Our first ever league win.
1888: Notts County 3 (Daft, Jardine, Moore) Everton 1 (Ross)
An estimated 3,000 watching at Trent Bridge. Notts playing in chocolate and blue halves.
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Our first ever league win.
1888: Notts County 3 (Daft, Jardine, Moore) Everton 1 (Ross)
An estimated 3,000 watching at Trent Bridge. Notts playing in chocolate and blue halves.
It's a sign!!!
Don't think I've ever really looked at our record in the early days, but you posting that made me look up the first season. Typical Notts - in only our third game we managed to rack up what is still our heaviest ever defeat (1-9 v Aston Villa, which we managed to suffer twice more over the next 40 years). I'm assuming the local headline was "Like lambs to the slaughter".
Local headline : Toffees topped by the chocolatesQuote:
Originally Posted by upthemaggies
One of my best mates is an Everton fan. Not sure I'll be able to claim bragging rights.Quote:
Originally Posted by upthemaggies
The Athletic News’ reporter, ‘The Tramp’, wrote on the Monday, following the 9-1 drubbing, against Aston Villa on 30th September 1888,Quote:
Originally Posted by nw6pie
“The Lambs were ruthlessly but quietly slaughtered, and the Villains good-temperedly revelling in the gory work.”
He ended his report by saying,
“I must give Notts their due, and say that they accepted their licking like thorough sportsmen.”
I bet you were theirQuote:
Originally Posted by upthemaggies