224:. One way in which it attracted players, in an era in which professionalism was banned, was for the club's backers to provide employment; many of the players brought in to play for Stanley worked at the United Grain Elevating Company in Bootle. Certainly by 1886 the club had enough members to field three teams on the same day; a measure of the times is that in that era the third team was good enough to face
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The lack of support the club was attracting was demonstrated by the attendance at the final. Three weeks before, 3,000 people saw Bootle play a friendly against
Halliwell; however only 500 saw Bootle play Stanley in the final, at the athletic grounds in Fairfield. Bootle took the lead in the first
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in 1891–92, but only won once in 14 matches, and left the league at the end of the season, instead joining the
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The club suffered a curious incident shortly before the final when the club's goalkeeper, M'Allum (a Scots import), attacked an opponent (George) during a match, to such an extent that he was prosecuted before magistrates, and fined £1 plus costs. It was a particularly ill-judged action given the
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