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adi dassler
Player Valuation: £6m
adi dassler
Player Valuation: £6m
These 4 were meant to help us regain the championship. Sadly never worked out that way
trebilcock66
Player Valuation: £8m
They're all thinking: "Where the hell is the Championship Trophy that I thought we'd won?"
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Not overflowing with pictures but interesting article about the origins of football in Liverpool :
Was this the Birthplace of Football in Liverpool?
By TONY ONSLOW
The Midland Railway, Goods Depot, Liverpool.
The year was 1874 and the Midland Railway Company had, eventually, managed to lay their track in to the town centre of Liverpool where they opened a terminal station. The location, which they named Liverpool Central, was designed to handle both passenger and goods traffic. The Midland Railway next constructed a large warehouse, designed to hold goods in transit, on Victoria Street and it was to here, during the summer of 1875, that a company employee was transferred from his native county of Derbyshire. His name was Thomas Evans. He was an experienced cricket and football player who was destined to play the lead role in the formation of Everton Football Club.
Tom Evans first appears on the Gores Index of Liverpool working as Book Keeper and living at 104 Westbourne Street in Everton. It was pleasant row of quality terraced housing, which overlooked a small area of parkland. He seems to have quickly adjusted to life in his new home because, in August 1875, Tom Evans appears in the local newspaper playing cricket for both his employers and the Everton club. It could be here that he first came in to contact with a family who would later play football along side him for Everton. Their name is Marriott. The 1881 census reveals that there are five Marriott brothers and all of them are employed in a clerical capacity. They live, along with their parents, at Grey Rock Street so they could have worshipped at St Saviours church.
The Everton Cricket Club had their headquarters on a patch of land that would later become the home ground of Everton Football Club while the Midland Railwaymen played their home matches on Stanley Park. There are, during the winter of 1875, no newspaper reports to be found of association football games being played in the Liverpool area only those played under the rules of Rugby School. It does however; seem quite possible that Tom Evans now introduced his fellow cricketers, and other people who were interested, to the game he had played back in his native Derbyshire by organising a series of impromptu association football matches on Stanley Park.
The newspapers of both Derbyshire, and south Yorkshire, from 1873, reveal a Tom Evans playing the association game, under the rules of the Sheffield FA, for Chesterfield. This game, here illustrated, was played 7-11-1874. There are also two brothers, John Henry and William Unwin, playing football in the area at the time and, on the 1st of May, 1877, Tom Evans was wed to their elder sister. The marriage certificate reveals that Sarah is the daughter of a Grocer and lives, along with her brothers, on the High Street at Clay Cross in Derbyshire. Tom, one year older than Sarah, is twenty four and he gives his residence simply as “Liverpool” while he lists his occupation as that of a Clerk. His younger brother Henry, who was also an accomplished football player, is a witness to the event and adds his name to the certificate. The couple, when the ceremonies were over, settled in Liverpool.
They took up residence at 28 Faraday Street and, as records reveal, became members of the congregation at St Saviour’s church on Breckfield Road, North. It was here that they came in to contact with a successfully local businessman named John Houlding. We know he worshipped at St Saviours because and his name can be seen, in the parish records, as being in regular attendance at the meeting, of the church committee, that were held in the vestry. There is however, no mention of the church having a football team.
Nevertheless, the minister at nearby St Georges (August 1879) called for all the Anglican Churches of north Liverpool to join to-gather and form a football team that would be modelled on the lines of the one, already in existence, at St Saviours. Tom Evans, along with team mates, now appears to be playing for the United Churches of Everton. It is, as yet, still unknown what year the team was formed at St Saviours but we might find a clue in an interview that was given by Alex Nesbit, the then secretary of Everton FC, in the December of 1887.
When asked, by a visiting journalist for the origins of his club, Mr Nesbitt states that… It was in the year the1878. Mr Watson was then secretary and, through his advice and influence that the old church (St Saviours?) and the St Domingo club amalgamated under the title of Everton.
Frank Brettell, on becoming the manager of Bolton Wanderers was also interviewed and stated that…My first connection with association football came in 1878 when the game was played, by the old Everton club (football or cricket?) on Stanley Park. I was of course quite a youth at the time, club being run by a lot of young fellows for their own amusement. It was never recorded just who these “young fellows” were but some evidence, concerning their identity, may be found in pages of the Everton history book that was written by Thomas Keats.
He describes Tom Evans as … a six foot tall Derbyshire athlete who was never happier then when he was bowling batting or playing football. He excelled in them all. He also tells us that Tom played at full back where he was first partnered by his colleague from work, John Douglas. He was employed as a “Railway Goods Clerk” and, prior to the introduction of Jack McGill, captained the Everton team. John Douglas also lived, along with Marriott Brothers, in Grey Rock Street. He later married and, in 1901, he had settled at Hyde Road in Waterloo.
