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Perhaps I am just being over sensitive here but the New Anfield has been selected for one of the World Cup stadiums, even though it hasn't even been designed yet, whilst the general opinion of their neighbours; Everton, is that they have no hope of getting a new stadia off the ground.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/8414235.stm
DK is mentioned as a missed oppertuntity and Milton Keynes and Plymouth are give the opportunity.
The Club's Board and PR department are useless. Getting WC Football to the revamped Goodison (or new ground) should be a priority to showcase the club.
I despair.
Liam Reilly, Posted 16/12/2009 at 12:41:55
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We are hardly one of the top stadiums in the country or do we have any plans to build one...
It’s seems like sense to me.
The only thing Goodison would be used for is training facilities for one of the visiting teams.
Can’t believe anyone would be insulted by the decision.
Some people think we’ve a god given right to be at the top of the football heirarchy..We don’t.
However, I think it would’ve been a different story if we’d been sittin in the Kings dock from next season....
The anger seems to be misplaced.
Several years ago, the KD project was atrociously lost, how many times do the club think that its history of failure to deliver a new stadium has to repeat itself before authorities stop taking it seriously? — I posted this on the OS as a response to Elstone’s whinge, what’s the bet it doesn’t appear?
I might also add that LFC don’t actually think that Anfield is currently good enough and there is no guarantee that New Anfield is goinf to happen either.
One of the factors taken into consideration by FIFA is the surrounds of the stadium for pre-match and post-matcc entertaining of visitors and yet Anfield is in a much worse location than Goodison with numerous vacant boarded up houses around it. I see that local kids like setting fire to these houses for ’entertainment’ to drag out the hard pressed Fire Brigade. Maybe FIFA think they will have burnt the surrounding area down in the next 9 years!
It is very interesting that the person from Kirkby who was one of the most vociferous against the move to Kirkby has not appeared for some months now... a founder member of KEIOC I believe. Finally the comments made by Warren Bradley regarding the Kirkby Stadium are quite interesting.
They’ve fucked up two new grounds, one because they couldn’t raise the money even though Bill Kenwright said the money was "ring fenced" and one because it wasn’t "deliverable", even though they claimed it was... errrm, "deliverable" .
Also, according to Mr Lineker on MOTD the Fifa dude chose which cities from the list of however many get chosen to represent the finals... goodbye Bristol, Plymouth and MK.
Hmmm...
Well they’re spot on with that assesment then, at least while BK is still here.
If you bothered to read the fucking article, I never said that Goodison is fit for showcasing any WC Football, but assuming that it could be redeveloped, then why shouldn’t it have the same chance as a re-developed Anfield or the new Stanley Park stadium, that is yet to be designed?
The decision is clearly a dismissal of the club's ability to provide a new or re-developed stadium, yet our neighbours with all their debt are assured of a place with their current or perceived ground.
The FA have to provide a number of grounds using all ends of the country and the NW has an abundance of big grounds.... It's a Fifa rule that the whole country has to have games, that's why Plymouth and Milton Keynes are in there
We have a lot more things to worry about than this surely...
Liam — Kings Dock, Kirkby — they are right to dismiss us, because we couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery.
It was a foregone conclusion that Goodison would be one of the venues for the WC of 66 as it was the best club ground in the country by a mile and it should have held the England semi-final instead of the WC semi-final.
The other seven grounds used were Wembley, White City, Ayrsome Park, Villa Park, Old Trafford, Hillsborough and Roker Park. Interesting fact that of those seven (apart from demolished White City) only Goodison has stagnated; Wembley, M/boro, Sunderland new grounds OT and VP massive improvements, Hillsborough current capacity of 40,000 to have £25 million pound upgrade for 2018...
It really brings home to anyone who watched wide eyed from the Gladwys St all those years ago how low we have sunk; no plans, no ambition, left miles behind by our competitors. The crocodile tears of Mr Elstone only make it harder to bear.
1996 Euros should have been a wake up call for Everton, but 14 years later, absolutely nothing has been addressed.
Oh suuuuure, "in a perfect world" etc blah, but it... isn’t. It’s Bill world, Sky World, Fifa World, Premier World. All planets imo morally bankrupt, greedy and stupid.
And as for Elstone - fucking pitiful! ("hold on now - he’s really ’approachable!’") Fact: Mr Smokescreen should shut his whining hole and accept that he backed a loser with DK.
He’s like some annoying twat moaning he AAAAAAALMOST had a treble up but... er... didn’t coz all three horses went down ("TUT! The tipsters were SO sure they’d win").
There is an expression we’re all familiar with - ’taking your eye off the ball’
For me, getting all worked up about a World Cup that MIGHT take place in ’Ing-er-lund’ EIGHT years from now is doing just that.
A decent performance by the kids tonight and three points against Birmingham on Sun will make me happy.
I'm not disagreeing with you, Brian. Unfortunately that seems to portray the general perception of the Club externally.
As games are beamed live around the world from Anfield, United & City, Spurs and Arsenal, I think this decison will go a long way to affirming there is only one major club in Liverpool.
Even if it is a remote possibility, then the idea shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.
Was no-one else in the least bit proud to see the esteem that Goodison was held in in the 60s and wouldn’t you like to see the the likes again?
Agent Johnson couldn’t have done more damage to this club than the current custodians.
That will probably be bye bye to Plymouth, Milton Keynes and Bristol or Nottingham
It's only been done to get the southwest onto the FA’s side.
Now where have I heard that before?
And standing with who?
Chelsea Sky fans?
It’s funny, I never heard anything about Goodison, in the 60’s, 70’s or 80’s and It was a BIGGER ’shithole’ then than now.
It is supporters that have changed.
Basically, I still see Goodison the way I always have.
Somewhere we play once every two weeks for 90 mins (for just 9 months of the year).
If the pitch is ok and I can have a slash if I really need one, that’s me happy.
Nobody is being asked to live there.
I saw a clip of Boro last night.
Huge empty spaces in their state-of-the-art ground and ’Championship’ football - desperate, soulless, awful.
Personally, I’d be happy to stay where we are with Goodison getting the occasional lick of paint.
I don’t want to move either - front row just to the right of the halfway line in the top balcony - no obstructed views for me! However when you see the likes of the new Wembley and then go to Goodison they are like chalk and cheese.The Cup Final showed just what a football stadium is meant to be these days if you want flagship events like the world cup held at your ground. I’m not saying I want the Ivory coast playing New Zealand at our shiny new stadium but I’d like the opportunity to tell FIFA to do one as we are not interested.
I remember I used to say rather smugly to any football fan that I had the best seat in the house in the best ground in the country. Thats only half true now.
Little things like hosting a world cup semi final is part of Goodisons proud history and subsequently Everton’s. It’s just something else that under the stewardship of the current board is being let slip.
Nostalgic yep, but fuck it, I love the place.
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1 Posted 16/12/2009 at 21:49:42
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They missed out on Euro 96 by not developing Goodison properly, complacently thinking Goodison would get the nod and they have done it again.
Fuck the lot of them!