I've been trying to work out how to deal with it if Spuds win.
I think it's a) feeling relief that we no longer have to hope their fruitless run continues (which while amusing does have a certain stress factor) and b) if they're going to do it, to do so in a year when they're so obviously shite must take something away from it, even for their own deluded fans
Everton 2-0 up against Southampton in the last match to be played at Goodison Park (by the men’s team anyhow)
Actually I have to admit I found it interesting that the ground will remain open for the women’s team.
In that whilst we couldn’t demolish Highbury because it was a grade 2 listed building, we did sell it off to become luxury flats (either that or becoming a supermarket seems to be the fate of the old football grounds).
But, Everton who have been in a bit of financial woe for some time, obviously think that they will generate more money from keeping the ground open for women’s football than they would selling it to property developers. This is not to say they are wrong of course…personally I think the ground is a toilet…I’ve been there twice and I genuinely believe there are better restroom facilities in places in the third world plus you have obstructing pillars everywhere.
Highbury at least we moved because of the ground capacity, the stadium itself was a thing of beauty.
Well it's comparing a slagheap in Liverpool against prime real estate in North London
Also women's football wasn't anywhere nearly so much a thing when we moved
Been to Goodison Park once before and I definitely can’t remember a stadium worse than that. The Hawthorns is probably a close 2nd.
Something quite charming about these grounds from a bygone era though.
The Boleyn Ground got a facelift that Goodison Park never got before West Ham moved to Stratford. But I went there in the 1990s and the place was an utter shit hole…the stalls looked and smelt like Pony stablesOriginally Posted by Marc Overmars
One of my favourite old grounds was Layer Road (Colchester United), one of the stands resembled an actual Chicken Coop. I don’t remember if there was any seats in the ground but it was mainly all terracing.
I think the worst I went to was the old Chelsea ground when they had the race track around it, you needed binoculars to see anything
That said I've also been downstairs at the new one and the roof above was so low it felt really claustrophobic
also went to the old Shite Hart Lane and it was so steep it gave me a mild form of vertigo - plus it was spuds ofc so that gets extra 'shite' points...
This is true (the bit about women’s football being bigger now than it was when we moved) and that’s kind of the point I was making, that actually as a revenue driver it appears that its seen as more profitable to keep the ground for women’s football than to sell it for real estate.
but again it depends on where that real estate is, I'm willing to bet they still wouldn't do it with Arsenal now
Forest keep themselves just about in the hunt for champions league football with a goal at West Ham
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The facades for the East and West stands looked nice but the facilities were awful and we also had the pillar issue.
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