WE ARE LEAVING GOODISON. BUT GOODISON WILL NEVER LEAVE US

Andy Gra" sums up the emotional scenes at an iconic ground as football said goodbye to the Grand Old Lady

- ANDY DUNN

EXPECTED goals, corporate hospitality, set-piece coaches, projects, technical directors, podcasts, low blocks and mid blocks.

Subscription television, padded seats, transitions, choreographed celebrations, tunnel clubs, double pivots, false nines.

And every other item of modern football paraphernalia you can possibly think of.

You can have them all. Enjoy them. But under a royal blue sky on Merseyside, the real power of football not the commercial power, not the political power, not the macho power - was laid bare.

The tears of the men, women and children inside Goodison Park were not for the cameras, they were for a way of life.

They were for fathers, for moth-ers, for grandfathers, for grand-mothers, for ancestors, for friends never forgotten, for bonds never broken. And they were for history, as in real history, not Premier League history.

And if you know your history, it's enough to make your heart go... etc, etc. You know the tune.