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Gerry Morrison
1 Posted 22/11/2016 at 17:35:15
No cheese and bacon to neat. Love it. Thanks for a great read Tony.
Dennis Stevens
2 Posted 23/11/2016 at 02:12:33
Just as well Everton didn't win!
Bob McEvoy
3 Posted 23/11/2016 at 09:18:50
Tony, excellent stuff. The Great Lever supporters are described as fans at one point. I've always thought the word 'fans', presumably short for 'fanatics', was a 1960s construct .

Certainly when I started following football in the late 50s, anyone taking an interest was described as a 'supporter'. Any comment?
Tony Onslow
4 Posted 23/11/2016 at 18:32:46
Okay, Bob will call them supporters in future instead of fans.
Bob McEvoy
5 Posted 23/11/2016 at 19:14:07
Tony, it was your quote from the Liverpool Courier in 1880 that referred to Great Lever fans. So perhaps it was common parlance then. That's what I'm querying...
Tony Onslow
6 Posted 26/11/2016 at 10:53:55
Sorry for misleading you all. I went down the Liverpool Record Office yesterday and rechecked the article and the expression used was Great Lever folk and not fans. My wits and eyesight, it would appear, and not what they used to be.

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