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EVERTON TRIUMPH IN ANFIELD “DERBY” BATTLE
The Liverpool Football Echo
Debut Goals For Trentham and Lawton
Nivvy’s late Effort
Reds’ Inside Forwards Lack Punch
By Contact.
Everton won because they took chances, and took care. Liverpool’s efforts at intricate forward play went for nothing. Two youthful players neither of whom he played in a corresponding match before their first experience of the match, and “Nivvy” goal five minutes from the end pitched up the final proceedings with enthusiasm that had warned. Liverpool were best in the first fifteen minutes. Everton were best in their fool-proof defensive measures. Not a great game but a very hard one. The attendance was estimated at 45,000. Eight players –most of them young ones –embarked on their first experience of Everton-Liverpool meetings here, at Anfield today. They were Lawton, Dougal, Trentham, and Watson (Everton) and Kemp, Harley, Rogers and Eastham (Liverpool). Much depended upon these newcomers and their ability or otherwise to play normally on the big occasion. Holding the scales of football justice on such an occasion is not an easy matter, but I hope I will have succeeded. Teams: - Liverpool: - Kemp, goal; Harley and Dabbs, backs; Busby (captain), Rogers, and McDougall, half-backs; Nieuwenhuys, Taylor, Howe, Eastham and Hanson, forwards. Everton: - Sagar, Cook and Jones (je), backs; Mercer, Gee (captain), and Watson, half-backs; Geldard, Stevenson, Lawton, Dougal, and Trentham, forwards. Referee Mr. E Dedman, of Blackpool. There had been a doubt about Hanson this morning, but he was able to play and so we started, before a nicely filled ground, with a touch of lighter vein at the start when matt Busby had to tell the referee that Liverpool had lost the toss, and therefore Everton were at least entitled to the kick-off. There was an early thrill. The whistle went for a foul on Taylor, and Hanson made one of his customary evincible free kicks efforts, but Sagar pushed round the bottom of the post in fine style. As though to balance this, Geldard was uprooted just outside the Liverpool penalty area and Lawton’s shot, which was right on the mark was deflected still not sufficiently to be worrying to Kemp. It was a fast opening pace, and probably the brightest game at Anfield thus far, with the initiative changing hands at every moment and Eastham playing a big part in Liverpool’s left wing success. Hanson, too, was prominent and Howe now got too much angle on a header from a good length centre by the wingman after Hanson had beaten all and sundry. Hanson, went inside and to Taylor came another heading chance, but there was no sting about it. Jones beat Eastham to the ball as the boy was going through the centre in a burst that might have left him with a rare good chance. Then, Gee who was making the centre of the field singularly his, nipped in a way that left no doubt as to whose ball it was this being but one bit of a lot of useful work he had put in already. A big kick effort by Dabbs was timed wrongly but there was no one to prevent Kemp picking up at his leisure. At this stage Cook handled a dangerous looking pass from McDougall to Hanson, but as he eventually got rid of the free kick he justified himself.
Trentham Takes His Chance.
Then Rogers unceremoniously bundled over Lawton near the touchline, and the free kick led to Geldard delivering a grand centre which was promptly put across to the left by Dougal to give Trentham a running-in chance he took perfectly. Kemp seemed to have the ball covered but if passed between his grasp and the spright an unusual goal and an early distinction for Trentham in his first game. This happened after a quarter of an hour. An Eastham centre nearly led to an equaliser. “Nivvy’s” header from the luck spinning awkward for Sagar. Things began to get a bit hot at this stage, and the natural desire on both sides came out rather strongly with the consequent equal to free kick and ill-feeling. It was diamond-cut-diamond with Everton naturally sitting-on what they hold. Mercer did one fine piece of recovery work, but his pass was to Busby. That meant that “Nivvy” was set going, and everyone had sensed the direction of his work after going inward Sagar would have been busy.
Lawton’s Penalty Drive.
