Goodison Park
About Goodison Park
Goodison Park is a football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, two miles (3 km) north of the city centre. It was built to serve as the home ground of Everton F.C., and opened in 1892. Goodison Park hosted the 1910 FA Cup Final, and was also a venue for the 1966 World Cup, in addition to hosting numerous other international fixtures. Everton relocated to the Hill Dickinson Stadium in 2025, and the stadium became the home of Everton Women. It has an all-seated capacity of 39,414.
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Their match was played in 1920 at Goodison Park in Liverpool and it drew a crowd of 53,000 people with another 10 to 15,000 reportedly turned away. The justification for the FA banning women from playing on any FA approved grounds was that women were too frail to play football and they'd be too easily injured.
from 17: No Such Thing As A Bassoon In A Football Stadium, 2014-07-11 at 00:28:27 · read transcript
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In fact, one of the Wimbledon groundskeepers said, you're walking the line between life and death when you maintain that grass. All right. Okay. You're the one who's elevated them to sort of global renowned status. Let me give you a test on football, Andy. Yeah. Stanford Bridge, Goodison Park, St. James's Park, Emirates Stadium, Amfield, Old Trafford, Wembley. What is the surface they play football on in those places? Grass. It is not grass. Oh, come on. They play on something called Deso Grassmaster.
No Such Thing As Darts Vader, 2024-08-01 · listen
Hey, you're the one who's elevated them to sort of a global, renowned status. Let me give you a test on football, Andy. Yeah. Stanford Bridge, Good on football, Andy. Yeah. Stanford Bridge, Goodison Park, St. James' Park, Emmerich Stadium, Anfield, Old Trafford, Wembley. What is the surface they play football on in those places? Grass. It is not grass. Oh, come on. They play on something called Desso Grassmaster.
542: No Such Thing As Darts Vader, 2024-08-01 · listen
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