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Dalglish puts out ground-share feelers

September 28, 2010
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Dalglish puts out ground-share feelers

Any negotiation on a subject as sensitive as an Everton/Liverpool ground share needs to be broached carefully and with sensitivity. Views amongst supporters of both clubs are deeply entrenched and a majority of Blues and Reds are probably against the idea. The commercial logic is, as they say, a no-brainer, but gaining broad-based acceptance of the concept is quite another matter. It is therefore highly significant that the first feelers in this latest round have come from Anfield and in the person of Kenny Dalglish, a man still employed by the club, and a man universally admired and respected by the Red half of the City. The view from the top at Goodison has...

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Can we stomach a groundshare with Liverpool?

June 25, 2009
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Can we stomach a groundshare with Liverpool?

This post was originally written for the Times Fanzine Fanzone Blog. Moving home was always going to be an extremely testy subject. The very idea of it swills around our mouths until we spit it out like particularly disgusted wine-tasters. It looks like we have three options with regards to our footballing home. First option, which should Kirkby go belly up will become even more viable, is to stay at Goodison, attempting to remodel our beautiful and historic stadium. For those who hate change (and as an Evertonian, force-fed past glory but starved of modern day success, how can we be anything BUT traditionalists) this looks like the least...

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Kirkby Stadium Called In; What Now?….

August 6, 2008
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Latest news fresh from the Official Everton site is that Kirkby has been called in. Quite what this means for our transfer fund, which EFC have claimed – until they are blue in the face – won’t be affected one jot by any failed stadium remains to be seen. The club said: We are disappointed by the decision. Having spent more than two years working diligently on a project which would not only provide Everton Football Club with a new home but also regenerate Kirkby, we had hoped to avoid a Government call-in. It never rains but it pours…

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