Next Monday, February 13, Liverpool and Everton will face each other at Anfield for the match corresponding to day 23 of the Premier League. One of the matches with the most rivalry in the English championship. This game comes with a Liverpool that is going through a bad moment against an Everton that is in the relegation zone with 18 points in the table.
The Merseyside derby is one of the longest running in the top flight of English football without interruption, having been played since the 1962/63 season. But where does the rivalry between the two teams come from?
In the early years of Everton’s history, the managers were members of the UK Liberal Party, associated with the National Temperance Federation, while the chairman belonged to the Conservative Party and was also a brewer with business interests contrary to those of the NTF. . Liverpool was founded by a split between Everton Protestants over an argument over beer.
Politicians in the city of Liverpool eyed both clubs as a chance to run for mayor. Before the 1982 political split, Everton’s affairs were embroiled in local political dynamics: the split between Liberals and Conservatives and between the teetotaler movement and the interests of the brewing industry.
In the Everton board of directors, the controversy arose between the devotees of an autocratic ownership of the club’s property and the supporters of the creation of a more democratic structure to bridge sociopolitical differences.
Thus were the beginnings of the derby known as the “Friendly Derby or Merseyside Derby”. Next Monday we will see a new confrontation between Liverpool and Everton, in one of the most storied derbies in the Premier League.
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