This week's Chinese Premier League "Express" schedule, in many league games, in addition to Thursday night's Manchester United at home to Arsenal is more eye-catching, Wednesday night Everton and Goodison Park home to the city's sworn enemy Liverpool "Merseyside Derby", is also a game that has attracted the attention of fans all over the Uk and even overseas. As the two armies have been competing in the top flight since 1962, the Merseyside Derby is currently the longest-running derby in Europe's top league, while the two teams are less than a kilometre apart at home and are currently the two shortest stadiums in the Premier League. As for the feud between the two armies, it mainly starts from an Anfield stadium...
Founded in 1878, Everton has been renting Anfield Stadium as its home stadium since 1884, and the owner of the stadium, He Ding, is also a member of the club's management and participates in the operation of the club. Originally, everything was fine, but a few years later the two sides disagreed over rent and even stadium ownership, and He Ding was expelled from the club in 1892, and Everton immediately stopped renting Anfield Stadium and moved to Goodison Park, not far away, as the team's home stadium. Kicked away by the club is not willing, He Ding decided to set up a new club after 15 days, and submitted an application, it did not take 3 months for the new club to be approved to be able to successfully register; at first, this new club was originally named Everton Athletic (Everton Athletic), but because it was extremely similar to the name of its own team Everton, it was easy to cause confusion and was not accepted by the FA, and finally decided to change the name to the city of Liverpool, which is the current Red Army; interestingly, after the establishment of Liverpool, From Everton, He then found Barkley as the team's first manager, and this Patchley was also Everton's first manager.
Its own geographical factors, coupled with the disputes in the early days of the founding of the association, deepened the contradictions between the two teams and gradually became a pair of eye-catching rivals in English football. Despite this, there was little violence between the fans of the two sides, and even many families had fans of both teams, and this confrontation was also known as the "Friendship Derby". After the tragedy at Hessue Stadium in 1985, the UEFA sentenced england clubs to ban them from participating in European competitions for up to five years, and Everton, who won the league championship that season, also failed to participate in the European Champions Club Cup in the following season, which made many Everton fans angry at liverpool rogue fans who were making trouble on the stadium at that time, and the relationship between the two clubs fell to a low point. However, when the 1989 Heathberg Stadium tragedy occurred, Everton fans sympathized with the victims of Liverpool fans, and united with The Reds fans, joined the Boycott to create the fact of the Sun, and repeatedly expressed their condolences and support for the Reds; by 2007, an 11-year-old Everton young fan named Jones was shot dead, liverpool invited the victim's family to the scene in a European League event, and the first broadcast of Everton's anthem at Anfield Stadium, the fans stood and applauded. In August 2012, when the report of the Heathberg Stadium tragedy was completed, a belated justice was paid to the victims, and Everton's players were accompanied by everton and Liverpool caddies wearing Everton and Liverpool before the start of the league at home to Newcastle, and the backs of those caddies were printed with "9" and "6" respectively, meaning the 96 people who died in the tragedy, and the fans stood and applauded in support.
Of course, as a nemesis, the competition on the pitch has naturally returned to fierceness. The two sides have played 238 times in all competitions, large and small, of which Liverpool have won 95 times, Everton have 67 victories, the two sides have played and played 76 times; 3 of them are cup finals, the first time was the League Cup final held in 1984, when the two sides played a 0-0 draw at Wimbley, and by the time of the rematch, Liverpool won the cup 1-0 with the help of Scotland midfielder Sauna, and successfully won the cup; in the 1986 FA Cup final, the two sides met again. Although the England national team is selecting striker Renniga to open the record for Everton, But Rushu's double score, coupled with Chuang Shidong's goal, helped Liverpool win the cup 3-1 against the opponent; in 1989, the two sides met again in the FA Cup final, Irish striker Edrich took the lead in the opening stage, but Scotland midfielder McGonaga scored a minute before the end, helped Love Wharton to a draw, and made the game into extra time, although McGonaga made another contribution in overtime, personally opened twice, But Ruchy also scored two goals in a row, and finally Liverpool beat their opponents 3-2 to successfully lift the FA Cup again. In fact, Everton's strength since the establishment of the Premier League has been much less powerful than before, mostly in the middle of the state, although the last season of the league two pairs of Liverpool remained unbeaten, the first round of home with the opponent to play a 2-2 draw, but Liverpool has a defensive center of gravity Yun Dike was injured by Befort and took an early off season, which became the main reason for the Reds' first mate decline in last season's record, and the second round Everton won 2-0 away, but this time it was more than the first win in this derby battle in 10 years, because the team beat Liverpool against the last time Speaking of October 2010, the home team won 2-0 with the help of Australian star Cahill and the current Arsenal manager Adida. Although the strength of the two sides is far apart, whenever there is a confrontation, a group of players will show more vigorous fighting spirit and competitiveness than usual, narrowing the gap between the two sides, and it seems that the first confrontation of this season will have a dragon fight.