Tom Hughes
Player Valuation: £20m
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I really like the new stadium too, but it's perhaps a little telling that some still feel the need to denigrate Goodison Park, to somehow substantiate or supplement their appreciation of its replacement. I find that both strange and entirely misplaced tbh.
Of course any modern stadium is generally a major functional improvement on one with stands aged 100, 87, 55 and 32yrs old, especially one that has had nothing meaningful spent on it for decades..... but surely that should go without saying, and is the bare minimum expectation, especially after an £800m investment?
Yes, we only got 5 wins there last season.... but 8 league titles, 5 FA cups and comfortably more top flight seasons/games than any other ground, and acknowledgement for being the finest club stadium in the country for the vast majority of its history should command more respect.
Like a morgue? We've been on the verge of relegation and financial collapse for years, that's what happens when a club is woefully mismanaged and run into the ground for decades....... ironically, including the gross neglect of one of the most historic stadiums in world football.
As for metrics, Goodison Park, for all its obvious failings had much greater intimacy, and despite never being designed with acoustics in mind, I don't think I can remember it being anything but the proverbial atmospheric bearpit in the days with over 50k inside, moreso again with 60k+, with no kop or blue wall to be seen, but a Goodison Roar that could wake half the residents of the cemetary over the road.
I really like the new stadium too, but it's perhaps a little telling that some still feel the need to denigrate Goodison Park, to somehow substantiate or supplement their appreciation of its replacement. I find that both strange and entirely misplaced tbh.
Of course any modern stadium is generally a major functional improvement on one with stands aged 100, 87, 55 and 32yrs old, especially one that has had nothing meaningful spent on it for decades..... but surely that should go without saying, and is the bare minimum expectation, especially after an £800m investment?
Yes, we only got 5 wins there last season.... but 8 league titles, 5 FA cups and comfortably more top flight seasons/games than any other ground, and acknowledgement for being the finest club stadium in the country for the vast majority of its history should command more respect.
Like a morgue? We've been on the verge of relegation and financial collapse for years, that's what happens when a club is woefully mismanaged and run into the ground for decades....... ironically, including the gross neglect of one of the most historic stadiums in world football.
As for metrics, Goodison Park, for all its obvious failings had much greater intimacy, and despite never being designed with acoustics in mind, I don't think I can remember it being anything but the proverbial atmospheric bearpit in the days with over 50k inside, moreso again with 60k+, with no kop or blue wall to be seen, but a Goodison Roar that could wake half the residents of the cemetary over the road.
