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Liverpool's lost football stadium mystery finally solved

The mystery surrounding a long-lost football stadium - once home to a Victorian-era club believed to have gambled its entire fortunes on one shot at glory - has finally been solved.

While Liverpool FC and Everton are famous the world over, the city of Liverpool used to have two other professional football clubs.

Very little is known about either the original Bootle FC, dating back to 1879, or Liverpool Caledonian AFC.

The Callies - named in honour of the thriving city's Scottish population - lit up football with a "short but bright flame", according to one historian, before being extinguished just before Christmas 1892 after barely a year in existence.