It's been almost a century since Littlewoods Football Pools officially began and hundreds of employees made "friends for life."
The Liverpool ECHO recently took a look back at Littlewoods' Football Pools, speaking to former workers Kathleen and Angie about their memories from years gone by. Before the National Lottery, the most popular way for people to try and win a fortune was to play the Football Pools - the country's oldest football betting game that was born in Liverpool.
Beginning in 1923, the Football Pools offered people a chance to win large sums of money by predicting the outcome of matches - and many will remember the teatime ritual of listening to the football scores and marking off score draws on coupons in the hope of getting a line of crosses next to the right games. Loved by the nation, Sir John Moores was one of the trio who founded the company, with Littlewoods being the first to sell the pools.
