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The 1915 football season was completed, but the clubs thought not of victory, but not bankrupt.
Everyone understood that football was about to come.
The champion tells how at this difficult time Manchester United received Liverpool on “Old Trafford”, and what it led to.
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It was so long ago that the grandchildren of witnesses of those events have their grandchildren.
April 2, 1915 – already with radio, but without penicillin.
However, Old Trafford was already standing where he was standing, and 18,000 spectators came here to see the match with Liverpool.
At that time, this derby has not yet earned the cult status, although the Manchester Shipping Dankey was already opened – therefore, the relations of the two cities began to change irrevocably.
The Liverpool table went in the middle – the rear not pass, but also to the prizes far. Man United, in turn, swim in the departure zone, and only victory could be saved. What is not intrigue?
Also, Holy Friday on the church calendar – it seemed that nothing could go bad.
But it went.
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“Liverpool’s attackers showed the weakest game for the whole season,” Sporting Chronicle summarized. ”
Another newspaper Post She wrote that the captain of Mu Patrick O’Connell “funnyly punched the penalty past the gate, evoping the judge’s suspicion.”
Manchester Football Chronicle called the “Amazing” game: “None of the teams showed energy drops after MJ led with a difference of 2 goals. Football was the worst that could be seen this season.”
Together, they were shocked to tell how Liverpool striker Fred Pagne hit the crossbar and attacked him … their own.
What is the hell for the match?!
MJ won and kept a residence permit in the elite, but even the most naive fans have had doubts.
From the very emergence of professional leagues, England was swollen by bookmakers, and although no one was able to catch a hand, rumors about the “contractuals” went more and more often, and the inaction of the league annoyed.
The people sought justice, especially since at this time their relatives rot in the trenches of France and Belgium, leading the war with the Germans whom they did not see. It turns out that some were supposed to die for the crown, while others at this time have been awakened by their favorite game?!
Someone had to be a sacred victim – and Liverpool was packed with Mu just in time.
***
It all started with an anonymous bookmaker post Football King to Sporting Chronicle:
“I have a good reason to believe that the match played in Manchester during the Easter holidays was a false. The home team was allowed to win with a certain account.”
Since both the press and fans could subscribe, the football league began an investigation, formed a commission that elected the headquarters of the Grand Elite Hotel. They also interrogated all involved.
A week, two, three spent …
By the summer, the commission identified eight potential culprits. From Mana United was Arthur Wolly, Sandy Ternbulle and Innove West. From Liverpool – Tom Ferfol, Bob Persell, Tom Miller and Jackie Sheldon. Another participant of the scheme is the exgrade to Crket of Lawrence Cook.
The investigation was forced by bookmakers, who were almost destroyed by the players of the players-some paid 150-200 pounds, when the largest salary in the League was 5 pounds a week.
The fans also helped, because although the players were not yet rich, everyone knew them in the face.
First of all, the policemen went to Sheldon, who spoke to Liverpool for MJ, so he knew Volly, Ternbulla and Vesta well, with whom he met in the evening before playing in the DOG and Partridge pub. The question was immediately – why?
Further, the investigation was interested in the town of Gaknall-Torcard, near Nottingham. It was here that West was born, and immediately made the most pond on the victory of Mu 2: 0.
Lawrence Cook and his bids 2-0 and there – where does he have such “intuition”?
However, there was no iron evidence for a long time until one of the participants spoke. It happened after a few months of fierce pressure and public condemnation, and he told everything – for example, as fraudsters were not honest in the end -in, because they wanted to score a goal and break the bet.
***
Even today, no one knows the name of Stukach.
Perhaps it was O’Connell, who did not kill his penalty so fun, but escaped punishment, and after the war suddenly rushed to Spain, where even became the hero of Barcelona?
Who knows.
It is much easier to understand why they did it – because football was a bad idea during the war. No illusion of a peaceful life came-on the contrary, the results of the matches lost any value against the background of thousands of coffins that came from the continent non-stop.
After the beginning of 1915, only 122 out of 1800 registered players enrolled in military service, The Times came out with the headline:
“Football is doing everything possible for the enemy.”
They began to hack; The attendance fell 4-5 times, the funding from the owners also declined and almost half of the league did not pay salaries on time. Even in the program for the MJ match – Liverpool wrote that the next season could be postponed.
And since the stars then earned no more than the miners and fishermen who watched their matches from the stands, they decided to earn a good time for families for some time.
The apartment question is everything as usual.