Instead, Sagar became a fully-fledged outfield player, dribbling the ball out of his penalty are along in front of the main stand before making his clearance. Mercer still could not get the ball purring to the right man. Gradually the game lost some of its early brightness and there was a change in the temper as well as the tempo. There was a surprising penalty incident when first McDougall and then Dabbs toppled Geldard. The latter offence was in the prescribed area and there was no hesitation about the penalty decision even if these might have been any doubt about it. Lawton took the kick and Kemp could have little chance against his full-blooded shot. So at 27 minutes Everton led 2-0, and the ironic part of it from Liverpool’s point of view was that Lawton. Like Trentham, had never played in a “Derby” of this kind before. Yet another freak, this time in favour of Eastham, was the beginning of a prolonged bout of heading in front of Sagar, the goalkeeper punching away when challenged by “Nivvy.” Eastham tried to bore his way through, but was forced to make a pass to Hanson instead of a shot, and Geldard, but for a foul against Dabbs, might have been clean through. Everton now came into their own and Trentham placed the ball back for Dougal to swing it over the bar, after going to the right to clear the way. Hanson, centres were always dangerous but Sagar gave nothing away and his punching was clean and safe. All the Liverpool danger had been on the left wing and it seemed they must score when Taylor kicked a header in from a Hanson corner. But Cook was there to head the ball upwards and then head it out for another corner. Everton defence was sure, and too well packed together to allow the rather close movement of Liverpool’s attack to get anywhere. When “Nivvy” swung the ball across at the first time of asking Taylor caught the inspiration of the move and shot without delay, the ball soaring just too high. “Nivvy” and Howe went up with Sagar in a leap to connect with a high centre from Hanson, and Sagar injured his ribs in the process, without needing prolonged attention. Liverpool were profitigate with chances, and the strange thing was that they got so far so easily, and then found the barrier up against them. Sagar did well to get the ball away right on the interval when challenged by “Nivvy” and dealing with Busby’s curling free-kick.
Half-Time Liverpool 0, Everton 2
Taylor missed a good chance from “Nivvy” early in the second half. Geldard, who had been kept fairly quiet all through, came in to centre Kemp doing well to get his fist to the ball, with Lawton and others alongside. There was still a need for a more punishing finish from Liverpool, whose approach work was good enough to promise so much. When Howe nodded the ball across to Eastham as he thought, it was a ready made clearance for Mercer at a critical moment. The honest Rogers may have used a negative policy, but he was anything but negligible in value. Harley too, had done extremely well. Hereabout Hanson flashed the ball across the face of the goal and the heads of three colleagues.
Geldards-Speed.
Geldard came more into the public gaze, using his great speed, and centring ability to its full extent. Everton were on top for a spell, and a stoppage for a slight facial injury to Rogers was a relieving moment in more senses than one. The tragic misunderstanding and weakness of the Liverpool inside forwards was shown up and the Everton defence profited greatly by the “parlays” of the opposition at certain times. The game needed a livening incident. Liverpool’s shooting was wanting. There was a degenerate look about the game now and the lack of stamina began to tell its tale. Geldard should have been a certain soccer when he nipped through, over Roger’s legs, and lashed in a shot that swing wide.
Busby’s Patent Touch.
When Mercer became an outside right and delivered the good’s in the form of a pulled centre no one could connect with the good chance and Busby used a patent back-heel notion to put the ball to Kemp. By this time what pretensions Liverpool had towards combined forward play had nearly gone and Howe’s how at a venture drive though at least the right idea was all too wide. “Nivvy” and Taylor changed places, but it was at outside-left that “Nivvy” won a free kick when Gee held him off. Hanson’s free kick was another sure catch for Sagar. Gee and Jones with Watson ably aiding and abetting played their part in one splutter of revival, but there were so many closely worked moves attempted that crowding out was the easiest and most effective reply from the opposition. Injury to Hanson brought on both trainers and a welcome sponge, for it had been a hard game, if not a particularly brilliant one, and after the first 15 minutes shine had been taken off it. Watson made the miskick of the match and recovered in time to save himself and his side. Cook was spoken to after Howe had been charged heavily the referee allowing play to go on as the centre forward had got in his pass to Hanson. There was few thrilling moments left, but Liverpool nearly snatched a goal when Taylor head over the bar from Hanson’s centre. Trentham narrowly missed converting a fast centre from Lawton, who had verged to the right to escape Rogers.
“Nivvy” Gets Through”
The game was dull and dying when Liverpool scored five minutes from the end through Nieuwenhuys. The goal unleashed a thousand cheers with the hope of the game being saved for the home side. It arose when Hanson centred and the South African, running in found the ball coming just right for a downward header. Yet strange to say, although Liverpool were fired with enthusiasm, it was Lawton who nearly scored immediately afterwards and Kemp was glad to push the ball away before grasping it at the second attempt. Busby was the inspiring force behind Liverpool’s revival hopes, and Everton must have feared the worst with the opposition crowding on every inch of sail, as it were. But the necessary second goal did not arise. Final Liverpool 1, Everton 2.
