Not a dry eye or glass in sight as Everton say farewell to Goodison

“When I got back here, this club looked broken, felt broken," said David Moyes after Everton's 2-0 victory over Southampton. "It doesn’t feel like that any more."

Wayne Rooney and Duncan Ferguson were among the former Everton players in attendance at Goodison Park for their men's team's final game at the ground. Pic: Martin Rickett/PA Wire.

THEY came from far and wide, the great and the good of Everton Football Club past and present, to bid farewell to Goodison Park, the “Grand Old Lady” of English football, and after 133 years of memories - good and bad - there was not a dry eye in the house, or a dry glass within a five-mile radius of this glorious old ground.

Peter Reid was not alone in admitting before kick-off that he “had a shandy.” Queues were forming outside local pubs by around 8.30am as the mood vacillated between wild celebration and wake.