Everton and Jack the Ripper

[summerisle]

The most insubstantial of tenuous links to Jack the Ripper. To be blunt : there isn't one. There is however some fascinating details of our first season in the Football league.
http://historyofliverpool.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/everton-football-club-and-jack-ripper.html

 

[chicoazul]

Lad?

 

[summerisle]

Lad?

Sorry, I only understand 50% of terms here ; I presume it's complitentary.

 

[chicoazul]

Lad!

 

[Kiwi]

My head's spinning ere

 

[summerisle]

Lad!

Ah, now I understand - wash your mouth out

 

[Philw]

For this encounter, the Everton starting eleven, sporting Cambridge blue and white halved shirts and white shorts, encompassed, from goalkeeper to outside‑left, Robert Smalley, Alec Dick, Nick Ross (Captain), John Holt, Robert Jones, George Dobson, G. Fleming, D. Waugh, William Lewis, Edgar Chadwick and George Farmer, of whom no fewer than six bore surnames shared by persons connected in one fashion or another with the Jack the Ripper case

Comedy Dave would be proud...