Tom Evans now settled in to an Everton side that soon developed a healthy rivalry with their neighbours Bootle. They were captained by Scotsman, Robert M Sloane. He was great organiser who, along with Tom Evans, did a lot to move the Association Rules game forward on Merseyside. In January 1882, Sloane, along with other Bootle players, had supervised the erection of a simple enclosure, canvas bound to wooden poles, on Marsh Lane in the hope of “obtaining a gate” for the visit of Everton. George Badgery, a member of the congregation at St Saviours, took up position in goal while Tom Evans was partnered, at full back, by Tom Marriott. Around 500 people paid for admission and “looked on” as Everton won by 4 goals to 1. Next Saturday, Tom Evans was back at Marsh Lane in the colours of Bootle.
Robert Sloane, in an attempt to popularise the game on Merseyside, had managed to secure a fixture with the second string of players from the famous Queens Park club of Glasgow. He invited Tom Evans to partner him at full back. Sloane had also “brought in” John L Henstock, a local “Oxford Blue” to captain the Bootle side while the Queens Park line up was strengthened by a couple of Scotsmen who were now playing their football in east Lancashire.
The occasion attracted a crowd, estimated at 2,000, in to enclosure where they watched the first team of football players, from Scotland, to visit Merseyside. They did no doubt, expected the visitors to achieve an easy victory but, thanks to some resolute defending by Evans and Sloane, they had to be content with 2-0 victory. Tom Evans made one more guest appearance with Bootle, against the Welsh FA Cup holders Druids, before returning to duty with Everton.
He did however, keep in close contact with the Bootle skipper and later put to-gather a team of players that were opposed by a side, on Stanley Park, that had been selected by Tom Sloane. Both men, in November 1882, were then instrumental in the forming of the Liverpool FA and were also on the committee of their respected football clubs.
That summer, the Evans family left the Anfield area for a new home, within a stones throw of the Midland Railway Station, in Garston. Tom played his last game for Everton in December 1882 and then retired from football.
Tom Evans next became an official with the FA and took charge of many important games in the North West of England before the Midland Railway transferred him to Stockport where, eventually, he ended his days. The goods depot, where he had first become acquainted with some of the early football players of Liverpool, is now closed but, in March 1975, it was designated as a grade two listed building. To-day it operates as a conservation centre.
Was this the Birthplace of Football in Liverpool?
By TONY ONSLOW
The Midland Railway, Goods Depot, Liverpool.
The year was 1874 and the Midland Railway Company had, eventually, managed to lay their track in to the town centre of Liverpool where they opened a terminal station. The location, which they named Liverpool Central, was designed to handle both passenger and goods traffic. The Midland Railway next constructed a large warehouse, designed to hold goods in transit, on Victoria Street and it was to here, during the summer of 1875, that a company employee was transferred from his native county of Derbyshire. His name was Thomas Evans. He was an experienced cricket and football player who was destined to play the lead role in the formation of Everton Football Club.
Tom Evans first appears on the Gores Index of Liverpool working as Book Keeper and living at 104 Westbourne Street in Everton. It was pleasant row of quality terraced housing, which overlooked a small area of parkland. He seems to have quickly adjusted to life in his new home because, in August 1875, Tom Evans appears in the local newspaper playing cricket for both his employers and the Everton club. It could be here that he first came in to contact with a family who would later play football along side him for Everton. Their name is Marriott. The 1881 census reveals that there are five Marriott brothers and all of them are employed in a clerical capacity. They live, along with their parents, at Grey Rock Street so they could have worshipped at St Saviours church.
The Everton Cricket Club had their headquarters on a patch of land that would later become the home ground of Everton Football Club while the Midland Railwaymen played their home matches on Stanley Park. There are, during the winter of 1875, no newspaper reports to be found of association football games being played in the Liverpool area only those played under the rules of Rugby School. It does however; seem quite possible that Tom Evans now introduced his fellow cricketers, and other people who were interested, to the game he had played back in his native Derbyshire by organising a series of impromptu association football matches on Stanley Park.
The newspapers of both Derbyshire, and south Yorkshire, from 1873, reveal a Tom Evans playing the association game, under the rules of the Sheffield FA, for Chesterfield. This game, here illustrated, was played 7-11-1874. There are also two brothers, John Henry and William Unwin, playing football in the area at the time and, on the 1st of May, 1877, Tom Evans was wed to their elder sister. The marriage certificate reveals that Sarah is the daughter of a Grocer and lives, along with her brothers, on the High Street at Clay Cross in Derbyshire. Tom, one year older than Sarah, is twenty four and he gives his residence simply as “Liverpool” while he lists his occupation as that of a Clerk. His younger brother Henry, who was also an accomplished football player, is a witness to the event and adds his name to the certificate. The couple, when the ceremonies were over, settled in Liverpool.
