How Everton's new stadium is primed to launch them into the future: The cash machine for new ownership, a million-pound pub, what will be left behind at Goodison Park and the club's plans for the hallowed turf The light illuminating the sign hanging above the door of the Winslow Hotel on Goodison Road is on the blink.
It takes only half an hour to walk from Goodison Park to Everton’s new home but it’s only when you turn right off Westminster Road by the Phoenix Hotel – with a brown tourist sign pointing to Anfield in the opposite direction – that you realise just how Liverpool perches right on the edge of the land.
Had Liverpool, as was planned, built their own new stadium on the park 17 years ago, the city’s two football clubs would have been separated by just a single main road.
On a marvellous stadium tour recently, two Southampton fans from Chicago and a pair of Blues from New Jersey were among a dozen or so voyeurs standing in the rudimentary visiting dressing room that hardly has enough space on its austere wooden benches for 20 opposition players.
Everton will wave goodbye to Goodison this summer after 133 years at the grand old ground.
