“And If You Know Your History.”

[RomanReigns]

Good recruitment and scouting in Scotland! (The rich Mill owners must have had good contacts in Scottish Mill towns)
8-9 of PNE starting 11 each game was Scottish that season. Compared to just the 2 for us.

We learned though, and doubled to 4 Scots the next season as Runners Up then upped it to 7 the next season to become Champions.

They (PNE) could only draw with Third Lanark (Scottish Cup winners) in the World Championship game though. so not that invincible !

im going a little bit off topic here but obviously accrington were one of the 12 founder members of the football league and they folded in 1893

accrington stanley was then formed in 1891 and played in the football league between 1921 and 1962.

Walter Galbraith was the player manager of accrington stanley in 1953 and on 29th August 1955 and he once selected a team of eleven Scots for Accrington in a Football League match against Rochdale

galbraith subsequently went on to manage New Brighton and Tranmere Rovers

 

[Jeff Jones]

Yeah, I think perhaps it's just the year that you got mixed up. It was a year earlier 1957 (TBF you did say 'about' 1958)
I found this from the Echo -

Everton and the experiment that changed Goodison forever

It has been 60 years today since floodlit football made the blue half of Merseyside that much brighter

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

"On the night Everton were ALL LIT UP BY THOMAS GOALS - and Eddie Thomas brace giving Everton a two-goal lead to take to Anfield for the second leg three weeks later."

Thanks Kevin. I'm glad you've cleared that up. I woke up during the night thinking I must be going mad,

 

[Bluerover]

The rs team in their first match a friendly v Rotherham 1 Sept 1892 was entirely Scots. Manager John McKenna was an Orange Man like his Chair Houlding.

Everton 's regular first team was 6 English and 5 Scottish.

We signed our first Irish player in 1898, John (Jack Kirwan), a former GAA player - like Séamus and Jake !!

The rs signed Elisha Scott who was from Belfast in 1912 until WWI and again 1919-1934.

Very scant record of any more signings from them from Ireland - Steve Heighway (England -born) then I think Whelan was first one born in the South.

Everton by contrast had lots from north and south - Donovan, Corr, Farrell, Eglinton, Meagan, Carey the best known from 40s to early 60s. No wonder the immigrants from Ireland in the 50s adopted the royal blue, a club where they could feel at home.

Full list:

Billy Bingham
Daniel Cameron
Johnny Carey
Lee Carsley
Tommy Casey
Dave Clements
Thomas Clinton
Seamus Coleman
Billy Cook
Peter Corr
Jackie Coulter
George Cummins
Don Donovan
Shane Duffy
Richard Dunne
Tommy Eglington
Jack Elliott
Peter Farrell
Gareth Farrelly
Darron Gibson
Bryan Hamilton
Alfred Harland
Val Harris
Jimmy Hill
John Houston
Bobby Irvine
Tommy Jackson
Joe Kendrick
Andrew Kennedy
Kevin Kilbane
John Kirwan
Billy Lacey
A Macartney
James McCambridge
James McCarthy
Seamus McDonagh
Aiden McGeady
Mick Meagan
Mike Milligan
Eamon O'Keefe
Jimmy O'Neill
Gerry Peyton
Terry Phelan
David Reid
Billy Scott
Peter Scott
Kevin Sheedy
James Sheridan
Donald Sloan
Alex Stevenson
John Sunderland
Michael A. Walsh
Michael T. Walsh
Norman Whiteside