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We were travelling along the M62
to Everton to see Hull City. We was in a poor
run of form and the last point we got was a
few weeks earlier at Anfield. We knew the way
because Anfield is pretty much next door to
Goodison park and we actually parked right
outside Goodison for the Liverpool game.
For this game I was travelling with three
friends, two of which had bagged tickets for
the corporate section at Goodision, this meant
that we got a parking spot in the secure car
park next to the stadium. From experience a
few weeks earlier at Anfield we had no trouble
parking in one of the secure car parks dotted
around the ground, even though they are a
little steep at £10. The "stadia" are
well sign posted coming from the M62 and we
had no trouble finding it.
Before the game, me and a friend had a fair
bit of time to look around since we got there
at about 12:30 (friends had a pre-match meal).
We decided to have a look in the club shop and
then a walk across Stanley Park to have a look
at Anfield, especially for my friend who
didn't go to the Liverpool game a few weeks
earlier. The club shop was a nice shelter from
the freezing cold but obviously didn't promise
too much for the away fans. We then headed
across the road into Stanley Park where the
cold showed as the lake was frozen over. As we
headed across the open football fields to
Anfield we was hit by the freezing wind but it
didn't seem to affect quite a few young
Everton and Liverpool fans having a kick
around. We got warm greetings from all
supporters we met, especially
the Liverpool fans!. We journeyed back to
Goodison for a burger outside of the ground
which was pretty good. We saw some Everton
players entering the stadiums after getting
out of their cars and a kind supporter told us
where our team bus would come in, we had a
good chat and then waited 5 minutes for the
bus.
After clapping the team off the bus we went
around the other side of the stadium to the
entrance for away fans. We was in the Upper
section which promised a good view. The
stadium looked okay from the outside, although
a little old. Entering the turnstiles we
headed up some stairs into a very cramped
concourse which looked more like an old train
station. There was nothing on the TVs and
luckily we got in there very early and grabbed
ourselves a hot drink before the queues (if
you can call them that) became ridiculous.
There is no real space in the concourse so we
headed to our seats. We was worried about the
cold but actually where we were sat we was
protected from the wind very well, I even took
my gloves off. The stadium looks old and you
can see why thay want to move but there is
still a certain charm to it.
There didn't seem to be too much sound coming
from home supporters, except for the
cheering after their two goals. Their first
goal a cross, later shown to be offside which
was headed in by Fellini. Just before half
time Everton grabbed a second from a brilliant
free kick. We played terrible and didn't have
a shot on target for the full game but our
support was decent considering. We even
managed a rendition of "You'll never walk
along" which seemed to get some of the home
supporters a little heated. The stewards were
pretty good, me and the people around me were
stood up for most of the game and wasn't told
to sit down.
We were a little late to leave as we were
waiting for our friends for about ten minutes
so the traffic was quite bad but we were on
the motorway within 30 minutes which isn't
bad. Overall the game wasn't great for us but
it was an enjoyable day out with friendly home
supporters.
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