So Mart I look forward to history continually being made!!! I suppose newer rivals like Utd and Chelsea have taken the focus away from the Merseyside Derby!!During the move to Goodison, Everton also became a limited company, with an original issue of 500 one-pound shares. In the beginning it looked like there would be two Everton's in the city, but the FA ordered that the majority who had moved to Goodison Park would be allowed to keep the name, Everton. So Houlding and the rest who stayed at Anfield formed Liverpool FC. Liverpool's first captain was Andrew Hannah, a champion with Everton in 1891. So this split is the foundation for one of the biggest and most traditional rivalries in football. The first Merseyside derbies were played in the 1894-95 season, when Everton won the first match at Goodison, in front of a 44,000 crowd (the then league record), 3-0 and then drawing 2-2 at Anfield with a crowd of 26,000.
FYIThe creation of the Football League and Everton's success in it soon had some undesirable side effects. John Houlding had bought Anfield and he more than doubled the rent in a few years. In early 1892, the resentful Everton board, lead by George Mahon, decided to find a new ground for the club.
Mahon already had a reservation for a field in the northern part of Stanley Park, near Goodison Road, called Mere Green Field, which was described as a "howling desert". The "rebels" were determined, though; they cleared the new area and built fabulous terraces for their new home, giving it the name, Goodison Park, leaving a remnant of the club at Anfield.