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John Turnbull Gibb – the first Irishman to score for Everton?
13
May
By Tony Onslow
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1878-1889, Articles, Latest, Players, Tony Onslow

John Turnbull Gibb – the first Irishman to score for Everton?

Official Football League records, started September 1888, appear to indicate that Wexford born Jack Kirwan was the first Irishman to score a league goal for Everton in 1898. However, on closer examination, this feat had in fact been achieved some eleven years earlier - all be it in a friendly - when the Toffees had first crossed the sea to play a game on the Emerald Isle. The player to do so was an Irish International from Belfast - John T. Gibb. Official records state the first Irishman to score a league for Everton was Jack Kirwan in a 5-5…
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Goodison Park – The New Home of Everton (1892)
08
May
By Rob Sawyer
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1890-1899, Articles, Billy Smith, Goodison, History, Latest, Members Work, Rob Sawyer

Goodison Park – The New Home of Everton (1892)

Billy Smith has been a royal blue bloodhound for many years, sniffing out historic articles about our beloved club in microfilm archives across the region. These nuggets are posted on his excellent Blue Correspondent website (bluecorrespondent.co.uk). Working chronologically, he has reached the 1962/63 season but Billy continues locate and transcribe previously hidden gems from earlier eras. One vein of high-quality content mined by Billy is Athletic News (The Athletic News and Cyclists' Journal, to give it its full title). This Manchester-based weekly newspaper, which ran from 1875 to 1931 was a keen proponent of Association Football in its early decades. Mere Green…
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