John Houlding The man who created Merseyside football

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 In the year of our Lord eighteen ninety and two

John Houlding evicted the blues

From their Anfield abode on the Walton Breck Road

He was tired of seeing them lose

Year's behind in rent all their money was spent

A bank that held nothing but zeros

But Houlding instead built a team dressed in red

Liverpool his Anfield heroes

John Houlding n'était pas un joueur ni un entraîneur, mais un homme d'affaires. Ayant fait sa richesse grâce à une brasserie, il devient maire de Liverpool en 1897. Mais il est surtout connu pour avoir fonder Liverpool FC en 1892. C'est lui également qui fonde le stade Anfield Road en 1884, tout d'abord pour le Everton FC, l'autre club de la ville qui était alors obligé de jouer dans un terrain vague.  Everton est l'un des clubs fondateurs du championnat anglais. Houlding augmente peu à peu le loyer d'Anfield, ce qui oblige Everton à quitter le stade. En 1892, le tout nouveau club Liverpool fondé par Houlding (pour qu'Anfield ne reste pas vide) prend le stade et Goodison Park est construit. Le premier match de Liverpool à Anfield le 1er septembre 1892 est remporté 7-1 contre Rotherdam Town.

In 1892, Everton were one of the most successful teams and had even clinched a league title at Anfield. Their on-field success matched that of Houlding who’s businesses had continued to grow and he could now afford to buy the ground outright, which he did. Due to the huge investments into the stadium, the purchase of the land and the growth of Everton  Houlding proposed an increased rent amount to the current tenants. This was not met with much joy and the nearly 300 board members held a meeting to decide on the future of the club, the increased rent amount and involvement of alcohol to the finances of the former church club was enough to cut ties and leave Anfield. John Houlding now had the a state-of-the-art stadium but no team to play in it, he moved to try and found Everton Athletic to spite the old tenants of the ground, but the name was rejected by the Football League and so he founded Liverpool FC in 1892.

The new team played in blue and white and were put together in weeks, most of the city didn’t care about the new club and were at Goodison Park when less than 100 people watched Liverpool’s first ever game at Anfield. John Houlding triumphantly kicked off the maiden game where 11 Scottish players represented the ‘team of Macs’, led by former Everton captain Andy Hanner, who won 7-1 against Rotherham. Inside eight years, Liverpool had won the First Division twice and the rest, as they say, is history. Disputes over rent amounts and the morality of beer meant that Everton left Anfield and forced Houlding to create a new team, how different it all could have been if they just agreed to pay a bit more rent!