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The Liverpool Football Echo
Debut Goals For Trentham and Lawton
Nivvy’s late Effort
Reds’ Inside Forwards Lack Punch
By Contact.
Everton won because they took chances, and took care. Liverpool’s efforts at intricate forward play went for nothing. Two youthful players neither of whom he played in a corresponding match before their first experience of the match, and “Nivvy” goal five minutes from the end pitched up the final proceedings with enthusiasm that had warned. Liverpool were best in the first fifteen minutes. Everton were best in their fool-proof defensive measures. Not a great game but a very hard one. The attendance was estimated at 45,000. Eight players –most of them young ones –embarked on their first experience of Everton-Liverpool meetings here, at Anfield today. They were Lawton, Dougal, Trentham, and Watson (Everton) and Kemp, Harley, Rogers and Eastham (Liverpool). Much depended upon these newcomers and their ability or otherwise to play normally on the big occasion. Holding the scales of football justice on such an occasion is not an easy matter, but I hope I will have succeeded. Teams: - Liverpool: - Kemp, goal; Harley and Dabbs, backs; Busby (captain), Rogers, and McDougall, half-backs; Nieuwenhuys, Taylor, Howe, Eastham and Hanson, forwards. Everton: - Sagar, Cook and Jones (je), backs; Mercer, Gee (captain), and Watson, half-backs; Geldard, Stevenson, Lawton, Dougal, and Trentham, forwards. Referee Mr. E Dedman, of Blackpool. There had been a doubt about Hanson this morning, but he was able to play and so we started, before a nicely filled ground, with a touch of lighter vein at the start when matt Busby had to tell the referee that Liverpool had lost the toss, and therefore Everton were at least entitled to the kick-off. There was an early thrill. The whistle went for a foul on Taylor, and Hanson made one of his customary evincible free kicks efforts, but Sagar pushed round the bottom of the post in fine style. As though to balance this, Geldard was uprooted just outside the Liverpool penalty area and Lawton’s shot, which was right on the mark was deflected still not sufficiently to be worrying to Kemp. It was a fast opening pace, and probably the brightest game at Anfield thus far, with the initiative changing hands at every moment and Eastham playing a big part in Liverpool’s left wing success. Hanson, too, was prominent and Howe now got too much angle on a header from a good length centre by the wingman after Hanson had beaten all and sundry. Hanson, went inside and to Taylor came another heading chance, but there was no sting about it. Jones beat Eastham to the ball as the boy was going through the centre in a burst that might have left him with a rare good chance. Then, Gee who was making the centre of the field singularly his, nipped in a way that left no doubt as to whose ball it was this being but one bit of a lot of useful work he had put in already. A big kick effort by Dabbs was timed wrongly but there was no one to prevent Kemp picking up at his leisure. At this stage Cook handled a dangerous looking pass from McDougall to Hanson, but as he eventually got rid of the free kick he justified himself.
Trentham Takes His Chance.
Then Rogers unceremoniously bundled over Lawton near the touchline, and the free kick led to Geldard delivering a grand centre which was promptly put across to the left by Dougal to give Trentham a running-in chance he took perfectly. Kemp seemed to have the ball covered but if passed between his grasp and the spright an unusual goal and an early distinction for Trentham in his first game. This happened after a quarter of an hour. An Eastham centre nearly led to an equaliser. “Nivvy’s” header from the luck spinning awkward for Sagar. Things began to get a bit hot at this stage, and the natural desire on both sides came out rather strongly with the consequent equal to free kick and ill-feeling. It was diamond-cut-diamond with Everton naturally sitting-on what they hold. Mercer did one fine piece of recovery work, but his pass was to Busby. That meant that “Nivvy” was set going, and everyone had sensed the direction of his work after going inward Sagar would have been busy.
Lawton’s Penalty Drive.
