Perfect sounds and deafening noise as Everton christen new home in style

How the stadium was paid for at times is, to this day, a mystery, but it was, completed and opened as Everton’s third home, our third stadium built in the city of Liverpool

NEW DAWN: Everton fans savour the plush surrounds of their waterside new home, the Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley Moore in Liverpool. Pic: Michael Regan/Getty Images

IN THE latter months of 2015 just leading up to Moshiri’s initial acquisition of 49.9% of Everton in February 2016, plans were being drawn up for a spectacular stadium on the banks of the River Mersey. It was a rare moment of foresight from Farhad Moshiri, a moment of forward planning, made possible when, for him, cash was a readily available commodity. Genuinely, as he said in his first TV interview some months later “I will give you all I have”.

The initial look at Bramley-Moore dock as it was then, derelict and unloved but part of a World Heritage site, was almost 10 years to the date the first competitive game was played in the now splendidly named Hill Dickinson Stadium.