'Even if I wasn't manager I'd have been at the last game'

MOYES ON HIS LOVE OF GOODISON PARK AS HE REVEALS HIS FAVOURITE PART OF THE OLD GROUND

- By CHRIS BEESLEY

DAVID Moyes has lifted the lid on his favourite part of Goodison Park and revealed he'd have still attended Everton’s historic final fixture at the ground even if he'd not returned as manager.

Some 133 years on from when they relocated from Anfield and constructed Goodison Park as the first purpose-built football ground in England, the Blues will be departing the venue that has hosted the most top flight matches for a new 52,888 capacity home by the banks of the Mersey, confirmed as Hill Dickinson Stadium on Friday after a naming rights deal, following Sunday's high noon showdown against Southampton.

Although ‘The Grand Old Lady’ has been spared the bulldozers with the announcement that from next season she will become the home of club's women’s team, ahead of the historic occasion, Moyes, who steered Everton to nine top eight finishes, including their highest ever Premier League position of fourth during his first spell in charge between 2002-13, was asked whether he has a favourite part of Goodison Park.

The Glaswegian said: “Maybe the last bit of the tunnel, going down and going up. I was talking about it in a couple of interviews, you are nearly bumping into each other going down the tunnel.