Everton Stadium: ‘It’s out of this world’ – Toffees fans get first glimpse of new stadium
It might be a dark, icy Monday night, but the Evertonians hope this day means the beginning of a new future.
Everton opened its first grand new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, successfully playing under 18 against Wigan for 10,000 lucky Toffee fans Votes for friendly matches.
The club has been working for four years, with an estimated cost of more than £750 million, and the club will fully move in in the summer starting in the 2025-26 season.
The first thing you get close to the stadium along the Liverpool Pier Road is its huge size. This is definitely huge.
Goodison Park extends on three sides by Victorian terraced housing to sneak up on you. But didn’t miss this place. Huge, futuristic steel and red bricks, combining old and new.
Directly across from Bramley Moore bar is making a roaring deal, Elton John’s “I think that’s why they call it the Blues. Expectation and excitement are obvious of.
“It’s no longer in this world,” said Andy, a season ticket holder, Andy, who signed Bramley Moore next season ( Bramley-Moore).
“We can’t have a better stadium for a better stadium. Everyone is excited, young and young.
“Leaving Goodison would be a wrench, but when you see that, it would be everyone’s jealousy.”
It’s hard to imagine this was the working dock three and a half years ago. It was filled in three months and the dredger collected 480,000 cubic meters of sand on 130 round trips to and from the Irish Sea and pumped it into the dock, creating a solid foundation for the Stadium Foundation.
The 52,888 capacity ground will be the seventh largest league in the Premier League and has been selected to host the 2028 euros. Hopefully the project is expected to contribute about £1.3 billion to the local economy.
There are nods from the past everywhere. The old rails and secondary Victorian hydraulic towers have been difficult to repair. Archibald Leitch, a famous Scottish architect, is still incorporated into brickwork in four stalls in Goodison Park.
There is only one stall open for the game tonight – the steep southern stall will eventually seat 14,000 people. There is a row of food and drink racks inside. You can find standard football tickets – three flavors of pie sell. But the menu is also Korean sticky chicken and salt and pepper chicken.
What sells well is the “Toffee Donut,” which is the number of people who linger with royal blue frosting from their lips.
A huge glass window covers the entire length of the shelf, offering stunning views of the Liverpool sunshine fading behind the skyline.
“You didn’t get this view in Anfield,” said a smiling yellow jacket butler. Everyone here is excited.
As fans walk up the steps and first glimpse at their team’s new home, there is a vivid expectation and a childlike miracle.
Tom signed with his son Elliott next season, with his son Elliott. “What is Goodson’s ground-but it’s time to move.”
The first thing you notice is the steep gradient of the stand – it is as steep as the regulations, and keeps fans as close to the court as possible.
There are two huge TV screens at both ends of the ground and come with an incredibly loud PA system – you may be able to hear it on Mersey on Wirral.
Players enter the theme from the 1960s TV show Z-Cars – just like having been in Goodison for over 50 years. Nodding to the other past, wearing futuristic clothes.
Wigan’s Harrison Rimmer – a teenage Liverpool fan – has made himself a quiz question since scoring his first goal at the new stadium. He took out six fingers with six fingers, referring to the six Champions League champions at Liverpool.
Minutes later Cole Simms beat the young Latics 2-0 while Everton was punished by 16-year-old Ray Robert answer.
But tonight has nothing to do with the result, it’s about the occasion – the fans present will never forget.
“It’s really breathtaking,” said Dave, another Goodison season pass holder.
“Goodison has always been our spiritual home, but you can’t blame this. It keeps us up to date.”
