Everton are getting ready to move into their new £800million stadium at the end of the season and will stage the second of three test events on Sunday as their Under-21s play Bolton Wanderer’s B-team
Less than a mile from Everton’s new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is the landing stage where millions of people departed Liverpool to chase their dreams in the New World. The hope, at least for those who are of a Blue persuasion in a city only divided along lines of football loyalty, is that the latest 55,888-capacity home of Merseyside’s original club will become a place where ambitions and aspirations can be realised.
Everton will depart Goodison Park after 133 years at the end of the season, although the storied old ground just a five-minute walk away from their first base at Anfield, will continue to be used by the club for the foreseeable future.
Their “new gaff” on the city’s unmistakable waterfront has already been dubbed ‘the Fourth Grace’ because of its proximity to the Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building.
Everton Stadium is the first famous structure that passengers see when their ferries or luxury liners arrive in the mouth of the Mersey from the…