Instead, Sagar became a fully-fledged outfield player, dribbling the ball out of his penalty are along in front of the main stand before making his clearance. Mercer still could not get the ball purring to the right man. Gradually the game lost some of its early brightness and there was a change in the temper as well as the tempo. There was a surprising penalty incident when first McDougall and then Dabbs toppled Geldard. The latter offence was in the prescribed area and there was no hesitation about the penalty decision even if these might have been any doubt about it. Lawton took the kick and Kemp could have little chance against his full-blooded shot. So at 27 minutes Everton led 2-0, and the ironic part of it from Liverpool’s point of view was that Lawton. Like Trentham, had never played in a “Derby” of this kind before. Yet another freak, this time in favour of Eastham, was the beginning of a prolonged bout of heading in front of Sagar, the goalkeeper punching away when challenged by “Nivvy.” Eastham tried to bore his way through, but was forced to make a pass to Hanson instead of a shot, and Geldard, but for a foul against Dabbs, might have been clean through. Everton now came into their own and Trentham placed the ball back for Dougal to swing it over the bar, after going to the right to clear the way. Hanson, centres were always dangerous but Sagar gave nothing away and his punching was clean and safe. All the Liverpool danger had been on the left wing and it seemed they must score when Taylor kicked a header in from a Hanson corner. But Cook was there to head the ball upwards and then head it out for another corner. Everton defence was sure, and too well packed together to allow the rather close movement of Liverpool’s attack to get anywhere. When “Nivvy” swung the ball across at the first time of asking Taylor caught the inspiration of the move and shot without delay, the ball soaring just too high. “Nivvy” and Howe went up with Sagar in a leap to connect with a high centre from Hanson, and Sagar injured his ribs in the process, without needing prolonged attention. Liverpool were profitigate with chances, and the strange thing was that they got so far so easily, and then found the barrier up against them. Sagar did well to get the ball away right on the interval when challenged by “Nivvy” and dealing with Busby’s curling free-kick.
Half-Time Liverpool 0, Everton 2
Taylor missed a good chance from “Nivvy” early in the second half. Geldard, who had been kept fairly quiet all through, came in to centre Kemp doing well to get his fist to the ball, with Lawton and others alongside. There was still a need for a more punishing finish from Liverpool, whose approach work was good enough to promise so much. When Howe nodded the ball across to Eastham as he thought, it was a ready made clearance for Mercer at a critical moment. The honest Rogers may have used a negative policy, but he was anything but negligible in value. Harley too, had done extremely well. Hereabout Hanson flashed the ball across the face of the goal and the heads of three colleagues.
Geldards-Speed.
Geldard came more into the public gaze, using his great speed, and centring ability to its full extent. Everton were on top for a spell, and a stoppage for a slight facial injury to Rogers was a relieving moment in more senses than one. The tragic misunderstanding and weakness of the Liverpool inside forwards was shown up and the Everton defence profited greatly by the “parlays” of the opposition at certain times. The game needed a livening incident. Liverpool’s shooting was wanting. There was a degenerate look about the game now and the lack of stamina began to tell its tale. Geldard should have been a certain soccer when he nipped through, over Roger’s legs, and lashed in a shot that swing wide.
Busby’s Patent Touch.
When Mercer became an outside right and delivered the good’s in the form of a pulled centre no one could connect with the good chance and Busby used a patent back-heel notion to put the ball to Kemp. By this time what pretensions Liverpool had towards combined forward play had nearly gone and Howe’s how at a venture drive though at least the right idea was all too wide. “Nivvy” and Taylor changed places, but it was at outside-left that “Nivvy” won a free kick when Gee held him off. Hanson’s free kick was another sure catch for Sagar. Gee and Jones with Watson ably aiding and abetting played their part in one splutter of revival, but there were so many closely worked moves attempted that crowding out was the easiest and most effective reply from the opposition. Injury to Hanson brought on both trainers and a welcome sponge, for it had been a hard game, if not a particularly brilliant one, and after the first 15 minutes shine had been taken off it. Watson made the miskick of the match and recovered in time to save himself and his side. Cook was spoken to after Howe had been charged heavily the referee allowing play to go on as the centre forward had got in his pass to Hanson. There was few thrilling moments left, but Liverpool nearly snatched a goal when Taylor head over the bar from Hanson’s centre. Trentham narrowly missed converting a fast centre from Lawton, who had verged to the right to escape Rogers.
“Nivvy” Gets Through”
The game was dull and dying when Liverpool scored five minutes from the end through Nieuwenhuys. The goal unleashed a thousand cheers with the hope of the game being saved for the home side. It arose when Hanson centred and the South African, running in found the ball coming just right for a downward header. Yet strange to say, although Liverpool were fired with enthusiasm, it was Lawton who nearly scored immediately afterwards and Kemp was glad to push the ball away before grasping it at the second attempt. Busby was the inspiring force behind Liverpool’s revival hopes, and Everton must have feared the worst with the opposition crowding on every inch of sail, as it were. But the necessary second goal did not arise. Final Liverpool 1, Everton 2.
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