Tinpot! New book celebrates Liverpool's and Everton's forgotten triumphs
Tinpot is the story of football's lost tournaments: the strange and forgotten competitions that sparked into life before disappearing forever. The FA Cup and Football League are the oldest competitions of their kind in the world. They are the survivors - the bright ideas that quickly caught on. Yet, behind these successes lie countless failed experiments. But they still have their stories to tell.
Featuring over 40 forgotten football tournaments, Tinpot visits the curious world where:
- Liverpool became champions of Britain after beating Scottish champions Celtic in a showdown in Dubai
- The Reds thrashed Everton 7-2 over two legs to win the only ever Screen Sport Super Cup, with Ian Rush scoring 5 of the goals
- Liverpool beat Sunderland to win the Football League 100th Championship Challenge, a game held to celebrate the Football League title being contested for the 100th time
- Everton beat Bayern Munich in a match that formed part of the Football League's Centenary celebrations. An oddity, not least because English clubs were banned from competing in European competitions at the time
- The Toffees twice reached the Full Members' Cup final at Wembley, only to fall at the final hurdle
- Manchester City contested a Wembley final against Chelsea only 24 hours after playing a top-flight derby at Old Trafford
- Bobby Moore lined up alongside Pelé to captain a USA international side against England
- Arsenal, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and the rest of England’s top clubs sent their best players to compete in indoor six-a-side tournaments
- Swindon Town beat Juventus at home and away as they marched to an unlikely Anglo-Italian Cup triumph
- Watford became the first club to lose twice in the FA Cup in the same season
- A Tranmere Rovers goalkeeper conceded six goals but was still given the man of the match award
- Claudio Ranieri brought his star-studded Fiorentina side to the Potteries, but they couldn’t do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke
- England won a trophy for once, and it wasn’t even 1966: football really did come home!