Bramley-Moore Dock basin cleared and sealed

After a detailed consultation period, a team of wildlife experts recommended that the rats should be integrated into an area which already has a large thriving population of similar vermin

Thankfully the rats will not have to move too far, as the wildlife experts have found that the largest population of vermin in Western Europe is actually just a few miles away at Anfield Road.

I’ve copied and pasted your quote and sent it to them 😀😀

Alan @ 1; that only applies to foundations in sand. The whole area...including the actual river sits on a shelf of, iirc, Butlerite Sandstone, which extends from Red Rocks by the Dee, Thurstson Hill, Rock Ferry is named for it all the way to Woolton quarry and beyond.

Just look at the cuttings from Edge Hill (where, for some reason, it is always best to get off, or so I was told when I was young, which mystified me at the time) into Lime Street, half the old city was made from it - fear not; piles (titter ye not) concrete piles will be anchored to that base.

I didn't mention it in my post, but on my way to Lime Street Tuesday morning at some ridiculously early hour, as I approached with St John's to the left, Wetherspoons to the right (no – too early) and the Crown in front of me, there were rats everywhere scampering around. Cocky and confident little shits too. Not phased by me at all.

Sorry. Random one, but you reminded me!!!

The walk from town is about 20 minutes but parking places in town on a Saturday are limited and expensive, also in autumn and winter with rain it wouldn't be a pleasant experience having to walk 20 minutes to and from the ground.

But in reality, at any stadium, there is inevitable congestion prior to and after the event. Controlled queues to get to the train platform at Wembley or Brighton. Likewise to get to the very efficient Tram system in Gelsenkirchen when I go to watch Schalke. Traffic jams on Queens Drive after a match at Goodison. You can't really get away from it.

But, to my point about how Tottenham have approached it. They have provided first class drinking and eating facilities in the stadium to encourage people to go earlier, leave later and arrive / depart at different times. No rush by the majority of the crowd to get in for Z-Cars after the final pint on County Road all at the same time. No bomb-burst of everyone trying to get away at the same time at the end.

When I got a tour of the Tottenham stadium on a business meeting the week before their first match there, the host told me, the idea was to totally change the matchday experience. And obviously, generate more direct match day revenue.

Keep all the revenue within the club, they key is to provide first class facilities and people will go, stay there and spend there money there.

I would much rather do that than have beer spilled all over me in a sardine can pub in county road while I queue for 10mins for a crap pint.

I actually think the fan park at Goodison is an awesome idea although they are attempting a great idea without the space and facility to do it.

Providing places to eat will also encourage families to attend as they can finish watching the game and walk out and go for a meal afterwards.

This is the future of leisure and hospitality. For those who wish to just drive there and drive home immediately afterwards then that option remains.

I would like to see some real public transport infrastructure and it does need its own rail station.

I don't think they have set up anything as far as l know. Surely we would have heard. Controlling traffic should be high consideration. Or are we all going to rely on public transport or sitting in traffic for half an hour waiting to get out? Sandhills is going to be crazy.

He was a Belfast born Evertonian but only lived a few doors down, so that was his pub.

To be fair, no issues whatsoever. Good life experience for him, good people.

My Grandad was originally from the Antrim Road, close to the old Court house and Crumlin Road Prison.

Fucking hilarious.

All along, I have been deeply sceptical about the new stadium. Nothing has changed.

This is a club that can attempt to play most of the second half of a Premier League match without a forward. Do you really think they can raise £500M?

Be disappointed but don't be pathetic.

I’m a long-standing watcher of the way the club works and that’s my interpretation of what’s going on. My view has never changed. I don’t see the club being capable of organising a new ground. Everything the club do is substandard – as you saw on the pitch today.

Come on then tell us what you actually know.

The Paddington Line

Tram route up the hill, from Lime Street to the new Knowledge Quarter. With speculative extensions out to BMD in the north and Liverpool South Parkway in the south.