On a night when ‘The Boss’ rolled into town, ‘The King’ waved goodbye for the final time. De Bruyne’s face was plastered everywhere you looked on arrival at the stadium and although legendary US singer Bruce Springsteen may have been playing a few yards away at the Co-Op Live arena, this was the hottest ticket...
Liverpool-based legal firm Hill Dickinson is the naming rights partner for Everton’s new stadium. The new arena will be named the Hill Dickinson Stadium after the company, which has its headquarters in the city. Everton will move to the stadium for the start of the 2025-26 season, leaving their current home of Goodison Park. They...
Goodison Park is to become the home of Everton’s women after the club scrapped plans to demolish the 132-year-old stadium. The Blues will move to their new 53,000-seater arena at Bramley-Moore Dock this summer. During construction of the new facility on the Liverpool waterfront, Everton’s previous ownership group announced plans for an £82m post-demolition renovation...
“We tried for many months to purchase the company which owns the stadium, which was the seller’s preferred method of completing the transaction. The funds were in place, but the seller refused to provide all the normal information about the company – a standard, required procedure.” Brown said Accies would have had to “buy the...
That the club battled its way from non-league to the Premier League at a ground that has so often been the butt of jokes is even more of an achievement. “There were quite a few times at Kenilworth Road last season where we were actually sniggering saying, ‘isn’t this funny, with Pep Guardiola sitting in...
Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson will return from injury to race in the women’s 800m at this summer’s London Athletics Meet on Saturday 19 July. The 23-year was forced to withdraw from February’s Keely Klassic in Birmingham because of a hamstring injury. At last year’s event at London Stadium, Hodgkinson set a meeting record, national...
Planning and digital renders for a new stadium and high performance centre for Cricket Ireland in Dublin have been lodged by Sport Ireland. The plans include a floodlit stadium with a seated capacity of 4,240 spectators and a two-story pavilion, where the sport’s high performance centre would be located. A proposal for an extra 7,760...
The first images showing what Leeds United’s Elland Road stadium could look like if expansion plans are given the go-ahead have been released. Proposals to modernise and expand the ground, taking its capacity from 37,645 to about 56,500, were backed by Leeds City Council’s executive board last week. The club, which secured its return to...
Daniel Dubois and Oleksandr Usyk will fight to become the undisputed world heavyweight champion at Wembley Stadium on 19 July. Briton Dubois is the IBF champion, with Usyk holding the WBA (Super), WBO and WBC belts. Usyk is undefeated in 23 fights and beat Dubois, 27, via a ninth-round stoppage in August 2023. The 38-year-old...
Bournemouth technical director Simon Francis says they could “end up being a victim of our own success” this summer with clubs wanting their players. The Cherries are eighth in the Premier League and have had some star performers this season, including defender Dean Huijsen. “There will be bigger teams circling around and looking at some...
A football fan who filmed himself stealing food at Everton’s new stadium during a test event has received a lifetime ban from the club. The video showed the man ordering food at the new Bramley-Moore Dock ground in Vauxhall, Liverpool, before the server turned away to make him a coffee. The fan was then heard...
Fairplex has an existing grandstand, which was built in 1932 and holds 8,000 spectators. It is set to be renovated this year, but is not yet certain if this will be incorporated into stadium plans. The site has previously held concerts for between 40,000 and 60,000 people. The International Cricket Council (ICC), International Olympic Committee...
“Transport Scotland is a statutory consultee, so they have to report one way or the other how they feel about their aspect of the project. All of the other aspects of the project have been completed and agreed months ago.” Nelms believes it is a “solvable” issue but wants to meet Transport Scotland as he...
Video shows the moment a parachutist got caught on the roof of a stadium ahead of a rugby match. Two parachutists delivering the match ball landed safely on the pitch at the Stade de Toulouse, ahead of Sale’s Champions Cup tie against Toulouse, but their colleague went off course and was left dangling from the...
Wales: Joyce-Butchers; Neumann, H Jones (capt), Powell, Cox, George, Bevan; G Pyrs, Phillips, Scoble, Fleming, Crabb, Williams, Lewis, Evans. Replacements: K Jones, M Davies, Rose, A Pyrs, King, M Davies, C Keight, N Metcalfe. England: Kildunne; Dow, Jones, Heard, Breach; Harrison, Hunt; Carson, Atkin-Davies, Bern, Talling, Ward, Aldcroft (capt), Kabeya, Feaunati. Replacements: Cokayne, Botterman, Muir,...