Nostalgia Sunday and special feelings in Goodison Park, The old English stadium with more played games, romantic reference in its history, known as the 'Grand Old Lady' of British football. When the players of the Everton jump to the grass to face the Southampton They will do it that is the day of their final farewell in the Premier League About the grass of the historic enclosure of Liverpoolon the other side of Anfield, crossing Stanley Park. The 'blues' move, starting next season, to their new and modern Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium, at the springs of the city. The news is that the emblematic field of Mersyside will not collapse. He will continue to house football, to give the women's team a great opportunity for growth and social roots.
As one of the English teams of the Premier League, the Everton Football Club also wants to be a pioneer in a decision that until now was not precedents: to give his female team, Everton Women, the fixed headquarters of a great stadium. Goodison Park The excavators will be saved and being demolished and the solemn vision of the field from County Road, will remain well visible, to now become the first great stadium in the country of the Barclays Women's Super League. In addition, the club will continue to support the Walton neighborhood, with help programs to the 10,000 residents of the so -called 'Blue Mile', one of the areas with the most unemployment and poverty, as a sign of commitment to its community.
This is how Everton Stadium looks, which will be the new house of the 'Toffee'
The new owner of the 'Toffee', the American And Friedkinalso owner of AS Roma, a new era begins in which he intends to inject many changes in the structure and mode of operation of the club, too ankylose in the past. They want to return it to the premier elite and recover the hard rivalry with Liverpool for the titles. In the transit to the new stadium, Friedkin and the new minority shareholders see a great economic opportunity for the 'toffee' to recover their strength, lost during the critical stage of the Iranian businessman Farhad Moshiri, until he accessed the final sale of the club.
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Economic opportunity
With the transfer to the new stadium, they see the opportunity to explode the exteriors of Bramley-More Dock, in the Vauxall district, to raise a large commercial area of stores, leisure and restaurants, which helps the potentiation of the maritime zone for the city and the relaunch of the club. In addition, with its change of headquarters, the club is going to take a relevant step towards modernity, passing to almost 53,000 spectators, and being able to be at the level of the 'Big Six' clubs.
The new stadium has cost 750 million pounds and is built on what was a desolate industrial wasteland on the docks of Liverpool Bay. But it has been taken into account that the new field also reflects the agrerrious pedigree of the Everton. The area played a fundamental role in coal trade in England for almost 140 years, hence all the inhabitants of Liverpoolwhether 'reds' or 'blues', feel for it a special attachment. Now they can also enjoy a regeneration of the seabet, with the links of their past and that has been qualified as “the most shocking and ambitious in Liverpool since the beginning of the 20th century.”
‘The Blue Wall’
The most impressive part of the new stadium is the southern gallery, where the 'Blue Wall (the blue wall) of animation will be located. It has straight stands in the corners and a slope with capacity for 14,000 followers, the most inclined in Europe. There the Everton will have the strength of its younger supporters to be a stadium with a soul, since it has been designed to amplify the rumble of the songs. The views of the sea are magnificent and from the back of the southern gallery you can enjoy an impressive panoramic view of the city horizon.
The match against the descended Southampton will thus mark the farewell to 133 years of history in a dark and humid field on the cold nights of Liverpool, but which brings together all the experiences of British football since the Victorian time. Its peculiarity is that it is the only field with an annexed church and the club has always avoided playing morning games on Sunday, to allow services in St. Luke The Evangelist, an Anglican Church 124 years old. There, very close, one of the slogans that reflects the humility of the Walton neighborhood and the 'Blue' community is written:
In his farewell to Goodisonthere will be many moments for nostalgia and the memory of better times, such as Bill 'dixie' dean's goals, considered one of Everton's front, immortalized in a statue south of the stadium, in Spellow Lane. Or that Everton of the 80s with Howard Kendall, who won the FA Cup of 84 and the League of 85, and that embellished his fans. They will also remember the party that was a world record for assistance for a women's party, which remained for 98 years, which reconnects Everton with the idea that will make sense of the Goodison, from now on. But the social reality and current needs of the club inevitably move to accept all changes.
Two years ago, the Evertonwith the accounts in red, he avoided, at the limit, the descent, which he has not suffered since 1951. The 'toffee' have not finished in the upper half of the Premier League since 2019 and have not played in Europe in a decade. Now, again under the direction of the Scottish David Moyes, they plan their future with great enthusiasm. They look in the mirror of their past as a sleeping giant, and dream, hopeful, who is now going to wake up.
