A street in Cheltenham where parents have been told to stop their children playing football in the street as it is a breach of their tenancy agreement has made the news in the last week. Such complaints about street football are not a new phenomenon though, as the matter saw people put before the courts […]
THE FOOTBALL INTERNATIONAL AT A CRICKET GROUND
Liverpool Cricket Club in Aigburth hosts occasional County Championship matches for Lancashire and has the oldest pavilion at a first class cricket ground. It also hosted the first international football match in Liverpool in 1883, giving the city a unique place in terms of the English national team. Founded in 1807, Liverpool Cricket Club is […]
LIVERPOOL’S FIRST FLOODLIT FOOTBALL MATCH
Nowadays it is Liverpool South Parkway station, a major bus and rail interchange for the south of the city and connection to the airport but up until 1990 the site was Holly Park, home of South Liverpool FC and venue for the first match to be played under floodlights in Liverpool, back in 1949. The […]
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