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- Rooney was amongst 60 former gamers featured in a parade following the match
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Wayne Rooney was among the many membership greats who joined in Everton’s emotional farewell to Goodison Park on Sunday after victory in opposition to Southampton.
Rooney was joined by fellow Blues legends Peter Reid, Graeme Sharp and Duncan Ferguson and 60 different former gamers in a parade on the pitch that adopted Iliman Ndiaye’s brace in a 2-0 win.
After supporters good-naturedly mocked Rooney’s affiliation with Manchester United, he informed them to an enormous ovation: ‘I’m a Scouser by the best way – a younger lad from Crocky (Croxteth).
‘Everton was the membership I grew up with. I nonetheless love the membership. I do know we’ve had ups and down. Hopefully we are able to carry historical past we’ve had at Goodison Pak to the brand new stadium.’
Rooney was embraced by former team-mate Duncan Ferguson and parade host boxer Tony Bellew as he spoke and there have been extra tears when Tim Cahill added a tribute to late chairman Invoice Kenwright, saying: ‘Invoice can be watching down.’
Nineteen Eighties heroes Andy Grey and Peter Reid acquired a number of the greatest cheers as they had been introduced.
Wayne Rooney was amongst Everton greats current for his or her Goodison Park farewell
Peter Reid and Andy Grey had been amongst these to obtain the largest cheers from supporters
Hundreds of Everton followers got here out to greet the crew forward of the match with Southampton
Everton earned a 2-0 victory over Southampton to finish the Goodison Park period on a excessive
Grey mentioned: ‘I believed I’d seen every part in soccer till I got here to Everton. The environment right here was one thing extraordinary. We could also be leaving Goodison however Goodison won’t ever depart us.’
Earlier, 1000’s of Everton followers had turned out to greet the crew’s arrival and the gamers did their half by cruising to with two first-half objectives in opposition to the Premier League’s backside crew.
Supervisor David Moyes mentioned: ‘The scenes exterior the stadium had been unbelievable. I made the purpose to the participant we needed to end off the Goodison period correctly.
‘Though we had been secure within the desk, the strain was nonetheless on them due to the event and due to all of the greats who had been sitting watching them.’
After 133 years at Goodison, Everton’s males’s crew will kick off subsequent season at a brand new floor by Liverpool’s waterside which was this week named the Hill Dickinson Stadium. The ladies’s crew will proceed to play at Goodison.
