The City Ground

BOOTLE 1 - 4 FOREST - Sat Sep 05, 1891 (Football Alliance)

Date:: Sat Sep 05, 1891 (3:00 PM)
Opponent:: Bootle
Home/Away:: Away
Ground:: Hawthorne Road
Game Type:: Football Alliance
Score:: 4-1 WON

Sources:: Ken Smales - The First 125 Years
: Pete Attaway - A Complete Record

Season:: 1891-92
Referee:
Attendance:: 4,000
League Week:: 2 of 22
Pos Before/After:: 1 1
Opp Before/After:: 4 5

NEXT GAMES:
Next Game:: Mansfield Town (Friendly)
Football Alliance:: Walsall
League:: Everton
Bootle:: Dec 12, 1891

GAME COUNT:
Football Alliance:: 46 (of 66)
Total:: 537 (of 7633)
Played:: 135 years, 6 days ago

FOREST
Manager: Harry Radford
Prior form: W (Old to recent)

Goal Scorers
William Mason
Alex Higgins
Alex Higgins
Graham (OG)

BOOTLE
Manager:

Goal Scorers
?

Lineup


Num	Pos	Age	Player	Notes
1	GK		William Brown (1890)
2	D	19	Archibald Ritchie
3	D		Adam Scott
4	M	19	Thomas Hamilton
5	M	24	John McPherson
6	M		Fred Thompson
7	F	21	William Mason
8	M	22	William 'Tich' Smith
9	F	27	Alex Higgins
10	F	22	Arthur Shaw
11	F	21	Horace Pike

	So Far¹	Last Game²
Num	Pos	Age	Player	Games	Goals	Days	Games
1	GK		William Brown (1890)	2		217	25
2	D	19	Archibald Ritchie
3	D		Adam Scott	5		203	21
4	M	19	Thomas Hamilton
5	M	24	John McPherson
6	M		Fred Thompson
7	F	21	William Mason
8	M	22	William 'Tich' Smith	5	3	203	21
9	F	27	Alex Higgins	5	11	203	21
10	F	22	Arthur Shaw	6	2	203	21
11	F	21	Horace Pike	4	1	595	71

Lineup

Num	Pos	Player
1	GK	?
2	D	?
3	D	?
4	D	?
5	D	?
6	M	?
7	M	?
8	M	?
9	M	?
10	F	?
11	F	Graham

All Games In Division 2 On This Day (Sat Sep 05, 1891)

Home	Score	Away
Bootle	1-4	Nottingham Forest
Small Heath	3-1	Burton Swifts
Walsall Town Swifts	1-3	Birmingham St George's

TABLES BEFORE AND AFTER THE GAME

Table before:

FOOTBALL ALLIANCE								Home					Away
Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Current Form	Status
1	Nottingham Forest	1	1	0	0	7	0	1	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	W
2	Ardwick	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Bootle	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Burton Swifts	1	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	7	-7	0	L
5	Crewe Alexandra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Lincoln City	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
7	Newton Heath LYR	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Small Heath	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	The Wednesday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Walsall Town Swifts	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Birmingham St George's	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2*
12	Grimsby Town	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2*

*Birmingham St George deducted 2 points for fielding an ineligible player
*Grimsby deducted 2 points for fielding an ineligible player

Table after:

	FOOTBALL ALLIANCE								Home					Away
	Pos	Club	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Current Form	Status	Result(s)
	1	Nottingham Forest	2	2	0	0	11	1	1	0	0	7	0	1	0	0	4	1	10	4	WW		4-1
6	2	Small Heath	1	1	0	0	3	1	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	W		3-1
8	3	Birmingham St George's	1	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	2	0*	W		3-1
6	4	Walsall Town Swifts	1	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	-2	0	L		1-3
2	5	Bootle	1	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	-3	0	L		1-4
2	6	Burton Swifts	2	0	0	2	1	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	10	-9	0	LL		1-3
5	7	Ardwick	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	8	Crewe Alexandra	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	9	Lincoln City	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	10	Newton Heath LYR	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	11	The Wednesday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	12	Grimsby Town	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-2*

*Birmingham St George deducted 2 points for fielding an ineligible player
*Grimsby deducted 2 points for fielding an ineligible player