Featured: Red of the Day - Tom Fairfoul

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by Chris Wood

 

Half-back Thomas was a regular in the Liverpool side in the two years that preceded the First World War.

 

He played in every one of the 38 First Division matches in 1913-14 and made a further 24 appearances the following season. Nine F.A. cup ties over the same period (including the 1914 final defeat by Burnley at Crystal Palace) brought his career total for Liverpool to 71 games.

 

His career at Anfield ended in shame, as along with three other Liverpool players (Miller, Pursell, Sheldon) and three Manchester United players, he was found guilty of fixing a game between Liverpool and United on Good Friday 1915.

 

 

Date of Birth: 16/01/15 Nationality: Scottish Postition: Half-back  Games: 71 Goals: 0 ClubHons: None Int Hons: None Other Clubs: LanarkAthletic, Patria, Kilmarnock, Third Lanark Tom FAIRFOUL 1913-15

 

 

 

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[dennis tooth]

You learn something new everyday, unless I'd just forgotten, match fixing, to think Brucie G gets all the shit some of these pre war dudes get an easy time.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Do I call him a treacherous scumbag or what?

[Bjornebye]

It was fixed in favour of the mancs so yeah you can 

[red_ostrich]

Whatever, he wore the red kit with the liver bird upon his chest-He'll always be our, a Red.

[sir roger]

Great name for a footballer.

 

Puts me in mind of my mate's dad who hasn't agreed with a single free-kick given against us since he got his season ticket in the 60's and has used the phrase ' fair fou l' on a few occasions,