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In 2024, Everton will likely begin playing in their new 52,000-seater stadium at Bramley-Maw-Doc

on the River Mersey, promises to transform the club's future and also be a source of great

civic rejuvenation. But Bramley-Mock and indeed the man after whom it was named have a troubling

past. Our Merseyside Football Reporter Simon Hughes, along with editor Dan Barnes and author

Jimmy Jagney, who contributed to the piece, all join us for this one. I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome

to the Athletic Football Podcast.

The word is, is opportunity.

Everton are probably unfortunate that they're inheritors of a history that hasn't been written.

That's not their fault as a football club.

I think with that inheritance comes huge responsibility.

If everybody sits on their hands and doesn't show response,

the conclusion to be drawn from that is it doesn't matter.

That's my biggest fear.

There are schools, businesses, tower blocks, pubs, all bearing his name.

This could be a really uncomfortable 40 minutes to listen to because there is a lot of uncomfortable truth here.

You, Simon, take me through the recent history with this story.

Okay, so Everton are moving into a new 52,000 seats a stadium in the Bramleymore dock,

which is Myler 2 north of Liverpool City Centre.

It's named after John Bramley Moore, who was a previous Lord Mayor of Liverpool.

He got the dock site after making a very important decision in Liverpool's history as a city,

which related to the northward extension of the dock.

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