Bye-Bye Bellefield

GRAEME WHARTONI only played at bellfield twice over a 2 day period in 1976 during a sports for all day, but it was one of my boasts to say i had done it, but im with the majority, it is a good time to move, for the benefit of the club, as they say gone but never forgotten. bellfield has served its time and we want to compete at the highest level that includes having top training facilities for hopefully top class players, it can only make the club more appealing to future players.

Christopher O'connorWhen i was 10 my dad took me to see everton fc for the first time, coming from ireland my dad took me to bellefield the day before, the caretaker heard i came from ireland and took me on a tour around the training ground where i met tony cottee, gary ablett and colin harvey assistant manager at the time just to name a few, i cant remember much when i was 10, but that will always stay in my mind.Ill Never forget the hospitality shown to me by the staff, Bellefield may be gone but Everton F.C will always be!!

You can take the club out of the city, but not the city out of the club.

Stephen BondI played at Bellefield a couple of times as a youngster aginst the youth teams, the best result for us being a 8-0 defeat, it was always the highlight of the pre-season friendlies. The pitches were amazing to play on - like playing on putting green.

Andrew McLoughlinI have some very fond memories of visiting Bellfield in the days of Graeme Sharp, Andy Gray, Adrian Heath, Neville Southall, etc... Its sad in one respect to close the door on so much history, however, with modern day football growing and progressing so fast, Everton need to move with the times. Hopefully, the new training complex will offer us more opportunity and improvement. Next, a new stadium! :)