Our first ever match was played on 1st September 1892, so that ad would predate it.
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Yes, it’s just that they are looking for 4 specific players. I’d always assumed that they just went up to Scotland and hired an entire team of professionals.
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Give @cynicaloldgit time to remember, 132 years is a lot to go back in his memory…
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He would have been a probable then.
Nah, the ad clearly states first-class men only 
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Amongst the trialists.
Got rejected because you were too cynical to run.
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You spelt “lazy” wrong.
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You probably were mouthing off the others. A lazy prick like myself wouldn’t have bothered
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I never knew this so it has piqued my interest because I think it may have been around the time my great-grandparents (or great, great grandparents?) moved to Liverpool from Scotland. So I wonder how much of the decision to recruit Scottish players at that time was down to the fact that the City had large Scottish population at the time already (I assume it had?) or was it more a business move because Scottish footballers were available and better than other british counterparts?
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I think a big part was the perspective on professionalism. Football in England in the 19th century was a sport of the aristocracy and even as it started professionalizing around the big industrial towns and cities those emerging clubs tended to look to Scotland for players as there was a more developed sense there of it being something you could commit to as your day job.
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Just put the early Série A game and Reina is playing for Como, must be in his 40s now.
Slowly turning into looking like Beneitz 
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42 in 5 days I think?
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Another online find, the change of name document that established Liverpool Football Club (and Athletic Grounds).
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He’s hung up those international boots - I do wonder if Bielsa has decided Suarez doesn’t have the legs for his style of football.
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West Ham in stunning move for Champions League-winning former Liverpool star Klopp called ‘outstanding’
Story by James Holland
West Ham United have made former Liverpool star Joel Matip their No 1 target to strengthen the defence after the transfer window shut and are stepping up their pursuit of him, it has been revealed.
Matip has been a free agent since July 1. Over the last month, the ex-Cameroon international has been linked with a shock move to Everton, while Bayer Leverkusen were interested in him in case they lost Jonathan Tah.
Neither of those transfers materialised though, and Matip could now head elsewhere. Two days ago, trusted West Ham source ExWHUEmployee revealed that Julen Lopetegui’s side hold interest in capturing Matip.
That same source has now provided an update on the situation. West Ham are ‘pushing ahead’ in their chase to sign Matip. The Irons are also interested in fellow centre-half John Egan, who has been a free agent since leaving Sheffield United at the end of last season, but Matip is their ‘preferred choice’.
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Get a steal on them and get Matip in… again
I’ve probably been on record that Joel , when fit , has quite a lot of times been better on that day than Virg
One year contract with an option of another year
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As much as I love Joel, think the ship has sailed. Focus should be on getting Virgil’s contract sorted in terms of having an elder statesmen in the defensive ranks/in the squad.