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| Everton to meet Liverpool Council to discuss stadium • Talks over Blues move will take place on 11 January• Council wants new ground within city boundariesEverton will enter into new talks with Liverpool City Council over a new stadium. A date of 11 January has been set aside for the two sides to meet following the rejection of a planning application for a new stadium in Kirkby.That proposed £400m development of a 50,000-seater stadium, in partnership with Tesco, collapsed last month. Liverpool City Council was opposed to the project. It will send a high-ranking delegation to the 11 January meeting, which was promised after the Kirkby decision. It is considered that redeveloping Goodison Park is too expensive.Everton's head of public relations, Ian Ross, said: "Throughout the Destination Kirkby process, Liverpool City Council always made it clear that if the project was to fail they would step forward and seek to help us. As a consequence, a working group is to be formed and meetings held to actively explore all the options and possibilities which are open to Everton."Despite the disappointment of seeing our proposed move to Kirkby collapse we as a club remain convinced that a move to a new home is not only the right way forward but the only way forward."Of course, it does remain to be seen if the City Council can provide us with the level of help and assistance which we will require if we are to [re]locate to any new stadium within the Liverpool boundaries but we will enter these preliminary talks with a measure of optimism."The City Council leader, Warren Bradley – who is an Everton fan – said: "We have got a meeting with Everton where we will put all our cards on the table."I will be there as will be council chief executive Colin Hilton and executive director of regeneration John Kelly. We want to make sure that we can facilitate things for Everton."EvertonPremier Leagueguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Everton 3-1 Carlisle United For all the romantic tosh talked about the magic of the FA Cup, contests between Premier League sides and teams from the lower leagues are usually marked by moments of superior vision, skill and style. This was no different, with the proviso that most of the vision, skill and style belonged to the club sitting 15th in League One.Had the volley from Carlisle's captain, Danny Livesey, been fractionally lower, the 6,000 or so fans who struggled south through the snow-swept Cumbrian fells would almost certainly have witnessed the biggest upset of the third round. As it was, Livesey's shot crashed against the crossbar midway through the second half and rebounded back to safety.With eight minutes separating Carlisle from a replay at Brunton Park, Tim Cahill burst through a crowd of defenders to give last year's beaten finalists a nervous passage through to the fourth round with his 50th goal for Everton. In stoppage time, the Carlisle keeper, Adam Collin, brought down Kieran Agard and Leighton Baines finished off the resultant penalty to give the scoreline an underserved sheen.However, Carlisle were to Merseyside eyes sometimes embarrassingly superior. The only moment when Everton looked as if they would enjoy a comfortable afternoon came when Adam Clayton horribly misjudged a back pass to allow James Vaughan a clear run on goal.Since the Everton manager, David Moyes, had chosen to suspend Jo for his unauthorised Christmas in Brazil, Vaughan, making his first start in 17 months, was his only striking option. However, Vaughan rounded the Carlisle keeper coolly enough.Everton were to enjoy the lead for five minutes until Clayton made amends with a muscular run and shot that deflected off Kevan Hurst, was half-saved by Tim Howard and trickled over the line. From that moment until Cahill's intervention, which the Carlisle bench thought should have been disallowed for a foul, the Cumbrians were on top but it was Everton who are through.FA CupEvertonCarlisleTim Richguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Liverpool knocked out of FA Cup Liverpool's season has suffered another setback, being knocked out of the FA Cup by struggling Championship side Reading. foxsports.com.au |
Victory keeps Schalke in 2nd: Germany Kevin Kuranyi scored early in the second half to give Schalke a 1-0 win over Nuremberg on Sunday to remain second in the Bundesliga, while Borussia Dortmund secured a dramatic 3-2 win over Cologne with a stoppage-time winner. cbc.ca |
Southampton 2 Ipswich Town 1: match report Ipswich manager Roy Keane now has to contend with the piercing disappointment of an FA Cup upset. telegraph.co.uk |