GOODISON PARK | EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB
THE GRAND OLD LADY
Goodison Park, the Grand Old Lady, will close at the end of the 2024/25 football season. Since 1892 it has been home to Everton Football Club. I first visited Goodison Park in 1978 aged nine. It was the last game of the season and Bob Latchford needed just two more goals to become the first player in years to score 30 goals in one season. He stood to win £10,000 if he did it. In the end, we beat Chelsea 6 - 0 and Bob Latchford scored his thirty goals. When you visit it now, it is the stories that everyone has that make it so special. The place has such atmosphere, it is unlike any football ground I’ve been to. Progress, everyone says, but sometimes I wish things would just stand still. The new stadium, Bramley Moore is gleeming, bigger, modern, stylish, but it isn’t Goodison. This old ground where Dixie Dean scored sixty goals (still unbeaten nearly a hundred years later), where Pele played for Brazil, and where I took my own children will be gone and I am sad about this. UTT
