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If it wasn't for one man, Liverpool Football Club would never have been born.
When Everton left Anfield in a dispute over rent in 1892, club chairman John Houlding stayed behind along with a handful
of supporters and just three first-team players. But he was determined to see football continue at the ground. He formed a
new club from scratch, chose the name Liverpool and created a legend.
The history of Liverpool Football Club begins with our greatest rivals and neighbours, Everton, for it was from a dispute
with Everton that Liverpool Football Club was born.
In mid-February of the 1900-01 season, Liverpool had lost eight games and conceded 31 goals and the championship looked
a pipe-dream. Twelve games later and after nine wins and three draws, the title was ours.
Arsenal provided the opposition when Liverpool made their first appearance at Wembley. It should have been a momentous
occasion in the club's history but a 2-0 defeat prolonged the Reds.
December 1st 1959 is a date that will forever be etched in the annals of Anfield history. For it was on this day that
Liverpool Football Club announced Huddersfield Town boss Bill Shankly would be their new manager in succession to Phil Taylor.
There was a feeling of quiet optimism around Anfield that this could, at last, be Liverpool's year in the competition
we so desperately craved success in. After all, we were the reigning league champions and, under Bill Shankly, anything seemed
possible.
If winning the FA Cup for the first time in 1965 is regarded as the greatest day in the history of Liverpool Football
Club, then there is no doubt that winning the European Cup for the first time in 1977 was the greatest night.
No one will ever forget the tragic events at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels on May 29 1985. Liverpool were playing Juventus
in the European Cup Final and what should have been one of the greatest nights in the club's history turned into the lowest.
Liverpool Football Club kicked off the 1985/86 under a giant cloud. The events of Heysel just four months previous had
heaped shame on Anfield but that grey cloud was to have a glorious silver lining.
On April 15th 1989, over 25,000 Liverpool supporters travelled down to Hillsborough to watch the FA Cup semi-final match
with Nottingham Forest. 96 of them never returned.
Just four days after dramatically snatching the FA Cup from Arsenal's grasp in Cardiff, and with the Worthington Cup already
safely tucked away in the Anfield trophy cabinet, Liverpool's class of 2001 completed an unprecedented cup treble.
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If it wasn't for one man, Liverpool Football Club would never have been born.
AND THAT MAN WAS JOHN HOULDING.
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