2 weeks Ago By [email protected] (Chris Beesley)
Everton’s impending move to their new stadium links in with the lyrics of their fans’ old terrace chant, “On the banks of the royal blue Mersey.” And the prominent position of the club’s future home has been brought into focus by some incredible photographs taken from the river’s world-famous ferry. Everton are currently playing their final season at Goodison Park, the first purpose-built football ground in England, where they have been based since 1892.
After 135 years in Walton – an area where the club are determined to maintain community links with a series of buildings and schemes remaining after the team relocate, including the Goodison Park Legacy Project – the Blues are making the two-mile journey to Vauxhall with a switch to the 52,888 capacity stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock for the start of the 2025/26 campaign. I was told I would never walk again after life-changing accident - now I will bring joy to Everton Everton teen sensation making big impact in training as Seamus Coleman exchange explained Everton missed out on a previous opportunity to move to the Mersey waterfront a couple of decades ago when they had the chance to build a stadium with a retractable roof at King’s Dock, which became the location of Liverpool Arena. And before the switch to Bramley-Moore Dock was mooted, there were controversial plans to go beyond the city boundaries with ‘Destination Kirkby’.
However, Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, a lifelong Evertonian, believes the Blues have got the location and design correct in the end. Speaking to the ECHO last year , he said: “It will be the most iconic ground in English football. I’m absolutely certain about that.
“I’ve been down and had a look. It will be the most talked-about ground, I’m certain. “At Everton we were first with so many things but sometimes when you’re first you get trapped with the old infrastructure so Goodison became outdated but by going last with a new stadium I think we’ve looked at all the other ones that haven’t worked brilliantly.
“Because we’re going last to a new stadium, whereas everyone more or less everybody else has pretty much gone before us, and I think the way this ground has been designed with that dominant home end with an intimidating location right on the banks of the royal blue Mersey, I think we will actually benefit from coming last to a new stadium. “I think the early ones lack atmosphere because they’re not built as tight. In some ways it’s like life coming full circle for me as we were first with Goodison but we’re now coming through this period and will get the benefits of a modern ground that will be the most iconic and superior ground in English football going forward.
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