Just been to Liverpool and visited a
number of great venues, including the Museum of Liverpool where there
is a substantial exhibit of sport in the city and especially,of
course, football. Visit the website to find out about the film show
that shares time slots with the Beatles, naturally.
The first derby was played on October
13th 1894, at Goodison, with Everton winning 3-0, before a crowd of
44,000. There have been 224 derbies of which Liverpool have won 88
and Everton 66. Neville Southall is the player with most derby
appearances (41) and Ian Rush top goalscorer with 25.
Everton played at Anfield, originally a
ground owned by club chairman John Houlding,who was a brewer and the
Orrell brothers. The Everton board were mainy Liberal voters and
members of the National Temperence Federation. Houlding was a
Conservative and an Orangeman, though religion is not the reason for
the differences between the Red and the Blues. There was even a
thought that having masses visiting matches there might be an
opportunity to influence voting in elections. Clearly brewing and
temperance did not go together.
In 1884 on September 27th,
the club played its first match against Earlstown, winning 5-0 and in
1888 they became founder members of the Football League.
In 1892, due to a disagreement over
rents (£250 pa-a lot in those days) and that Houlding held rites to
sell refreshments at the ground, Everton vacated Anfield and went to
their new ground at Goodison, across Stanley Park, whilst Houlding
founded a new club to play at Anfield, Liverpool FC.
There was no match scheduled at
Goodison on August 24th though some athletics, music and
fireworks took place. Lord Kinnaird and Frederick Wall represented
the FA at this grand occasion.
Liverpool FC did not play their first
league game until September 2nd 1893, away at Middlesbrough in
division 2!
On September 1st 1892
Everton played Bolton Wanderers in the first ever match at Goodison,
in front of 10,000 people, winning 4-2, whilst on the same day, only
a few spectators watched Liverpool's first match at Anfield against
Rotherham.
Later, on November 17th, the
clubs met again at Anfield in a 2-2 draw. Everton continued to
succeed in the division, but Liverpool struggled and were eventually
relegated for two years.
Between 1902-32 the clubs shared the
same match day programme.
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