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1st Division

City Ground | Thursday 1 October 1908 at 15:30 UK local time

Nottingham Forest 5 - 1 Liverpool
Half time 2–1

Starting Lineup (Average age 26.5)

1
Sam Hardy
2
Alf West
3
Tom Rogers
4
Maurice Parry
5
Jimmy Harrop
6
James Bradley
7
Arthur Goddard
8
Bobby Robinson
9
Joe Hewitt (c)
10
Jack Parkinson
11
Sam Bowyer

Opposition Lineup

Harry Linacre
Walter Dudley
Ginger Maltby
Ted Hughes
George Wolfe
Jack Armstrong
Bill Hooper
Tom Marrison
Enoch West
Grenville Morris
Wallace Birch

Notes

  • - Sam Bowyer scores his first LFC goal
  • - Tom Rogers suffered a bad knee injury and had to retire from the field prior to Liverpool's first goal. He didn't feature for Liverpool until 11 months later.

Other details

Manager: Tom Watson
Opposition manager: Harold Haslam(Sr)
Referee: Unknown
Attendance: 10,000
Half-time score: 2 - 1
Game number: 589
League game number: 507
Liverpool league position: 5th
Nottingham Forest league position: 13th
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Match timeline

Liverpool
Nottingham Forest
Sam Bowyer (1–0)
10'
20'
Enoch West (1–1)
30'
Grenville Morris (1–2)
HT 1–2
59'
Bill Hooper (1–3)
65'
Grenville Morris (1–4)
75'
Bill Hooper (1–5)
Full time 1–5