Rafa Benitez: Liverpool Everton shared stadium would be wrong
Nov 17 2008
Liverpool Daily Post
RAFA BENITEZ has dismissed claims that a shared stadium could work.
Deal maker Keith Harris has backed calls for Liverpool and Everton to share a ground this week but the Reds boss believes it would not be right for either club or their fans.
Those in favour of sharing often cite the fact Milan giants AC and Inter share the San Siro but Benitez is adamant replicating that on Merseyside is not the answer.
“I don’t think it would work,” he said. “If you think of the pitch, you could not have three or four games on the same pitch in a little over one week.
“Often we play two games a week, so if that happened and Everton had two games as well it would be a massive problem.
“I think both sets of fans would prefer to have their own stadiums.
“For me it is not working in Milan anyway.
“We do not have all the details but if you think of us playing in the Champions League on a Tuesday or a Wednesday and then Everton playing in the UEFA Cup on Thursday, like has happened this season, and then there is a league game in the same ground at the weekend – it would be too much.”
Benitez insists both clubs are big enough to have their own stadium rather than bring more than 100 years of separate identities to an end.
“It would be better to have our own stadium,” he added.
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