Liverpool Football Club - A History

When the football league began in 1888, Anfield was one of the first grounds. However unlike today, it was Everton Football Club who were based there. When, in the early 1890s Everton had a dispute with the owner of Anfield, Tory MP John Holding, Everton were evicted and Holding and his friend William Barclay decided that the city had room for two football clubs and Liverpool Football Club was born. It was the honest and well respected Irishman John McKenna who carried out much of the early building work at the club and he is widely acknowledged with doing more than most men in the early days of the football league.  Liverpool Football Clubs first application to join the football league was rejected so they began playing as part of the Lancashire League as Liverpool Amateur Football Club in September 1892, the same day Everton Football Club played their first game at Goodison Park - their new ground.

Liverpool were a force to be reckoned with even at the start of their football life, regularly beating opposition with score lines like 8-0 during their first Lancashire League game. Once they were admitted into the Football League they produced scores of  5-0 against West Bromwich Albion and 3-0 against Blackburn Rovers. However a run of defeats meant that in 1954 Liverpool Football Club was relegated into the Second Division.

Then came Bill Shankly! Liverpool had approached Bill Shankly in 1951 to manage the club but wouldn't allow him to pick the team so he refused the job offer only to return as manager on 1st December 1959. Bill Shankly went on to become one of the most celebrated and respected football managers the league has ever seen. He built a failing Liverpool side into cup winners.

Since Bill Shankly, Liverpool has been lucky enough to have some of the greatest ever football managers including; Shankly’s successor Bob Paisley who, until very recently, had won more trophies than any other manager in English Football history.

 From the beginning of Liverpool Football Club, many trophies have been won, please see our Facts & Figures panel at the right of this page - today Liverpool Football Club one of the most successful clubs in the world.

'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.
I'm very disappointed with that attitude.
I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.'

Bill Shankley

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LIVERPOOL FC defeated FC Rabotnicki in the Europa League last night, and our photographer Colin Lane was there.

DAVID NGOG earned the praise of Roy Hodgson after ensuring a winning start to a new era at Anfield.

SO, what was all the fuss about again? He won’t want it to become a feature of his Anfield career, but Roy Hodgson will be delighted to have been proven so gloriously wrong last night.

DAVID NGOG struck twice as Roy Hodgson began his reign as Liverpool manager with a comfortable victory from a potentially tricky Europa League test tonight.

DAVID NGOG struck twice as Roy Hodgson began his reign as Liverpool manager with a comfortable victory from a potentially tricky Europa League test tonight.

ROY HODGSON admits his team are totally ill-prepared for his first game as Liverpool manager tonight and could not have envisaged a “more difficult situation” in which to begin his Anfield career.

THERE aren’t many players who turn Real Madrid away from their doorstep.

LIVERPOOL FC got ready for their Europa League match with FC Rabotnicki tonight with a training session in Skopje, Macedonia.

FERNANDO TORRES has told Liverpool he is looking forward to playing for the club in the new season – as new Anfield manager Roy Hodgson prepared to travel for his first competitive game without any of his England World Cup contingent.

REAL SOCIEDAD are ready to launch a bid to take Dani Pacheco back to Spain – as Emiliano Insua’s move to Fiorentina hit a major stumbling block.

HOLDING court deep within the bowels of Anfield, Joe Cole pauses for a moment to glance at the photographs adorning the walls of the players’ lounge.

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FERNANDO TORRES has no intention of quitting Liverpool FC, Roy Hodgson insisted today.

JAVIER MASCHERANO looks set to leave Anfield after he informed manager Roy Hodgson he wants to follow Rafael Benitez to Inter.

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LFC Blogs

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Respect For Roy
Well it?s been awhile but I make no apologies for that because I?ve just been having too good a time to allow the depressive goings on at Liverpool to spoil my mood. At the end of May last year I was made redundant but after a frustrating year of countless wild goose chases I?ve finally [...]
Thanks Rafa, YNWA
I was very sad to hear the news yesterday and I am gutted that Rafa Benitez is no longer our manager. Some people say football is like a religion and it?s easy to see why. Take Rafa for example, he arrived as a saviour, performed a few miracles, was betrayed from within and then was [...]
Little Red Shoots of Recovery
God, I?m fed up. It?s been barely more than a couple of weeks since the season finished but already I?m as bored as a midget in a theme park! Don?t get me wrong, I was happy to see the end of our miserable campaign but at the same time, even if the team is in [...]
Rafa Must Stay
Well we?ve finally got to the last weekend of this horrible season and I?m as happy as a priest at an altar boy convention that it?s almost all over! To be honest I think from several months back most of us knew deep down that this was most likely going to turn out to be [...]
All Or Nothing
One way or another we?ve got a big week ahead of us. It?s been a miserable, frustrating season and quite frankly I?ll be glad to see the back of it but if we are to stand any chance of salvaging anything from this God-awful campaign it’s all or nothing time and we need two wins [...]
New Chairman, Old Story
I?m walking around like a zombie at the moment because I?ve just spent a couple of weeks temporarily working on a night shift with my days consisting of work, sleep, a shower, a shit and a shave, and then back to work again. It?s a horrible existence but it helped pay the bills while it [...]
Benfica Or Bust!
Before focusing on our own problems I feel it is my duty as a fully paid up member of the sad, pathetic little man society to open up this blog by simply saying HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! 3-0 and they screwed it up, the mancs are dumped out of the CL and I?ve just had a great time [...]
The Late, Late Show
My blogging form seems to have become about as consistent as Steve Gerrard?s playing form, but I?ve had my reasons and for better or worse I?m back. Super, duper stuff by The Reds on Sunday and a great performance that delighted but also frustrated in almost equal measures. Torres was at his awesomely awesome best [...]
Play It Again, Rafa
Apologies for the gap between blogs, I decided it was time to change my ISP and to make a long story short I?ve just had a hell of a time trying to get back online again. Thankfully everything seems to be working properly again and to be honest in some ways I?m glad I couldn?t [...]
I Don?t Like Mondays
When it comes to football I agree with that old Boomtown Rats song, I don?t like Mondays. It?s bad enough playing our European game on Thursday, but playing our ?weekend? league game on Monday in the same week is about as un-natural to me as monogamy seems to be at Stamford Bridge! It took me [...]