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Liverpool Football Club
Liverpool Football Club claims its roots from another Liverpool team, Everton. Liverpool's rivals Everton were formed at Anfield Road in Liverpool in 1878 by John Houlding, a Liverpool businessman and future mayor of Liverpool.
Liverpool began playing at Liverpool’s Anfield Road, a field rented from a Liverpool brewer named John Orrell. As Everton became more established Houlding began to build football stands at Anfield Road. However, after a dispute in 1892 the club split into two rival Liverpool teams. One group decided to move over to Liverpool’s Goodison Park, while Houlding and a few others remained at Anfield Road, and adopted the name Liverpool Football Club. His friend John McKenna was appointed manager, and he went to Scotland to recruit players for Liverpool.
Liverpool won their first championship in 1900/01, but were again relegated two years later. After another year in the second division Liverpool bounced back up and immediately won their second championship in 1904/05. As a reward the Liverpool directors built the legendary Spion Kop for the fans. Named after a hill in Natal where a Liverpool regiment suffered heavy losses in the Boer War. Three hundred died in a vain attempt to lift the siege of Ladysmith, many of them Liverpool lads.
Liverpool won two more championship titles after World War I, but hit poor form following World War II. After several bad years Bill Shankly came to Liverpool’s rescue. He was appointed Liverpool manager in 1959, and over the next fourteen years turned Liverpool into the greatest club in English football. In his first twelve months at Liverpool he sold twenty four players. By 1963/64 they won their sixth championship, and the following year added the FA Cup to their list of titles. Liverpool continued their run of success with another league title in 1965/66.
Liverpool took the UEFA Cup in 1972/73, followed by the FA Cup again in 1973/74. Shankly then surprisingly called it a day at Liverpool, handing over the managerial role to his right-hand man at Liverpool Bob Paisley. It wasn't long before he won silverware, taking the league championship and UEFA cup in his second season at Liverpool. Next year Liverpool won the double, winning the League and beating Borussia Moenchengladbach in the European Cup. Liverpool became the first British club to retain the European Cup, beating FC Bruge 1-0 in the final of 1977/78. Two successive League titles followed for Liverpool 1978/79and 1979/80. 1981 was another great season for Liverpool, winning the first of four consecutive League Cup titles and beating Real Madrid to win the European Cup for a third time. Two more successive League titles followed for Liverpool in 1981/82 and 1982/83, before Paisley resigned. During his nine years in charge of Liverpool he won the Manager of the Year award six times.
Liverpool appointed Joe Fagan and in his first season Liverpool won their third consecutive League title, the League Cup and the European Cup, flying out from Liverpool Airport to beat AC Roma on Italian soil.
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