In 1892 on the 1st day of the month, Everton FC left Anfield, , due to high rent, to take hold of Goodison Park! They played a friendly against the Midland League Champions, Rotherham Town, Liverpool winning 7-1. Two days later the club beat Higher Walton in the Lancashire League winning again 8-0, watched by 200.
Prior to this Everton played at Stanley Park and in 1882 J. Cruitt donated land to play on at Priory Road and in 1884 the Toffees became tenants at Anfield, land owned by John Orrell and a friend of Everton FC.
Tottenham Hotspur played their first Football League match against Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-0 in front of 20,000 at White Hart Lane. Vivian Woodward scored the club's first historic goal in front of 20,000.
Woodward was an architect who played as an amateur for England until the First World War when he served in the Footballers' Battalion and was wounded. His list of clubs started with Clacton FC (1895), Harwich and Parkeston (1899), Chelmsford (1900) before joining Tottenham in 1901, where he played 131 times. He then joined Chelsea and returned to Clacton briefly. He also played for the Football League XI and the Southern League XI in which Spurs played in their early years.
And of course on this day England beat West Germany 5-1 in Munich, Michael Owen notching a hat trick, in 2001.
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