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I think the initial design (and indeed one of the main motives to go to BMD) was for if we'd gotten the Commonwealth games. That would've come with a lot of additional funding. Unfortunately, that got brought forward 4 yrs due to Durban dropping...

We traded off a higher capacity with good expandability options in a poor location (Stonebridge Cross) for a lower capacity, almost zero expandability in a good but not perfect location - perfect would have been staying at Goodison, levelling the...

I got on a shuttle bus from Liverpool One bus station about 1 hr before KO, but didn't make it to the ground till about 15 mins after KO, because we were stuck in the middle lane of the Strand.... ended up getting off by the Liver Building and...

Hard to judge b Hard to judge by the test events because most of the crowd that were there had already left before the end. We were practically the last to leave and had no problems.

I'm sure over it's history Goodison has been great. That was not the point in question though.I agree over its history Goodison has been a great home for Everton. We should however not be fearing moving stadium as for the past few years it has...

Indeed, but i was in effect taking a larger sample size (all of GPs history), for greater accuracy. If I had said that EFC were financially hamstrung by building a new stadium and nearly completely collapsed.... would that have been fair...

That's same as most new Stadia worldwide, in that respect. NFL stadia are normally slightly different in proporions, with many having only token end stands, and not dedicated Kops per se. They often have large lower tiers and are cranked or...

Yes, they can get much worse..... Relegation or even multiple relegations and many years in the lower leagues, as experienced by all other clubs, would be far worse imo.

Bowl was the general generic term originally used to describe the basic US bowl type stadia that started to appear in the early 20th century. Usually oval in plan view, and often enormous in capacity. This was much later applied to the...

Yes, it is always difficult to get these large numbers of people to and (particulary) away from any stadium. That is why site choice is an essential part of the process, because creating that type of infrastructure at a poorly sited venue can be...

I think he may be referring to the recent examples of repeatedly avoiding relegation, despite generally very poor sides.... of course combined with that far longer established statistical fact that GP has hosted easily more top flight games than...

I was looking at the Everton minute books yesterday - as you do - and I noticed that right from the off when Everton moved from Anfield to Goodison the club were sending out directors to the Liverpool tram companies to petition them to feed...

I think the difference between opinions on a forum where half of the people never go the game anyway and actual match going fans differs. I know just as many season ticket holders who are gutted (but understand the reasons why) we're leaving...

I was only really responding to the notion that Goodison was a "nightmare" in terms of transportation, by referencing the last major UK study of UK stadium transport that I was familiar with, that made a direct comparison of all of the premier...

The soccer bus does need its own lane though. Otherwise it won't work. I noticed at the first 2 events that the bus did seem to have its lane coned off going back towards town and the system worked well after the match. Hiwever, it didn't for the...