A DAY OUT

Apologies for including these September 1st events here on September 2nd. I was distracted by the Rennes venture yesterday and lost count. These "anniversary events" that I missed yesterday are too good to ignore, so here they are.

Everton FC played their first games at Stanley Park from 1878. then rented a field off Priory Road owned by a Mr Cruitt, before going to Anfield between 1884-92. Their major success at this time was in the Liverpool Cup Final against Earlestown. The landlord objected to the increasing use of the field and the noise, he got grumpy so the club had to move. The move proved successful.
They became professional in 1885 and were founder members of the Football League in 1888.

On the first day of September 1892, Everton FC had moved from Aintree to a new venue due to a rent increase enforced on them. With Everton on the move, a new club had to be found to make use of the Anfield pitch, so a club called Liverpool FC was formed and they played their first friendly against Midlands League Champions, Rotherham Town, a game watched by a crowd of a 100 or so.
Two days later the Liverpool club took on Higher Walton from the Lancashire League and 200 saw the Reds score 8 and concede 0. A good start. The rest is history.

Spurs also had a good start  on the 1st of the 9th, 1908, when they first ventured into the Football League and beat FA Cup holders Wolves. 20,000 turned up at White Hart Lane to witness a 3-0 victory for the home team. Vivian Woodward scored the club's first Football League goal and another in a double.
https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/vivian-woodward/ They don't make them like they used to.

The next day (2nd September) 1892, Everton played their first game at Goodison Park against Bolton Wanderers, winning 4-2 in a friendly. The next day, their first Goodison League match was against Nottingham Forest which ended in a 2-2 draw.

On September 2nd 1939 Bournemouth beat Northampton Town 10-0 in a Football League Division 3 South match which looked like it was going to be history however the next day War was declared and the records for that season expunged. The sixth goal had gone through the net and injured a spectator.