Archibald Leitch: The forgotten godfather of Goodison Park and Britain’s football stadiums
John Moores, the Everton chairman, right, and manager Harry Catterick inspect the new roof on Goodison’s Bullens Road Stand in 1963
“For 99 years, the criss-cross balcony motif that runs along the Bullens Road Stand has been the symbol of Goodison Park’s enduring charm. On Sunday, those season-ticket holders in the front row of the stand’s top tier will have one last opportunity to drape their flags and bang on the steel before Everton (the men’s team anyway) say goodbye. The balcony was not always in the club’s blue and white colour scheme, as it is today. Originally, it was painted matt green because this was a functional aspect of the design by its Glaswegian architect, Archibald Leitch, in 1926, rather than a deliberate aesthetic extra, even though it has become fashionable to use the reversed saltire as piping on the collar of Everton’s home kits. …”
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