But, of course, it should not become an excuse. On December 23, 1915, all the eight suspects were removed from football for the rest of their lives.
***
Liverpool echo She called that day “the worst in football history.”
The sentences and Liverpool and Mana United agreed with the sentence – and it was a little funny, because although the contract was proven that the match did not start. The fact is that in the event of the defeat of the “red devils”, they would fly out of the elite, and Chelsea remained in it, which did not suit the blue ones, who very much wanted to fly out – to reduce the budget.
It is believed that this was the last drop-as early as 1916, the official Championship of England was canceled.
Meanwhile, players – and among them the culprits of the shame on “Old Trafford” – then joined the masses of people who were occupied by war, not sports. It seems that this moment the country was waiting.
O’connelle, West and Anderson settled in a defensive plant Ford Near Old Trafford.
Ferfol, Sheldon and Ternbull went to wash away the shame on the front. Of these, Jackie was seriously injured in France almost immediately, but survived. But the body of Ternbulla was never found after an unsuccessful night attack near Arras in 1917.
A sad but also typical story for the British in that war. They survived three mobilizations, lost more than 650 thousand people killed before Kaiser finally gave up.
***
Only then did the British restore football, awarded the heroes, honored the dead.
In the same 1919, Sheldon and other Amerists who returned from the front confessed to the crime and asked for a pardon. The league thought a little – and nodded; Like, they washed away with blood.
One West did not plead guilty – and so his ban was left. He was the hunted appeals, and at this time Miller scored for Scotland, Sheldon-for Liverpool, Persell played in Port Vale. Did Ferfol not return from them – he was 40, and he was a taxi driver; He also brought people to the next world massacre.
The disqualification of Vesta, as if laughing, withdrawn in October 1945, when he was 59 years old.
“He was not considered a good man in our family. He beat my father and left his grandmother, looked away from his family. He didn’t look like he was the type of boyfriend who you would like to marry your daughter,” says his grandson Roger West.
In principle, it explains a lot.
Well, the British told children about Holy Friday on “Old Trafford” for a long time. The story that began as an anecdote has become a lesson – how a low game in bad hands and in wrong circumstances can fall.
In 20 years, Neville Chamberlain has not repeated this mistake, and British football went to the war in synchronously with the first shots in Poland.
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The 1915 football season was completed, but the clubs thought not of victory, but not bankrupt.
Everyone understood that football was about to come.
The champion tells how at this difficult time Manchester United received Liverpool on “Old Trafford”, and what it led to.
***
It was so long ago that the grandchildren of witnesses of those events have their grandchildren.
April 2, 1915 – already with radio, but without penicillin.
However, Old Trafford was already standing where he was standing, and 18,000 spectators came here to see the match with Liverpool.
At that time, this derby has not yet earned the cult status, although the Manchester Shipping Dankey was already opened – therefore, the relations of the two cities began to change irrevocably.
The Liverpool table went in the middle – the rear not pass, but also to the prizes far. Man United, in turn, swim in the departure zone, and only victory could be saved. What is not intrigue?
Also, Holy Friday on the church calendar – it seemed that nothing could go bad.
But it went.
***
“Liverpool’s attackers showed the weakest game for the whole season,” Sporting Chronicle summarized. ”
Another newspaper Post She wrote that the captain of Mu Patrick O’Connell “funnyly punched the penalty past the gate, evoping the judge’s suspicion.”
Manchester Football Chronicle called the “Amazing” game: “None of the teams showed energy drops after MJ led with a difference of 2 goals. Football was the worst that could be seen this season.”
Together, they were shocked to tell how Liverpool striker Fred Pagne hit the crossbar and attacked him … their own.
What is the hell for the match?!
MJ won and kept a residence permit in the elite, but even the most naive fans have had doubts.
From the very emergence of professional leagues, England was swollen by bookmakers, and although no one was able to catch a hand, rumors about the “contractuals” went more and more often, and the inaction of the league annoyed.
The people sought justice, especially since at this time their relatives rot in the trenches of France and Belgium, leading the war with the Germans whom they did not see. It turns out that some were supposed to die for the crown, while others at this time have been awakened by their favorite game?!
Someone had to be a sacred victim – and Liverpool was packed with Mu just in time.
***
It all started with an anonymous bookmaker post Football King to Sporting Chronicle:
“I have a good reason to believe that the match played in Manchester during the Easter holidays was a false. The home team was allowed to win with a certain account.”
