In a 2023 internet article, Peter (‘redhel’) attempted to list all Football League games which had been abandoned. 

All historians should be nicknamed ’Hindsight’.

When Liverpool FC was created in 1892, major changes were happening to the way first class football was organised in England.

No headstone marks plot A0294 at Carleton cemetery in Blackpool; yet in this grave lie the remains of the mastermind behind some ten per cent of Liverpool’s top division league titles.

Identifying and recording those who help to create scoring opportunities for others allows their contribution to be recognised, and working relationships on the field to be analysed. Article by Dr Colin D. Rogers for LFChistory.net

The hills are alive with the round of rumours. With wrongs they have wrung for a thousand years.

The end of our 2023/24 season has been overshadowed, yet exhilarated, by having to say ‘farewell’ to our manager.

Liverpool FC carries the shame of two disasters which, even in hindsight, have been largely attributed to the misbehavior of some of their own fans.

Part 1 gave no pleasure to research, write, or (for LFC fans no doubt) to read, concerning LFC going behind in under ten minutes of a match.

‘There’s been an early goal at Anfield,’ says an excited anchor in the studio, a phrase still dreaded by not-yet-completely converted believers.

The frustration for a debutant-in-waiting at Anfield.

In 1955/56 Everton were on a high – they’d just escaped from Division 2, changing places with a descending Liverpool, who remained there until the end of 1961/62.

Was Jurgen Klopp justified in complaining about having to play in Europe on a Thursday evening and again at home on the following Sunday?

It’s that time of year again. Fans, some of whom seem to judge transfer prospects solely on the basis of what they’d seen on Match of the Day, offer their opinions as to who we should pay ridiculously small sums for in order to turn them into world-beaters.

Historically, there are at least half a dozen other significant factors which have skewed the size of a home crowd, plus an overriding one called the Premier League.

The outbreak of war on 4 August 1914 sparked an internal, sporting political war in England.

You meet a Manc and try to make him guess which two football grounds have a statue of a former Liverpool player outside

In the recent controversy about heading a football, some argue that a blanket ban should be introduced to lessen the threat of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases in retired players.

Managers cannot always send out their best sides so they have to make changes.

Time almost stands still for the spectators behind the goal who can get little idea how fast the spinning ball is traveling towards them.

Much has been written about the subsequent rise back into, and to the top of, Division 1, but what caused the decline itself?

In 1994, a judgement in the European Court of Human Rights was the trigger for a period of chaos in the football world.

When Roy Hodgson arrived on 1 July 2010 to take up his 18th managerial job, the parts were already in place for the disaster to happen.

Recently Colin Rogers documented Liverpool's use of substitutes in First Division matches from 1965/66 to 1986/87. Here he continues his interesting analysis for 1987/88 to 2007/08.

Eleven against ten can prove problematic.

By Colin Rogers. LFC’s use of substitutes in First Division matches – Part 1, 1965/66 to 1986/87.

For most of the Victorian era, all football was based on the notion of ‘friendliness’, and the willingness to participate was born out of the love of the game. It was competitive only in the non-formal sense, solely within the match being played.

Football relies very heavily on the assumption of independence and impartiality on the part of referees, wherever games are played and whoever is playing them.

You begin to wonder whether the years under Shankly, Paisley and Dalglish, were all that consistently glorious after all. Our record against clubs in the lowest league positions was considerably worse than in more modern times.

Between 1892 and 2021, some 230 Liverpool players have been sent out on loan, about 100 of them more than once, but we have received only twenty-nine, less than the equivalent of a modern full squad.

An antidote for LFC fans who aren’t.

The numbers represented a place on the pitch, not an individual, named player.

"Ideal captains are born not made". The story of Liverpool's skippers.

Assessing the relative success of football managers, especially in historical periods, is what nowadays would be called challenging – that is, just this side of foolhardy. There are so many variables which can affect a team and club’s performance - financial backing, transfers in and out, league levels, and so on, over which the manager has little or no control. Former LFC players have managed at many different levels, from top tier to well below the fourth tier.

The basis of the article is the list of 89 testimonials on LFChistory.net.

“Well, that’s it, then!” said my mother. It is my earliest memory, and all I had to worry about was the horrified look on her face."

Has Liverpool been affected by a jinx, whether it is real in the sense of something malevolent, externally caused, which results in Fate’s denial of our club’s just deserts?

How do the champions elect perform at the end of the season?

Liverpool is, arguably, the second most international city in England, and it is no surprise that LFC has attracted a substantial number of foreign players.

The contribution of non-English players to the history of LFC. Part I of Colin Rogers' massive study in this subject matter, written for LFChistory.net.

17/18 December 2019 was unique in the annals of LFC and in the annals of English football.

There’s nothing in football like the Kop. It throbs like some huge factory. Those fans come not only to be entertained, but to entertain.’ – From a press report in 1963.