New Everton Stadium - Hill Dickinson Stadium

[PhilM]

My seat is in 245 Upper North stand and when we are exiting the stadium we merge with the away fans. I have got to admit its not a great idea as trouble could easily kick off. Against Leeds on the way out I was minding my own business and a Leeds fan growled at me to move away as I was too close to him, my response was why mate will I catch something. I realise it was not the best reply but I was lucky that the lady he was with and a few other fans around us all laughed, which lightened the mood. I am convinced it will happen and hopefully not Monday night !!

I really would not be surprised if United are kept in the ground for some time after the game, to let the majority of Everton fans to get away.

 

[LinekersLegs]

 

[Rich1878]

Just hope none of them get pinched again by some bad scruffs

 

[FrenchDarrenBent]

I'll believe it when I buy a foot long hot dog in it.

How did your footlong hot dog taste btw?

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Skimmed this.

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2026/february/22/new-president-of-business-operations-writes-to-evertonians/

Prices are going up, then.

 

[Moomin]

These were full European tours announced in February, though i'm not quite sure what your point was going to be if they had been London shows only, why would that be an acceptable anomaly to announce later but Liverpool wouldn't be?? So it's evidently not "very late in the day" for announcements.....I don't know what else to say to you!

Is it now very late in the day?

 

[Bedfordblue]

Skimmed this.

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2026/february/22/new-president-of-business-operations-writes-to-evertonians/

Prices are going up, then.

Not really sure why anyone at the club thinks fans would want to hear from him. Didn’t even know (or care) he’d been appointed or the role existed.

Any guff about commercial revenues etc should and i expect will be coming from Anus Kinnear (he strikes me as someone who will be front and centre of any good news stories), anything about football performance and transfers via him and / or Moyes.

Anyone else, who cares surely?

 

[NathDogg]

Not really sure why anyone at the club thinks fans would want to hear from him. Didn’t even know (or care) he’d been appointed or the role existed.

Any guff about commercial revenues etc should and i expect will be coming from Anus Kinnear (he strikes me as someone who will be front and centre of any good news stories), anything about football performance and transfers via him and / or Moyes.

Anyone else, who cares surely?

This is beautiful btw

 

[summerisle]

Skimmed this.

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2026/february/22/new-president-of-business-operations-writes-to-evertonians/

Prices are going up, then.

Better be good.

'Our branding project is also ongoing as we work to place an even stronger Everton stamp on the stadium and make it feel even more like home.'

 

[Seathestars]

Skimmed this.

https://www.evertonfc.com/news/2026/february/22/new-president-of-business-operations-writes-to-evertonians/

Prices are going up, then.

President

 

[SingBlue]

Using a ‘machine’ to cross reference / recognize features from an existing data set is in itself artificial intelligence no?

What is LFR? | Scottish Police Authority

Facial Recognition technology uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to identify individuals in a digital image (such as a video or photo). This technology relies upon an algorithm which is trained to detect what a face is, and will then be trained to recognise faces and to distinguish one facial image from another. It does so by measuring distinguishable features of an individual’s face. This creates a unique code, known as a ‘face print’ or ‘biometric template’ from a photo or video. Live Facial Recognition (LFR) uses this technology to assess real-time, live video footage of crowds who are passing a camera and automatically compares the images of those in the crowd against a database of people on a predetermined database of images, known as a watchlist.


Forces tend not to lean too heavily into mentioning AI in relation to LFR maybe because:

‘Under the AI Act in Europe, authorities’ use of live facial recognition is generally prohibited and limited only to exceptional circumstances, such as preventing an imminent terror attack, where safeguards apply such as a clear legal basis in national law and judicial authorisation.’

High Court to Hear Landmark Legal Challenge Against Police Live Facial Recognition — Big Brother Watch

HIGH COURT TO HEAR LANDMARK LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST POLICE LIVE FACIAL RECOGNITION The case, brought by a victim of police facial recognition misidentification Shaun Thompson and Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo, will be heard in the High Court on 27th and 28th January 2026 The challenge...

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk

Cheers for the reply. I want to avoid the risk of entering "two bald men arguing about a comb" territory....

I don't know your background Sir, and this is just "my view". AI has for the last 5 years been hype, and investment-wise a bubble. In my opinion.

A lot of technology that we were already using (and some of this goes back a long way) pre-dates AI. But is now badged as AI. What does AI do? It allows us to do a lot more analysis and presentation, more quickly. For Facial Rec the software (which in our case was Ruby on Rails) linked with multiple hardware and data sources - a camera system called shutterbug, and a docu-store system for facial system (clarify this was not LFR - the "L" wasn't there - but the principal remains).

In my view... AI has a huge role to play in the future. But I have to object when it starts re-writing history.
(Full disclosure, I'm on the board of a UK AI company)

 

[davek]

A former managing director of British Gas becomes Everton President of Business Operations.

Nothing to worry about there then concerning prices going up.

 

[Vaughan]

watching the spurs game here one of my minor gripes is how you can barely see any of the fans in the south stand from the tv angle when we score

I’m not sure if its cos of the steepness of the stand, or because of the accessibility section (not bemoaning this) but its a shame only the first few rows seem to be visible when we score that end

 

[LABlue2]

watching the spurs game here one of my minor gripes is how you can barely see any of the fans in the south stand from the tv angle when we score

I’m not sure if its cos of the steepness of the stand, or because of the accessibility section (not bemoaning this) but its a shame only the first few rows seem to be visible when we score that end

It looks very poor… like scoring into a sea of concrete with some sprinkling of fans

Compare it vs. Goodison:

 

[Vaughan]

It looks very poor… like scoring into a sea of concrete with some sprinkling of fans

Compare it vs. Goodison:

yet it takes longer to get out the stand at bmd despite having more exits?