Goldie, “I played for Liverpool without missing a match; although, of course, I was in the reserve team a good lot. Well, when I got my benefit it only totalled £109. At that time players were getting £300 and £400 […]
December 28, 1909 Match: Football League, Second Division, at Molineux. Wolverhampton Wanderers v Leicester Fosse 4-1 (1-1). Attendance: 10,000. Wolves (2-3-5): Tommy Lunn, Jackery Jones, George Garratly, Kenneth Hunt, Billy Wooldridge, Albert Bishop, Billy Harrison, Jack Shelton, Billy Blunt, George Hedley, Walter Radford. Leicester Fosse (2-3-5): Jonty Starbuck, […]
Saturday, December 11 – 1909 Match: Football League, Second Division, at Turf Moor. Burnley – Leicester Fosse 5-2 (2-0). Attendance: 6,000. Burnley (2-3-5): Jerry Dawson, Fred Barron, Tom Splitt, Jonathan Cretney, Alex Leake, Hugh Moffat, John Morley, Benny Green, Joe Chadbourne, Walter Abbott, Charlie Smethams. Leicester Fosse (2-3-5): […]
November 27, 1909 Match: Football League, Second Division, at Oakwell. Barnsley – Leicester Fosse 3-1 (3-1). Attendance: 6,000. Barnsley (2-3-5): Jack Cooper, Dickie Downs, Harry Ness, Bob Glendenning, Tommy Boyle, George Utley, Wilf Bartrop, Ernie Gadsby, George Lillycrop, Harry Tufnell, Tom Forman. Leicester Fosse (2-3-5): Horace Bailey, Billy […]
June 17, 1908 William Goldie, the brilliant left-half of the Fulham Football Club, and previously of Liverpool, who refused to resign for the former club owing to differences with the management respecting his benefit match, has definitely decided to retire from football, and will not sign for any […]
Saturday, March 28 – 1908 Match: FA Cup, Semi Final, at Anfield. Newcastle United – Fulham 6-0 (2-0). Attendance: 45,000; gate receipts: £1,700. Referee: Mr. J.T. Howcroft; linesmen: Messrs. Lieutenant Clover and J. Grant. Newcastle United (2-3-5): Jimmy Lawrence, Billy McCracken, Dick Pudan, Alec Gardner, Colin Veitch, David […]
Saturday, August 25 – 1906 Brentford. Goalkeeper. – Charlie Williams (Norwich City). Backs. – Jock Watson, John McConnell (Grimsby Town), Archie Taylor (Bristol Rovers), R. Abbott (Hanwell). Half-backs. – Jimmy Jay, George Parsonage, Jimmy Tomlinson, Bob Haworth (Fulham), J. Pritchard (Southern University). Forwards. – Tosher Underwood, Tommy Shanks, […]
August 25, 1906 The Liverpool Club have, like their neighbours from across the park, a reputation to maintain, inasmuch as they hold the distinction of being League champions. The honour is not new to them; but they, too, will have to play at the top of their form […]
September 23, 1905 The directors of the Liverpool club have at least disclosed their hand, and two new players have been signed on. They are both men of ability, and if the further additions eventuate Liverpool will have not only a first team equal to any, but capable […]
Saturday, September 17 – 1904 We make no apology for introducing our readers to the “doyen” of Liverpool players, – William Dunlop – one of the most loyal and determined full backs that any club ever possessed. In the days when Liverpool was just termed a team of […]
Wednesday, June 1 – 1904 Herbert Craik, ex-Forfar, Greenock Morton, and Liverpool half back, has been transferred to the Hearts. Craik was secured by Liverpool from Morton a year ago, at a cost of £275. It was intended to play him in the place vacated by Willie Goldie, […]
May 11, 1904 The announcement that Mr. Robert Blyth had resigned the managership of the Portsmouth Football Club was made yesterday, and created quite a sensation in local sporting circles. Blyth joined Portsmouth from Preston North End upon the formation of the Club, and his conscientious work soon […]
Saturday, January 2 – 1904 For a team that has time and again proved itself capable of achieving great things on the field of football, Liverpool has this year played the role of a club disappointing to its admirers, and has lost match after match which they hoped […]
Wednesday, December 23 – 1903 Our Glasgow correspondent telegraphs: – I have it on the best authority that Mr. Frank Heaven, the new manager of the Third Lanark, has all but fixed up with Goldie and Glover, the two Liverpool players who, along with Raybould, were suspended by […]
Saturday, October 3 – 1903 Following the meeting yesterday of the Consultative Committee of the English Football Association, the Commission appointed to consider the case of the suspended Liverpool professionals who had signed on for Portsmouth arrived at the following decision: – “Having regard to the special circumstances […]
August 24, 1903 The players who have been secured to fill the vacancies caused by the secession of such old familiar figures as William Goldie, Sam Raybould, and John Glover, and, in a less degree, George Livingstone, have been previously noted, but their names will bear repetition. There […]
August 22, 1903 Liverpool have lost at least four first-class men in William Goldie, John Glover, Sam Raybould, and George Livingstone, the first three of whom were suspended by the Association for refusing the maximum wage from their old club and signing for Portsmouth. The other man, Livingstone, […]
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; the new-comers are not of equal standing, and whether they will fill the shoes of their predecessors remains to be seen. None of […]
June 10, 1903 An important case affecting Association Football were set for adjudication at the Grand Hotel, Manchester, last evening. The case was regarding the conduct of three of the Liverpool club players, William Goldie, John Glover, and Sam Raybould, who were asked for an explanation as to […]
June 4, 1903 A commission of inquiry has been arranged concerning the “signing on” for a Southern League club (Portsmouth) of three of last season’s players of the Liverpool Football Club. The inquiry, which is anticipated with much interest by those connected with the Football League clubs and […]
May 14, 1903 William Goldie, the left half-back just secured by Portsmouth, was a slim, wispy lad of eighteen when he went to Liverpool. He is the only player they have had since becoming a power in the football who has never lost his place in the team […]
May 12, 1903 The Liverpool Club have reported the leaving of Sam Raybould, John Glover, and William Goldie, who have gone to Portsmouth, after being offered the maximum rate of wages. (Sunderland Echo: May 12, 1903)
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