Liverpool FC exists because Everton refused to pay higher rent in 1892

The Merseyside derby rivalry began with a bitter rent dispute, not connected the pitch. Everton near Anfield successful 1892 aft falling retired with stadium proprietor John Houlding, prompting him to make Liverpool Football Club to support the crushed occupied. More than 130 years later, that landlord quality has go the improbable root communicative of English football’s fiercest rivalries.