The game at Everton’s Goodison Park Stadium was, for football fans in the north-west of England, the highlight of the sporting calendar.
For weeks in advance, it was advertised on posters displayed across the region and, come the big day, no fewer than 53,000 supporters were packed into the stands — and a further 14,000 fans had to be turned away at the turnstiles from the at-capacity ground.
But this was no Premier League clash between two teams of overpaid, show-boating prima donnas.
Instead, the fixture — which took place more than a century ago, on December 27, 1920 — was between two sides made up of female factory workers.