davek
Player Valuation: £150m
If Everton were (which I don't think they were in all honesty and there's no documentary evidence that backs it up) then so were Liverpool, given that Liverpool were formed from Everton.
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Liverpool where a Church club but it was the Church of Satan.
PSB1
Player Valuation: £8m
You're probably right. I'm just going by Wiki ... maybe not the most reliable!
BigDunc'sFod
Player Valuation: £35m
Erm, mate?
Hang on. You don't think Everton were founded from a church?
Do you have some inside knowledge that every football historian and local historian from the past 140 years did not have?
Alan Whittle
Player Valuation: £60m
Brighton have never beaten any of them?
Doh
So we can't morph Into St Domingo Phoenix when it all turns to custard on the financial front?
There is another building, built within the footprint of each clubs ground (old white harte lane) that is not part of the stands/club facilities.
duncs pigeon
Player Valuation: £35m
@Littlesue already has,she put me in my place with a very strong warning of what could happenDon’t let a Baggie see this
@Littlesue already has,she put me in my place with a very strong warning of what could happen
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
There's absolutely no documentary evidence to that effect.
There was a St Domingo cricket team that most definitely did come from that chapel. It's a massive stretch to state that Everton came out of it.
Most definitely former congregants of St Domingo formed part of Everton FC when it was founded as a district team in 1879 - Cuff states as much and Keates' early history states it too - but along with other players from other churches in the area....in fact you could easily dump the term 'church' right out of the equation. The lads who formed Everton may have been formally or informally connected to churches when they were growing up but they assembled on Stanley Park as players who hailed from Everton (the district) and represented only that district rather than some notion of a religious root they'd come from.
Have you got that in writing as I've contacted the clubs biographer and he would like to know more?
I already have, within 30 seconds of him postingDon’t let a Baggie see this
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Think you're right :
Everton Football Club, founded in 1878, can trace its roots back to a Methodist chapel dedicated to St Domingo that once stood in the north end of Liverpool. Ben Chambers, at that time, ministered the chapel. Reverend Chambers had recently arrived in Liverpool the Rugby playing stronghold of Huddersfield where he was born. It is unlikely that he brought with him any knowledge of football that was played under the rules of the Football Association. Nevertheless, amongst the local congregation was a certain Thomas Evans a well-experienced football player who had learnt to play the association game back in his native Derbyshire. Tom Evans, under the watchful eye of the church elders, would have likely organized a series of impromptu soccer matches amongst the younger members of the congregation on a piece of land, laid out for public recreation, named Stanley Park. One year later the players severed their eccliasitacal roots and found new headquarters at the Queens Hotel in the district of Everton to which they changed their name. They continued to play their home matches on Stanley Park and, it was at this location, that they first played host to a team of players from St Johns, church in Bootle. Their curate, Alfred Keely, led the visitors.
