Everton suits are already getting in their excuses nice and early for the collapse of their Kirkby ‘super-stadium’.

In reality this could be a graveyard for shopping trolleys and a dead-end for Everton’s ambitions - it looks like some desperate Blues are after a ground-share with Liverpool, surely a sign of extreme anxiety and it shows what a truly rotten idea Kirkby is.

Despite all the Blues’ claims that destination Kirkby was a good proposal, this proves they will leap on anything to stay in the city. And for those reasons we should do our utmost to crush this idea, and leave Everton with no option but to slide out of Liverpool, leaving it to us.

'Any argument for ground-share seems to be on logical, cold and calculated principles'


In all seriousness, though, wind-ups like the above aside, I have always been opposed to a ground share with Everton, and not just because it represents a more economical and practical answer for the Toffees than leaving the city – and anything that is good for them, is usually bad for us.

Our two grounds, Anfield (and, yes, I know all about Everton’s history there) and Goodison, are the essence of who we are. This is why so many Evertonians are up in arms about leaving their home, and sharing a ground would by no means sweeten the pill of moving. The case that always gets wheeled out is the San Siro – but ground sharing is much more common in Italy, and rather than seeing a ground-share as one wonderful Merseyside footballing focal point, I see it as moving two footballing shrines into one place – a needless merging.

On the issue of ground-share, Liverpool City Council leader Warren Bradley said: “I’ve been working behind the scenes on a joint Liverpool and Everton stadium. I have talked to the sports minister and to the Northwest Regional Development Agency and I’ve spoken to Everton chairman Bill Kenwright.”

This is all well and good but the lack of any Liverpool figures in the statement by Bradley tells me a lot. Any argument for ground-share seems to be on logical, cold and calculated principles.

The problem is football support isn’t a science and cannot be measured empirically. The joy of bellowing in an Evertonian’s lughole when we’ve crushed them at fortress Anfield would diminish if we knew that it was theirs, too.

Keep both clubs separate, I say, ground-share is a horrific idea – meshing together two independent clubs in a Frankenstein stadium with a Liverpool end and an Everton end is not the way to go.