Weather the storm of the famous ground’s final league derby and it can be a renewal for a club going nowhere for so long
The deluge came earlier this week, with a bitterly appropriate sense of timing. As the precursor to the approaching Storm Darragh emptied its load over the north-west of England, video footage showed the stands and stairways of Everton’s new stadium cascading with rainwater, filling and flooding the concourses beneath.
Which – in an ideal world – is probably not the image you want people to conjure up when they think of your new £760m waterfront stadium, built on a floodplain, surrounded on three sides by the River Mersey and expected to withstand decades of climate change and devastating sea level rises.
Written by Jonathan Liew
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/dec/06/everton-goodison-park-new-beginning-final-derby under the title “Battered and bruised Everton must turn the end of Goodison into a new beginning | Jonathan Liew”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
