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Goodison Park in a light that never goes out
JAMES NALTON reflects on times spent at Everton’s home ground and the sadness that English football is losing a link to its past and tradition

IN FREEZING cold weather conditions on a Thursday night amid the post-Christmas and new year lull, you could forgive a football stadium for not being at its best, but somehow, even in the most testing times, Goodison Park always turns up.

It continues to do so despite the Everton FC of recent years playing some of its worst football since a notoriously bad spell in 1994. At times, it might even have been worse.

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