Everton Football club are moving to Kirby

vanzandt

vanzandt

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26 July 2007
Everton
That's it really.

Big enough news to not just represent something in the club section.

Personally I think it is a top move for the club.

Also the idea that it is moving out of Liverpool is rubbish, it isn't!

Kirby is in Liverpool and has a L post code, It just doesn't happen to be within the city council area nowt more than that.

Fact is if anyone went to Kirby and to a street corner and said to a load of lads that they wern't from Liverpool, they'd last about 5 seconds...

Gerrard was born in Kirby, so was Alans Stubb and tons of scousers live there.

No one says Manchester United are not a Manchester team because they are in Traford and not inner city Manchester...same goes for Everton being in Liverpool.

Fact is it is nearer to Goodision Park and the current stadium than half of the potential sites within the city of Liverpool.

Anyway from a financial point of view it has to be good for Everton and Evertonians, a decent stadium in a cut price deal near to their spiritual home.
 
Everton fans vote for Kirkby move

Everton's proposed new ground in Kirkby will hold 50,000 fans
Everton fans have voted in favour of the club's proposed move to a new stadium in Kirkby.
The club balloted more than 36,000 supporters on the move, which chief executive Keith Wyness described as "the deal of the century".

Everton vowed to abide by the outcome of the vote but 59% of the 25,761 votes returned supported the proposals.

The 50,000-seater new stadium will be financed alongside supermarket giant Tesco and the local Knowsley council.

It is part of a planned £400m redevelopment of a 32-hectare (80-acre) site.

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Great news. We are finally going to be able to compete with the big guns

sperlz

With Liverpool set to move into a new £300m stadium in Stanley Park in 2010, Everton are keen to keep up with their fierce rivals.

The new ground will be modelled on the traditional four-sided structure modelled on Cologne's World Cup stadium.

The plans caused consternation among some Everton fans as well as Liverpool Council, who were upset at the idea of the club moving outside the city boundaries.

However, the club argue that Goodison Park, the club's home of 115 years, is too old and impractical to expand while other suggested sites within the city were too small.

As they revealed the results of the vote, Everton pleaded with opposition groups to end their protests.

"We believe that now is the time for all supporters of Everton Football Club to set aside any differences of opinion and unite for the common good," said Everton's statement.

"The simple truth is, we all want the same thing - a thriving, ambitious and prosperous club away from the field of play and an attractive, competitive team on it."

But opponents of the plans have vowed to continue their fight.

Keep Everton In Our City spokesman Dave Kelly said: "The ballot has served to split the fans.

"That makes me sad as an Evertonian. There is still a long campaign ahead because public opinion in Kirkby against a football stadium is growing."

Knowsley Council are facing opposition from local residents over the prospect of a football stadium being built as part of their town centre regeneration scheme.




Brilliant news!!
 
matherto said:
Whiston Hospital isn't in Kirby
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No...but it has been quoted many, many times and I think even by Gerrards family so I guess you would have to take that up with them.

I could be guilty of reporting something that is false that has been reported as false many time I guess.

One thing for sure this whole Kirkby not in Liverpool argument is rubbish. It absolutely IS in Liverpool, just not in the city council area.

E.g

The docks are in Sefton. Are they called Liverpool docks or Sefton docks?

Was Sefton or Liverpool the biggest sea port in the world in the 1800s?

Nobody suggests that the docks are anything other than Liverpool docks or that it is the port of Liverpool, yet it is not in the liverpool city council bounderies.

Kirkby IS in Liverpool, it IS Liverpool....just not in the council of Liverpool but in Knowsley- Just as much Liverpool as the docks!

Also Everton as an area is in North Liverpool and Kirkby is in north Liverpool and is in fact nearer to Goodison than some of the sites that have been proposed that are within the Liverpool city council area.

Everton as a parish actually pre-dates the city of Liverpool anyway...but that is by-the by.

The point is we are staying in Liverpool and close to the roots of the club by remaining in the north of the city.

P.S

If you only counted Liverpool as the Liverpool city council area and didn't count the rest of Liverpool and all the L postcodes and surrounding councils, then Liverpool would be a tiny city. It would also be a very poor city and would not have had half of the city and dock areas regenerated with the money that stemmed from the wider Liverpool area.

This city council nonsense is a form of snobbery that some people from Liverpool indulge in and is pushed by some people and misrepresents the truth.

I have had people from south Liverpool who live in the bounderies of the city council say that you can't be a proper Evertonian or Liverpoodlian living in Knowsley or Sefton.

You get people effectively saying that you can't be a proper fan when you live much nearer to the ground than they do.....just mental.

P.S

And matherto....Old Traford is NOT in the manchester council area, does that mean Manchester United are not a Manchester club? The same logic applies.
 
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