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1st Division

Newcastle Road | Saturday 17 October 1896 at 15:15 UK local time

Sunderland 4 - 3 Liverpool

Half time 3–0

Starting Lineup

Harry Storer
Archie Goldie
Tom Wilkie
John McCartney
Robert Neill
John Holmes
Malcolm McVean
Jimmy Ross (c)
George Allan
Willie Michael
Harry Bradshaw

Opposition Lineup

Ned Doig
Robert McNeill
Donald Gow
Matthew Ferguson
Billy Dunlop
Hugh Wilson
James Gillespie
John Harvey
John Campbell
Jimmy Hannah
Andrew Hamilton

Notes

  • - Archie Goldie scores his first LFC goal

Other details

Manager: Tom Watson
Opposition manager: Robert Campbell
Referee: Fox J
Attendance: 7,000
Half-time score: 3 - 0
Game number: 136
League game number: 97
Liverpool league position: 6th
Sunderland league position: 15th
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Match timeline

Liverpool
Sunderland
2'
Jimmy Hannah (0–1)
15'
Andrew Hamilton (0–2)
44'
Jimmy Hannah (0–3)
HT 0–3
Archie Goldie (1–3)
72'
76'
Andrew Hamilton (1–4)
Donald Gow o.g. (2–4)
85'
George Allan (3–4)
88'
Full time 3–4

Match archive

Liverpool Mercury report
Liverpool Mercury report
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