The Reverends who kicked off football’s greatest clubs
How these remarkable founders shaped the game we love today . Reverend Henry Corbett (Chaplain to Everton Football Club) In the churchyard of Shepley Methodist Church in Yorkshire there is a gravestone which reads: “In Memory of the Rev Ben Swift Chambers who set the ball rolling for the birth of Everton and Liverpool Football Clubs.” Why was a Methodist minister starting a football team? The Reverend Ben Chambers had come to the Everton district of Liverpool in 1877 and had started a cricket team in the summer and wanted to keep sporting activity going through the winter. Why? Because…
