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Fans of both clubs should therefore acknowledge that if it wasn’t for Everton FC then there would have been no Liverpool FC, and if it wasn’t for Liverpool FC, then there would be no Goodison Park.
Having been in Walton since 1892, the Blues, who have already built several community facilities in the shadow of their ground, are understandably eager to retain a presence in the area through the Goodison Park Legacy Project but while the good folk of L4 won’t be forgotten when the team makes the two-mile journey to Vauxhall on the Mersey waterfront this summer, Everton will change.
England World Cup winners, Roger Hunt of Liverpool and Ray Wilson of Everton, carry the trophy around Goodison Park ahead of the 1966 Charity Shield, followed by their club colleagues with captains Ron Yeats and Brian Labone holding the League Championship and FA Cup respectively.
As recently as 1971, the duo were tied at the top of English football alongside Arsenal and Manchester United on a record seven League Championships apiece.
James Tarkowski celebrates after scoring during the match between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park on February 12, 2025.
Only this week, this correspondent spoke in the latest episode of Goodison Park: My Home to Peter Reid, the Huyton-born boyhood Kopite turned True Blue about how he refused to board the joint open top bus parade through the city that had been planned after the 1986 FA Cup final when Liverpool clinched the double for the only time to date.
Even if we discount the Old Firm who bizarrely had Tottenham Hotspur sandwiched between them in seventh spot, the list of English sides went: Manchester United; Liverpool; Arsenal; Manchester City; Chelsea; Spurs; Aston Villa; Newcastle United
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