EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB
The Liverpool Echo- Saturday, July 4, 1896
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ECHO
Sir- Now that we shall soon have the football season with us again, it is to be truly hoped that the Everton directors will try and remedy a long-standing drawback to that splendid ground -that is, the exit after a big match, such as Sunderland, Derby County, Liverpool and other clubs. Everyone who frequents Goodison park on such occasions as these knowns perfectly well what to expect. It means that you have to leave the ground ten minutes before the match is finished, which every football enthusiast knows to be the most interesting ten minutes of the whole match, as many a match is won and lost during that time; or you must stop at least fifteen minutes after the finish, often in snow and rain, unless you want to get crushed nearly to death. Often have myself and friends been treated in this manner. If you should wait until you get outside, you find all trams, &c., full up and gone, and you are left to get home the best way you can. Myself and friends have often had to take a cab, which means 2s 6d or 3s. all this could be easily rectified if two (or say three) additional gates were added in Goodison-road, made on the same principle as the gates at the dock sheds, to slide back. A boy could then easily slide them back say ten minutes before a match is finished, and allow everyone the same chance of getting out. I am quite sure it is pitiful to see ladies and gentlemen who want to avoid the big crush standing sometimes for twenty or twenty-five minutes on the could ground and in the sheds. I took the trouble to walk up and measure the front of the ground in Goodison-road, which is 167 yards, and out of all that space there are two five-yard gates for exit. This seems quite ridiculous for one of the best supported clubs in England. Why not study the supporters? It is not English to say, “Come in, give me your money; get out the best way you can.” -Yours, &c., C.J.D.

EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB
The Liverpool Echo-Saturday, July 4, 1896
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ECHO
Sir- on perusing my Saturday night’s Echo I noticed a letter from “C.J.D.” relating to the great inconvenience experienced by spectators at the above clubs ground as regards this insufficient entrances and exit. My friends and I have on several occasions been placed in the same position, which certainly does not attract spectators. I overheard the remark ofttimes last season that the exit spoiled the afternoon’s pleasure. Now that the financial position of the club stands so well, night we ask the Everton directors for consideration in the matter in question? From my point of view I should say we will have another record gate this season, with Liverpool in the First Division. It is wonderful there are not more accidents at Goodison Park through the difficulty mentioned.- Yours, &c., J.A.K.

EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB SPORT
The Liverpool Daily Post- Tuesday, July 8, 1896
Last evening, the committee having the above in hand met at the Bee Hotel, under the chairmanship of Dr. Baxter. The gala will be held on the 22nd of next month at Goodison Park, and a splendid list of prizes have been secured, which it is thought will attract some of the best athletics in the north. A deputation was chosen to wait on Captain Nott Bower in order to secure the services of the Police Band for the occasion. Mr. J. Crawshaw proposed, and Mr. R. Molyneux seconded, that Bootle Hospital be added to the list of charities it is intended to assist. Mr. John Prescott supported the motion, which was carried. The list of charities are the Hospital Saturday Fund, the Lifeboat Fund, Stanley Hospital and Bootle Hospital.

WILLIE MICHAEL
Wishaw Press- Saturday 11 July 1896
Willie Michael has signed on for Everton (Liverpool).

THE BOLTON WANDERERS FOOTBALL CLUB
The Liverpool Daily Post- Thursday July 30, 1896
THE SECRETARYSHIP
SUCCESS OF A LIVERPOOL CANDIDATE
On Tuesday Mr. Frank E. Brettell, of Liverpool, was almost unanimously elected to the post of secretary of the Bolton Wanderers Football Club. Altogether there were eighty applications for the office from different parts of the country, and the three candidates left for final selection were Mr. Magnall (Bolton), Mr. Ferguson (Glasgow), and Mr. Brettell. Mr. Brettell’s connect with Association football in Liverpool is so well known that it is unnecessary to recapitulate it here. He has grown with the game in this neighbourhood and years ago he acted as hon Secretary of the Everton Club, and was one of the few who practically held that organisation together when there was just a chance of it passing out of existences. Local footballers, at least, will heartily wish him success in his new sphere.