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New Everton Stadium

One thing I never understand the meaning of is "first purpose built football stadium" in the world. What exactly does that mean. Wasn't Anfield purpose built? Does it mean that other sports were played there other than football? Surely every football ground is purpose built and was always? Any ideas? Thanks.
I don't fully understand the meaning either, but I suppose football at that time was only played in Britain and if you were the first you were probably the first in the world.

I've found a piece from Wikipedia which will be of particular interest to you. It's edited for brevity.

"Dr James Baxter of the Everton Commitee donated a thousand pounds interest free loan to build Goodison Park. The stadium was
England's first purpose built football ground, with stands on three sides.
Upon it's completion the stadium was the joint first purpose built football stadium in the world; Celtic's basic Celtic Park ground in Glasgow, Scotland was inaugurated on the same day as Goodison Park."

If you can find the definition of 'purpose built', let us know.

If anyone wants read the whole thing search Goodison Park History and click on Wikipedia. It's a long read, but if you're interested enough.....
 
I don't fully understand the meaning either, but I suppose football at that time was only played in Britain and if you were the first you were probably the first in the world.

I've found a piece from Wikipedia which will be of particular interest to you. It's edited for brevity.

"Dr James Baxter of the Everton Commitee donated a thousand pounds interest free loan to build Goodison Park. The stadium was
England's first purpose built football ground, with stands on three sides.
Upon it's completion the stadium was the joint first purpose built football stadium in the world; Celtic's basic Celtic Park ground in Glasgow, Scotland was inaugurated on the same day as Goodison Park."

If you can find the definition of 'purpose built', let us know.

If anyone wants read the whole thing search Goodison Park History and click on Wikipedia. It's a long read, but if you're interested enough.....
By purpose built they mean a complete football stadium. Anfield and all the others were only partial stadiums to start with. Some of those were cricket grounds or basic parks with one enclosure or embankment. Goodison was a fully laid out ground from day one.
 

The more and more I see of our lovely new home the more important I am starting to realise how much we need to not get relegated. That stadium itself will attract players who will want to come and live in town, train in finch farm and play matches at BMD. We simply have to stay up.
it really does look nice, superb from the outside, im sure the inside will be fantastic as well.
 
The more and more I see of our lovely new home the more important I am starting to realise how much we need to not get relegated. That stadium itself will attract players who will want to come and live in town, train in finch farm and play matches at BMD. We simply have to stay up.
Whatever about attracting players, it will attract tourists, some of whom will become fans. Never underestimate how much more attractive watching Everton will become for visitors.

One thing I will say for the new stadium is that it will be a huge psychological moment when we kick away the crutch that was Goodison from our identity. It will be both profoundly upsetting and utterly necessary for us as a fanbase to do that. It will be our first serious willing step into the future.

Whether we must also kick away that other plank of our identity - that of being the longest-serving members of the top flight - depends on what happens this season. But it looks inevitable that we will soon be joined by City on nine league titles and they will soon surpass us to reach 10.

We're going to need to change.
 
By purpose built they mean a complete football stadium. Anfield and all the others were only partial stadiums to start with. Some of those were cricket grounds or basic parks with one enclosure or embankment. Goodison was a fully laid out ground from day one.

So, it was the first stadium in the world to have stands of 4 stands from the day it was built? Brilliant, thanks for the explanation. I was always unsure what it meant.
 

So, it was the first stadium in the world to have stands of 4 stands from the day it was built? Brilliant, thanks for the explanation. I was always unsure what it meant.
Not necessarily about the stands, but It was the first ground built 'specifically' for football.
As others have said football had until then been played wherever there was space to do so, i.e. on fields/parks, cricket pitches etc.
 
So, it was the first stadium in the world to have stands of 4 stands from the day it was built? Brilliant, thanks for the explanation. I was always unsure what it meant.
Before Goodison (and Celtic Park) there were only sports grounds that allowed, amongst many other sports, football to be played there.
GP was built solely for Everton Football Club and the purpose of Association Football and as such was the first of its kind in the world.
 
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Last section ISN'T up. Ffs.
They are taking tower crane No3 down though
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