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Liverpool
Football Club
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| Forget
all about Newcastle Football Club and their neighbours Sunderland,
Liverpool FC are the only team worth following! |
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The 2000/2001 squad
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Brief Club History |
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The story begins
in 1878 with the formation of St Domingo's Football Club, organised
around the sporting activities of a local chapel. Football was becoming
so popular at the time that St Domingo's decided to increase its catchment
area, and in 1879 adopted the more impressive name of Everton Football
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Five
years later, Everton began playing their home games at Anfield.
The owner of the ground was a wealthy businessman and future Mayor
of Liverpool, John Houlding, whose power and influence in the area
was reflected in his nickname "King John of Everton".
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name of Everton therefore crops up in the early history of Liverpool,
because it was not until 1892 that Liverpool Football Club was formed.
March 1892 was a crucial month. A financial dispute involving Houlding
and fellow members of Everton over the tenancy of the ground finally
reached a point of no return, resulting in a decision to move Everton
Football Club to new premises across Stanley Park. |
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Houlding
was thus left with a football ground, but no team to play on it.
W.E. Barclay, Houlding's friend and fellow football fanatic, suggested
that a new team be created. Houlding liked the idea so Liverpool
Association Football Club (as the club was originally known) was
born.
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Houlding applied
immediately for the membership of the Football League but when his
application was rejected Liverpool had to settle for a season in
the more local Lancashire League. It was virtually unheard of at
the time for a city to have more than one professional football
team, and people naturally wondered where on earth Liverpool's players
would come from.
John McKenna,
the club's first manager provided the answer; Scotland. All eleven
players of the Liverpool team that played it's first ever competitive
match, against Higher Walton on the 3rd September 1892, were Scottish.
In the 1893-94 season, L.F.C. was promoted to the Second Division
after only one season. Liverpool's first ever League game was away
to the now defunct Middlesbrough Ironopolis, with Malcom McVean
earning the historic accolade of scoring Liverpool's first ever
League goal, in a 2-0 victory. During the following season home
gates were approaching 20,000, after very humble beginnings. The
1898-99 season saw the arrival of the centre-half Alex Raisbeck,
Liverpool's first real world-class player to wear the famous red
strip (which replaced the original blue and white colours in 1896).
In the 1900-01 season, as Queen Victoria's lengthy reign drew to
a close, Liverpool won the League Championship for the first time.
This was to be the first championship victory of many. Currently
the 18 championship victories constitute a record for any English
Club.
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