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Liverpool celebrate 130 years anniversary
2A5BGGB 19th October 2019, Goodison Park, Liverpool, England; Premier League, Everton v West Ham United : Everton badge and flags flying outside Goodison
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130 years ago, Liverpool football club was born.
It most definitely is a day that if all its rivals could turn back the hands of time, they would have made things work out differently to prevent its birth.
It was pretty simple; prevent the Everton board from having a disagreement with Liverpool’s future founder, John Houlding, and Liverpool would have ended up as nothing but a dream.
A dream which to rival clubs and fans, ended up becoming a realistic nightmare.
Throw back into history class: Liverpool was founded on this day June 3rd 1892.
2A5BGGB 19th October 2019, Goodison Park, Liverpool, England; Premier League, Everton v West Ham United : Everton badge and flags flying outside Goodison
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But before then, there was only one big club in Liverpool, and it was Everton. Everton were the first residents of Liverpool’s famous stadium, Anfield, and Liverpool’s eventual founder was even part of Everton board.
Liverpool as a club was birthed because of a disagreement between the board of Everton and one of its members, John Houlding.
What was the fight about?
The very thing people still fought over on today; Land.
The thing is, Houlding was part of the board solely because of one thing: he owned the land in which Everton played on. He owned Anfield.
And when the time came for Houlding to collect rent over the property, the Everton board felt they were being over taxed.
The fall out from that argument, led Everton to quit playing at Anfield. Its board felt it better to get their own land and leave Houlding with his property.
But Houlding wasn’t ready to go use the land for farming or anything; especially not with the experience he had working with Everton. He decided to form his own football team.
And the rest they say was history.
History that has brought the club a lot of rivalries in England and across Europe.
History that has given them glory, and brought them passionate supporters in and across Europe and the world.
19 times English League winners; one behind Manchester United, 6 times Champions League winners; the most for an English club, and a lot of glories that have earned the club respect and hate across Europe and the world.
But glory alone aren’t what the club boasts off, as it has its fair share of dark history; the Hillsborough and Heysel disasters that saw a number of fans dying during football games as a result of overcrowding and stampede.
FILE- In this file photo dated April 15, 1989, police, stewards and supporters care for supporters on the field after many fans were crushed onto the barriers at Hillsborough Football Stadium, in Sheffield, England, on April 15, 1989, when fans surged forward during the Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium killing 96 people. After years of campaigning to expose alleged wrongdoing by the authorities, new inquests into Britains worst sports disaster are beginning Monday March 31, 2014, with the families of the 96 Liverpool fans crushed to death at Hillsborough seeking verdicts of unlawful killing. (AP Photo, FILE)
The Heysel disaster was one that had it’s effect on English football in general, as after the incident, English Clubs were wwere banned from participating in European tournaments for a number of years.
If rival fans in England don’t hate Liverpool for its Glory, then it stands they will have to hate them for that one incident that affected the whole of England.
Aside the heartbreak that was the end of the season, Liverpool fans will have a lot to celebrate and sadly thank Everton for.
