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1st Division

Burnden Park | Saturday 1 April 1899 at 15:30 UK local time

Bolton Wanderers 2 - 1 Liverpool

Half time 1–1

Starting Lineup (Average age 25.11)

1
Matt McQueen
2
Archie Goldie
3
Billy Dunlop
4
Rab Howell
5
Alex Raisbeck
6
Bill Goldie
7
Jack Cox
8
Johnny Walker
9
George Allan (c)
10
Hugh Morgan
11
Tommy Robertson

Opposition Lineup

John Sutcliffe
R Davies
George Lockhart
Jack Fitchett
Tommy Hynds
Archie Freebairn
Hugh Morgan
Alexander Gilligan
Thomas McAteer
Tom Barlow
Bob Jack

Notes

  • - Although the Liverpool Mercury match-report credits Hugh Morgan with the second Bolton goal, a report in The London Post gives Tom Barlow as the scorer and even gives the time of the goal in that report as fifty minutes.

Other details

Manager: Tom Watson
Opposition manager: John Somerville
Referee: Green C
Attendance: 15,000
Half-time score: 1 - 1
Game number: 232
League game number: 177
Liverpool league position: 2nd
Bolton Wanderers league position: 18th
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Match timeline

Liverpool
Bolton Wanderers
Hugh Morgan
1'
HT 1–1
50'
Tom Barlow
Minute unknown
Thomas McAteer
Full time 1–2

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Liverpool Mercury report
Liverpool Mercury report
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