They took up residence at 28 Faraday Street and, as records reveal, became members of the congregation at St Saviour’s church on Breckfield Road, North. It was here that they came in to contact with a successfully local businessman named John Houlding. We know he worshipped at St Saviours because and his name can be seen, in the parish records, as being in regular attendance at the meeting, of the church committee, that were held in the vestry. There is however, no mention of the church having a football team.
Nevertheless, the minister at nearby St Georges (August 1879) called for all the Anglican Churches of north Liverpool to join to-gather and form a football team that would be modelled on the lines of the one, already in existence, at St Saviours. Tom Evans, along with team mates, now appears to be playing for the United Churches of Everton. It is, as yet, still unknown what year the team was formed at St Saviours but we might find a clue in an interview that was given by Alex Nesbit, the then secretary of Everton FC, in the December of 1887.
When asked, by a visiting journalist for the origins of his club, Mr Nesbitt states that… It was in the year the1878. Mr Watson was then secretary and, through his advice and influence that the old church (St Saviours?) and the St Domingo club amalgamated under the title of Everton.
Frank Brettell, on becoming the manager of Bolton Wanderers was also interviewed and stated that…My first connection with association football came in 1878 when the game was played, by the old Everton club (football or cricket?) on Stanley Park. I was of course quite a youth at the time, club being run by a lot of young fellows for their own amusement. It was never recorded just who these “young fellows” were but some evidence, concerning their identity, may be found in pages of the Everton history book that was written by Thomas Keats.
He describes Tom Evans as … a six foot tall Derbyshire athlete who was never happier then when he was bowling batting or playing football. He excelled in them all. He also tells us that Tom played at full back where he was first partnered by his colleague from work, John Douglas. He was employed as a “Railway Goods Clerk” and, prior to the introduction of Jack McGill, captained the Everton team. John Douglas also lived, along with Marriott Brothers, in Grey Rock Street. He later married and, in 1901, he had settled at Hyde Road in Waterloo.
Tom Evans now settled in to an Everton side that soon developed a healthy rivalry with their neighbours Bootle. They were captained by Scotsman, Robert M Sloane. He was great organiser who, along with Tom Evans, did a lot to move the Association Rules game forward on Merseyside. In January 1882, Sloane, along with other Bootle players, had supervised the erection of a simple enclosure, canvas bound to wooden poles, on Marsh Lane in the hope of “obtaining a gate” for the visit of Everton. George Badgery, a member of the congregation at St Saviours, took up position in goal while Tom Evans was partnered, at full back, by Tom Marriott. Around 500 people paid for admission and “looked on” as Everton won by 4 goals to 1. Next Saturday, Tom Evans was back at Marsh Lane in the colours of Bootle.
Robert Sloane, in an attempt to popularise the game on Merseyside, had managed to secure a fixture with the second string of players from the famous Queens Park club of Glasgow. He invited Tom Evans to partner him at full back. Sloane had also “brought in” John L Henstock, a local “Oxford Blue” to captain the Bootle side while the Queens Park line up was strengthened by a couple of Scotsmen who were now playing their football in east Lancashire.
The occasion attracted a crowd, estimated at 2,000, in to enclosure where they watched the first team of football players, from Scotland, to visit Merseyside. They did no doubt, expected the visitors to achieve an easy victory but, thanks to some resolute defending by Evans and Sloane, they had to be content with 2-0 victory. Tom Evans made one more guest appearance with Bootle, against the Welsh FA Cup holders Druids, before returning to duty with Everton.
He did however, keep in close contact with the Bootle skipper and later put to-gather a team of players that were opposed by a side, on Stanley Park, that had been selected by Tom Sloane. Both men, in November 1882, were then instrumental in the forming of the Liverpool FA and were also on the committee of their respected football clubs.
That summer, the Evans family left the Anfield area for a new home, within a stones throw of the Midland Railway Station, in Garston. Tom played his last game for Everton in December 1882 and then retired from football.
Tom Evans next became an official with the FA and took charge of many important games in the North West of England before the Midland Railway transferred him to Stockport where, eventually, he ended his days. The goods depot, where he had first become acquainted with some of the early football players of Liverpool, is now closed but, in March 1975, it was designated as a grade two listed building. To-day it operates as a conservation centre.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Succinct
bluelord49
Player Valuation: £8m
I,m not succinct or extinct.......bit dated now like... 1966 Wembley....Everton The Gear
rochdaleblue
Player Valuation: £50m
Around this era the RS bought Beardsley see cottee Barnes see nevin and houghton see McCall for similar money. And we wonder why we didn't kick on????
Always thought Nevin and Cottee were decent.