Born: 5 April 1870

Born in: Maybole, South Ayrshire

Died: 28 July 1943

Other clubs: Maybole, Rangers (1888-90), Everton (1890-92), Bury (1893-97), Bristol City (1897-98)

Signed from: Everton

Joined Liverpool: May 1892

Debut: 03 Sep 1892

Final appearance: 15 Apr 1893

Debut goal: 01 Oct 1892

Last goal: 18 Mar 1893

Contract until: 1893

Honours: Lancashire league 1892/93

League: Apps / Goals: 0 / 0

All Competitions: Apps / Goals: 25 / 15

Player Profile

Wyllie scored almost in every other game in the Lancashire league and a total of five in three FA Cup games in the 1892/93 season. When the first derby between first division Everton and second division Liverpool took place on 22 April 1893 in the Liverpool Senior cup final, former Everton player, Wyllie, scored the game's only goal. The Merseyside teams were still at odds after John Houlding quit Everton and formed Liverpool a year earlier. Liverpool were elected to the Second Division after winning the Lancashire league, but Wyllie stayed in the local league with third-placed Bury while Liverpool took the second division title. Bury were runners-up a year later but were elected to the Second Division which the Greater Manchester club won at the first attempt. Fate would have it that Bury's opponents in the Test match in which the bottom club of the First Division played the second division champions would be between Bury and Wyllie's old club, Liverpool. Bury won 1-0 and Wyllie played two seasons in First Division before moving to Bristol City in the Southern league in the close season in 1897. When he retired from the game he became a newsagent in Bedminster.