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Dennis Stevens
1 Posted 04/01/2016 at 22:47:53

Marvellous stuff, Tony! I do enjoy these trips back to the Everton of yesteryear – the players had real lives that are much more interesting than today's overpaid stars.

Brian Garside
2 Posted 05/01/2016 at 09:50:54

Thanks Tony. Exellent stuff. Really enjoyed it.

Bob McEvoy
3 Posted 05/01/2016 at 16:09:25

Well done, Tony. Another excellent read

Mike Berry
4 Posted 12/01/2016 at 21:06:07

Do we know where he is buried in Anfield cemy, Tony?

David Ellis
5 Posted 13/01/2016 at 13:04:36

Tony a great read. I just wonder about the history of the Liverpool and District Cup. After the formation of the Football League, what happened to it... I still see references to the Liverpool Senior Cup and Everton certainly used to play in it in the 1970s... but even then I wondered what it was for and wouldn't Everton and Liverpool win it every year (we didn't).

Bootle gets a lot of mentions in your early historical reports so I guess they were a major force at the time but never made it into the League... Are they still in existence? It shows how important some of these turning points can be... we got into the league and they didn't... Mind you, it didn't help Accrington Stanley!! Or ultimately hold back Newton Heath.

Tony Onslow
6 Posted 14/01/2016 at 13:26:06

Mike, Don't know where George is buried but will find out shortly and let you know, Going up to Arbroath in April to watch the Derby game with Montrose. There is, opposite their ground, a pub called The Tutties Neuk, where, I believe, the fitba crac is 90.

Tony Onslow
7 Posted 16/01/2016 at 17:51:32

David the Liverpool Cup graduated into the Liverpool Senior Cup, Everton still compete in the tournament but contest it with the Academy side.

The trophy is not the original one because that was stolen, from a shop window, sometime around the beginning of the last century.

Tony Onslow
8 Posted 09/10/2016 at 13:22:38

George Fleming is buried in the Church of England section, grave number 7/767.

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