The following article was published on 4th May 1885 in the Liverpool Mercury, digitised by the British Library in 2010.

The report concerns an experimental 4 a side tournament with Southport defeating Bootle by 1 goal to nil.

The following article was found in The Lancaster Gazette and General Advertiser for Lancashire, Westmorland, and Yorkshire (Lancaster, England) and was published on Saturday, December 29, 1883.