Since both the press and fans could subscribe, the football league began an investigation, formed a commission that elected the headquarters of the Grand Elite Hotel. They also interrogated all involved.
A week, two, three spent …
By the summer, the commission identified eight potential culprits. From Mana United was Arthur Wolly, Sandy Ternbulle and Innove West. From Liverpool – Tom Ferfol, Bob Persell, Tom Miller and Jackie Sheldon. Another participant of the scheme is the exgrade to Crket of Lawrence Cook.
The investigation was forced by bookmakers, who were almost destroyed by the players of the players-some paid 150-200 pounds, when the largest salary in the League was 5 pounds a week.
The fans also helped, because although the players were not yet rich, everyone knew them in the face.
First of all, the policemen went to Sheldon, who spoke to Liverpool for MJ, so he knew Volly, Ternbulla and Vesta well, with whom he met in the evening before playing in the DOG and Partridge pub. The question was immediately – why?
Further, the investigation was interested in the town of Gaknall-Torcard, near Nottingham. It was here that West was born, and immediately made the most pond on the victory of Mu 2: 0.
Lawrence Cook and his bids 2-0 and there – where does he have such “intuition”?
However, there was no iron evidence for a long time until one of the participants spoke. It happened after a few months of fierce pressure and public condemnation, and he told everything – for example, as fraudsters were not honest in the end -in, because they wanted to score a goal and break the bet.
***
Even today, no one knows the name of Stukach.
Perhaps it was O’Connell, who did not kill his penalty so fun, but escaped punishment, and after the war suddenly rushed to Spain, where even became the hero of Barcelona?
Who knows.
It is much easier to understand why they did it – because football was a bad idea during the war. No illusion of a peaceful life came-on the contrary, the results of the matches lost any value against the background of thousands of coffins that came from the continent non-stop.
After the beginning of 1915, only 122 out of 1800 registered players enrolled in military service, The Times came out with the headline:
“Football is doing everything possible for the enemy.”
They began to hack; The attendance fell 4-5 times, the funding from the owners also declined and almost half of the league did not pay salaries on time. Even in the program for the MJ match – Liverpool wrote that the next season could be postponed.
And since the stars then earned no more than the miners and fishermen who watched their matches from the stands, they decided to earn a good time for families for some time.
The apartment question is everything as usual.
But, of course, it should not become an excuse. On December 23, 1915, all the eight suspects were removed from football for the rest of their lives.
***
Liverpool echo She called that day “the worst in football history.”
The sentences and Liverpool and Mana United agreed with the sentence – and it was a little funny, because although the contract was proven that the match did not start. Thing is the fact that in the event of “red devils”, they would fly out of e Lita, and Chelsea remained in it, which did not suit the blue, who very much wanted to fly out – to reduce the budget.
It is believed that this was the last drop-as early as 1916, the official Championship of England was canceled.
Meanwhile, players – and among them the culprits of the shame on “Old Trafford” – then joined the masses of people who were occupied by war, not sports. It seems that this moment the country was waiting.
O’connelle, West and Anderson settled in a defensive plant Ford Near Old Trafford.
Ferfol, Sheldon and Ternbull went to wash away the shame on the front. Of these, Jackie was seriously injured in France almost immediately, but survived. But the body of Ternbulla was never found after an unsuccessful night attack near Arras in 1917.
A sad but also typical story for the British in that war. They survived three mobilizations, lost more than 650 thousand people killed before Kaiser finally gave up.
***
Only then did the British restore football, awarded the heroes, honored the dead.
In the same 1919, Sheldon and other Amerists who returned from the front confessed to the crime and asked for a pardon. The league thought a little – and nodded; Like, they washed away with blood.
One West did not plead guilty – and so his ban was left. He was the hunted appeals, and at this time Miller scored for Scotland, Sheldon-for Liverpool, Persell played in Port Vale. Did Ferfol not return from them – he was 40, and he was a taxi driver; He also brought people to the next world massacre.
The disqualification of Vesta, as if laughing, withdrawn in October 1945, when he was 59 years old.
“He was not considered a good man in our family. He beat my father and left his grandmother, looked away from his family. He didn’t look like he was the type of boyfriend who you would like to marry your daughter,” says his grandson Roger West.
In principle, it explains a lot.
Well, the British told children about Holy Friday on “Old Trafford” for a long time. The story that began as an anecdote has become a lesson – how a low game in bad hands and in wrong circumstances can fall.
In 20 years, Neville Chamberlain has not repeated this mistake, and British football went to the war in synchronously with the first shots in Poland.