'We are leaving Goodison, but Goodison will never leave us'

BLUES IN HARMONY: Fans unite on a day full of emotion

- By Andy Dunn

EXPECTED goals, corporate hospitality, set-piece coaches, projects, technical directors, podcasts, low blocks, 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 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 those inside Goodison Park were not for the cameras, they were for a way of life.

They were for fathers, for mothers, for grandfathers, for grandmothers, for ancestors, for friends never forgotten, for bonds never broken.