Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Destination Kirkby



I'm pretty ambivalent about the ground move. What I'd really like the club to do is (somehow) redevelop in our current location. Stick a nice 47,000 seater right on Goodison Road with state of the art facilities, great sight lines and a robot to clean up the streets. But that ain't happening. What I definitely DO NOT WANT is to be stuck with a JJB / Reebok box out in some barren, miles-from-anywhere wasteland. Or to be part of a giant retail park. That looks to be what we're getting. What Arsenal did with the Emirates has to be the blueprint for any club with aspirations of greatness, pretty much everything else is terrible. One thing that did strike me on Sunday was just what we'd be saying goodbye to in the inevitable event that we re-locate to Kirkby. Reckon you'll see a sign like this anywhere else? I mean the escalator to the Top Balcony is unique right?

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