The “Grand Old Lady” of English soccer is about to bid farewell to the men’s game.<\/p>\n
Goodison Park, the long-time home of Premier League team Everton, has staged more top-tier games than any other stadium in England. It was where Pele was kicked to pieces before losing a World Cup match with Brazil for the only time. It was where eight English league titles were won, and where several nerve-shredding escapes from relegation in the Premier League were completed.<\/p>\n
Everton will leave Goodison at the end of this season to move to a new 53,000-seat stadium at nearby Bramley-Moore Dock. Sunday’s visit b Southampton marks the final game in the team’s home of 133 years and the occasion will be marked by what Everton is calling an “End of an Era” ceremony afterward.<\/p>\n
The stadium will continue to operate instead in the women’s game, as the new home of Everton Women.<\/p>\n
Goodison wasn’t always Everton’s home Goodison Park has been the home to eight of Everton’s nine title-winning campaigns. The first came somewhere you might not expect.<\/p>\n
Everton became a professional club and played its first Football League fixture at Anfield \u2014 now the storied home of neighbor Liverpool \u2014 from 1884-92. The club’s first league title was won there in 1891, with Everton matches watched by crowds of up to 20,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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