Ive made a similar point for a few years now , since Rhys jones was shot that everton and Liverpool could have a pre season curtain raiser every year with all the money going to establish a few sporting facilities around the city . The game would possibly raise around a million pound every year amd might help in returning the atmosphere to days gone by ...or at least not as toxic
Yeah very good idea and could be done and it would make a hell of a lot of difference in communities around the city.
I will give Everton credit where it is due they do a lot more for the local community than Liverpool but they could both do a lot more providing sporting facilities around the city, my local astro is like Fort Knox now and a current premiership player learnt to play there for free when it was not in use, the kids there now don't have that option anymore and many can't afford to play on the modern astro pitches.
Don't get me wrong it's a different generation to when I grew up yes we had megadrives, playstation etc, but we still played street football every day until it went dark or climbed over the astro fence to have big matches against the older kids.
Just think the city and clubs could do a lot more with free sporting facilities for kids as we are one of the biggest football hubs in the country which has produced more professional players than the rest of the country, I might be wrong there could be the northeast.
Anyway if the council and the clubs could work together to fund these hard wearing sport pitches for the kids of Liverpool maybe we would have more kids putting time and effort into sport than getting up to no good in gangs.
Also we would produce more fowlers and gerrards in the future because 95% of footballers come from poorer/working class backgrounds and the council and club's need to do more.
