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So what has changed?

At last, Everton are getting their big guns to voice an opinion in the media...

Everton Chairman, Sir Philip Carter has joined the frey. He has come out and said Everton will play at the Kings Dock at the start of the 2005-06 season. Carter said: "I am encouraged by what Cllr Storey has said.

"He has seen the importance of such a scheme and recognised that the city needs an arena and stadium. We must go forward with confidence. We believe that our proposal is the ideal scheme for the city of Liverpool. The city needs a major venue and a showpiece development alongside Albert Dock. As a former chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company I will be delighted to see such a development at Kings Dock.
"There will be transportation considerations but these can be resolved. I believe it would not be good for the city to have a development on Kings Dock that is only alive in the daytime. It is such an important site that it also needs to be used during the evening.

"Everton will play their home games there, but it will be much more than a football stadium. Even the arenas in Manchester can only accommodate up to 22,000 people. The proposed development by us at Kings Dock will be able to accommodate much bigger audiences for concerts. The important thing is that the city needs a development that sends out a statement to everyone.
Sir Philip Carter (16/05/01)

Do EFC now believe it is no longer important for Liverpool to have a 'statement' to send out to everyone? That statement is now to come from Kirkby?
Eddy Elton, Liverpool Posted 07/08/2007 at 20:36:31

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Tony Marsh
1 Posted 07/08/2007 at 21:48:07

Eddy as you well know our current chairman blew our chance of being a major player by fucking up the King Dock deal.I will never forgie him for that and the mess he made of it along with all the lies he told makes me sick.I have to laugh when I read the posts of all these yes men on TW quite prepared to follow BK Kirkby with only a con mans word and a computer generated graphic to go on.How dumb can some people be?

Anthony Newell
2 Posted 07/08/2007 at 22:23:12

I seem to recall Kenwright on the radio around the time assuring the fans that we would be going to Kings Dock, no question. Christ, Tony Blair even wrote a letter to the club congratulating it on it’s anniversary and future move there. Then it all goes fuck pear shaped and Kenwright is nowhere to be seen. Kenwright, the man who said he would not be the chairman to take us out of Liverpool, Kenwright the man who is working 24/7, Kenwright with his Fantasy fucking Fortress Fund, Kenwright with his his transfer promises. Kenwright the man to give the fans a ballot so if that goes the same way to, he can turn round and say "well i gave the fans the vote". Tosser

Phil Bellis
3 Posted 08/08/2007 at 00:46:28

For all you paranoid, untrusting, suspicious, grassy knoll bastards...’The Kings Dock money is ring-fenced’. Ignore the lessons of History at your peril. Q.E.D