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GraemeS1980
Player Valuation: £20m
Goodison 1938
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
1892 Goodison Park opens -
Mate, my Great Grandad played in our first competitive game at Goodison, thanks for posting
A bit more information for you -Mate, my Great Grandad played in our first competitive game at Goodison, thanks for posting
In My match Bible the Bolton Game listed below no official league game of the 4-2 victory on September the 2nd is not team listed maybe a friendly game - as the official League game that season started on September the 3rd- I have the squad for that season if your Great Grandad was in it? or maybe he was a reserve? I can PM it you if you want me to?
the first home game in that season v Notts Forest was a 2-2 draw ATT - 14,0000
The Blues finished 3rd in a division of 16 teams - more info below on the new ground after being turfed out of Anfield!
Goodison Park was the first major football stadium built in England.
Only Scotland had more advanced grounds; Rangers opened Ibrox in 1887, while Celtic Park was officially inaugurated at the same time as Goodison Park.
Everton's ground-breaking development at Mere Green was to set the trend for football stadia throughout the country. The Blues initially spent up to £3,000 on laying out the ground and building stands on three sides. Kelly Brothers of Walton built two uncovered stands each for 4000 people, and a covered stand seating 3000, at a total cost of £1,460.
Outside, hoardings cost a further £150, gates and sheds cost £132 and 10 shillings whilst 12 turnstiles added another £7 and 15 shillings to the bill.
The ground was dubbed Goodison Park and was opened on 24 August 1892, by Lord Kinnaird and Frederick Wall of the Football Association. Somewhat confusingly, the 12,000-strong crowd saw a short athletics meeting followed by a selection of music and a fireworks display.
Everton's first game there was on 2 September 1892 when they beat Bolton 4-2.
The publication 'Out Of Doors', reported in October 1892: "Behold Goodison Park! No single picture could take in the entire scene the ground presents, it is so magnificently large, for it rivals the greater American baseball pitches. On three sides of the field of play there are tall covered stands, and on the fourth side the ground has been so well banked up with thousands of loads of cinders that a complete view of the game can be had from any portion.
"It appears to be one of the finest and most complete grounds in the kingdom, and it is hoped that the public will liberally support the promoters."
bcblue1878
Player Valuation: £50m
Great pic Joey, but I think that may be Tommy Wright?Toshack out jumps Harvey as Hursty looks on -
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
I remember that goal now I've seen it, even better than the Anfield one I reckon.
Yes it was an unknown young Sharp who Gordon Lee fetched to the club, again overlooked by blues because what a centre forward he turned oput to be!
Tommy Lawton leads the team out 1946 -
Maybe but it stated Harvey looking at it it looks like Wrighty!
A bit more information for you -
In My match Bible the Bolton Game listed below no official league game of the 4-2 victory on September the 2nd is not team listed maybe a friendly game - as the official League game that season started on September the 3rd- I have the squad for that season if your Great Grandad was in it? or maybe he was a reserve? I can PM it you if you want me to?
the first home game in that season v Notts Forest was a 2-2 draw ATT - 14,0000
The Blues finished 3rd in a division of 16 teams - more info below on the new ground after being turfed out of Anfield!
Goodison Park was the first major football stadium built in England.
Only Scotland had more advanced grounds; Rangers opened Ibrox in 1887, while Celtic Park was officially inaugurated at the same time as Goodison Park.
Everton's ground-breaking development at Mere Green was to set the trend for football stadia throughout the country. The Blues initially spent up to £3,000 on laying out the ground and building stands on three sides. Kelly Brothers of Walton built two uncovered stands each for 4000 people, and a covered stand seating 3000, at a total cost of £1,460.
Outside, hoardings cost a further £150, gates and sheds cost £132 and 10 shillings whilst 12 turnstiles added another £7 and 15 shillings to the bill.
The ground was dubbed Goodison Park and was opened on 24 August 1892, by Lord Kinnaird and Frederick Wall of the Football Association. Somewhat confusingly, the 12,000-strong crowd saw a short athletics meeting followed by a selection of music and a fireworks display.
Everton's first game there was on 2 September 1892 when they beat Bolton 4-2.
The publication 'Out Of Doors', reported in October 1892: "Behold Goodison Park! No single picture could take in the entire scene the ground presents, it is so magnificently large, for it rivals the greater American baseball pitches. On three sides of the field of play there are tall covered stands, and on the fourth side the ground has been so well banked up with thousands of loads of cinders that a complete view of the game can be had from any portion.
"It appears to be one of the finest and most complete grounds in the kingdom, and it is hoped that the public will liberally support the promoters."
.....there's a stand out sentence there;
'Everton's ground breaking development at Mere Green was to set the trend for football stadia throughout the country'.
It would be great if those involved in securing a new ground remember the club's standing and heed those words.
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
Thanks mate, my Great Grandad played in both games, scoring the 4th in the 4-2 win over Bolton, then playing the following day against Nottingham Forest.
team v Forest -Thanks mate, my Great Grandad played in both games, scoring the 4th in the 4-2 win over Bolton, then playing the following day against Nottingham Forest.
Jardine -
Howarth - Dewar-
Boyle -Holt- Robertson
Latta - Maxwell - Geary - Chadwick - Milward
Scorers - F Milward - F Geary
The Esk
Player Valuation: £70m
team v Forest -
Jardine -
Howarth - Dewar-
Boyle -Holt- Robertson
Latta - Maxwell - Geary - Chadwick - Milward
Scorers - F Milward - F Geary
He became Everton's fifth club Captain