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Extra.ie
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Extra.ie
Watch: Goodison Park signs off in style with emotional violin rendition of 'Z Cars'
An emotional violin performance of Everton's club anthem 'Z Cars' rang out around Goodison Park as the Toffees officially waved goodbye to their fabled home. Everton are set to move into Bramley Moore Dock – since renamed the Hill Dickinson Stadium for sponsorship reasons – next season under David Moyes. They signed off the Goodison era with a 2-0 win over relegated Southampton, with Iliman Ndiaye bagging a first half brace to secure all three points for the home side. Seamus Coleman featured for Everton in their last-ever Goodison Park match. Pic: Robbie Jay Barratt – AMA/Getty Images Tens of thousands of loyal Bluenoses had lined the terraced streets surrounding Goodison ahead of kick-off to welcome the team into the ground one final time. A number of club greats and ex-players were in attendance and paraded on the pitch afterwards, including Irish legend Séamus Coleman and Wayne Rooney – who received a frosty reception as a chant of 'Manchester is full of s***' rang out as he attempted to answer a question for TV. Rooney – who made his Premier League debut for Everton aged 16 in 2002 before moving to Man United two years later – stood his ground and defended his love for the club he grew up supporting with an X-rated reminder. 'I am am a f*****g Scouser, by the way,' he exclaimed.
BBC News
09-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Fry backs Birmingham to reach Premier League next season
Barry Fry has backed Birmingham City to pull off consecutive promotions and return to the Premier League for the first time since Peterborough United football director watched from the stands as the club he managed to the League Two title and Football League Trophy double in 1995 clinched promotion back to the Championship with a 2-1 win at London his own team's defeat, Fry declared himself delighted at Birmingham's success after a relegation last season had followed years of uncertainty and Blues' dominant season sees them return to the Championship at the first time of asking after new owners Knighthead invested heavily in the squad, and with a new Premier League-standard stadium in the pipeline, just a mile from their current home at St Andrew's, Fry says the revival is ongoing."Birmingham City are the best team in the division by a mile," he said. "They're the richest club, they've got a fanbase that everybody would die for, and they have an owner that gives them financial stability now."The recruitment they've done, especially with their manager Chris Davies, is absolutely top drawer. "I tip them to go again, back-to-back promotions, that's how ambitious they are. The stadium at St Andrew's ain't big enough to get all the Bluenoses in - that's why the owner is building a new one."Knighthead funded a squad thought to be the most expensive in the history of English football's third tier, headed by the three most expensive transfers at that level in striker Jay Stansfield, centre-back Christoph Klarer and attacking midfielder Willum Thor splurge has paid off hugely, with Brum securing promotion with five games to spare and also booking a Wembley date against Peterborough in the final of the EFL Trophy on a shaky start to their tenure, when they sacked John Eustace with Birmingham sixth in the Championship, and appointed Wayne Rooney - who took them to the brink of relegation - Knighthead have won over the fans by backing their commitment with hard who turned 80 this week and is still celebrated by Blues fans, said he was pleased to see the upturn in fortunes at his old said: "I'm so happy for the Bluenoses, because they've been in turmoil for so, so long, not knowing who the owner is, or where their club is going, but they've 'kept right on', as the song says. Brilliant fans."
BBC News
11-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Birmingham get extra 6,490 tickets for EFL Trophy final
Birmingham City have been given more than 6,000 extra tickets for next month's EFL Trophy final against holders Peterborough United at current League One leaders have been handed an additional 6,490 tickets for the game, bringing their total to 43,356 from the original allocation of 36, new tickets are located in category five (£28 for adults) and category six (£20 for adults) on level five in the stadium, blocks will go on sale from 10:00 GMT on Thursday, 13 March. Blues said, external they would "like to thank the EFL for responding positively to the request" for tickets which they say will "allow as many Bluenoses as possible" to reached the showpiece final, to be played on Sunday, 13 April, after beating Bradford City and take on Posh trying to win the competition for a third time, following triumphs in 1991 and 1995.
