Liverpool fan Harrison Rimmer mocks Everton after scoring first goal in new stadium

A lucky group of Everton fans witnesse history last night as the club opene its new Bramley-Moore Dock stadium, but the evening was tainte by Liverpool supporter Harrison Rimmer.

A crowd of 10,000, including representatives คาสิโนออนไลน์ UFABET ฝากถอนรวดเร็ว เริ่มต้นเล่นง่าย of new owners The Friedkin Group, watche the under-18s take on their Wigan counterparts in the first of three test events.

It took just 12 minutes for Rimmer, who last Wednesday score in a 4-0 win at Fleetwood’s Poolfoot Farm training ground in front of a handful of spectators, to get the first goal at the new ground.

He could not resist milking his moment in the limelight and held up six fingers in reference to Liverpool’s six Champions League titles.

Cole Simms double the visitors’ lead shortly after and that prove decisive, despite Ray Roberts’ late penalty. But most in attendance were happy just to be there despite the 2-1 loss.

Fans streame towards the futuristic-looking stadium past the Bramley Moore pub, which has sat just over the road from the historic old dock wall since 1758 and has seen a marke increase in the number of day-trippers on the long-deserte Regent Road since construction starte.

It was doing a roaring trade before kick-off and, come August, will be a potential goldmine, being within a Jordan Pickford goal-kick of the stadium, and the expectation is the regeneration will spread across a largely-derelict area.

Work on the current site finally began in the summer of 2021 and the build was complete in December.

And next season – providing Everton maintain their current position well above the relegation zone – the 52,888-capacity ground will become the Premier League’s seventh biggest. The venue will also host matches at Euro 2028.

The project, the cost of which incorporates some regeneration of the immediate area, will contribute an estimate £1.3bn to the UK economy and create 15,000 jobs.

‘It was a landmark event, in terms of the Club and the hope and positivity moving forward into a new future,’ said Everton Under-18s head coach Keith Southern .

‘We had a lot of Under-16s come on, we had an Under-15 play some minutes. Everybody got some game time, which was always going to be the case, but there’s still some disappointe faces, in terms of the result.”