Everton: First match at the new stadium, and first defeat

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By: Manu Tournoux

This Monday evening, 10,000 lucky could be the first to discover what is brought to become the new lair of Everton. Launched in 2019, the new stadium project has come to an end, and the speaker of almost 53,000 places was unveiled to the public for a match between the U18 of Toffes and those of Wigan. A test phase that will extend for young people that at the end of the season, before a final move next year for team A, which will leave Goodison Park.

A project that had everything of the obstacle course for Everton, who first encountered the lack of enthusiasm of fans at the idea of ​​leaving Goodison Park, stadium of Toffes for 133 years now, then to aborted stadium projects In King's Dock and Kirkby, as well as another who has never really led to Walton Hall Park. Only a first spoiled by the defeat of Everton's young people against Wigan, the first striker Harrison Rimmer even chambers the Ultras by recalling the six leagues of the Champions of Liverpool, the Rival club.