Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Liverpool And Everton Should Forget Their Differences And Cohabit At Stanley Park


The councillors in Kirkby may have done Liverpool as well as Everton a favour in finding fault with the Toffees’ grand designs.

A Liverpool flagship in Stanley Park remains an empty promise, holed by the collapse of the financial model of the club’s American ownership.

David Moyes is hemmed in at Everton by empty pockets in the boardroom. The club cannot afford to buy a centre-forward let alone finance a new home alone.

The time has come to rise above ancient rituals and old thinking and contemplate a ground share. Do Internazionale and AC suffer identity loss as a consequence of both calling the San Siro – one of the world’s great footballing temples – home?

Individuality is accommodated by the colonisation of separated ends. The supporters of Liverpool and Everton could draw lots then set about hanging their banners behind their respective goals.

It is no argument to point to the policy at Arsenal and Tottenham, clubs who pursued their own mad ambition with the development of new homes on adjacent sites.

As beautiful as the Emirates is and Tottenham’s emporium will be, they are absurdities in a city that has a £750 million new pin lying idle at Wembley.

Merseyside deserves a world-class facility. Stanley Park is the only place for it to go.

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