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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jonathan Humphries

Cheeky workmen bury Everton FC shirt under Liverpool FC stand

Footage circulating on social media shows the moment a group of cheeky workmen buried an Everton FC under Liverpool's old Main Stand at Anfield .

The footage shows the unidentified men, all wearing workboots, laying the royal blue jersey with the Everton crest visible, inside a step between two banks of seats.

One of the men delicately lays the folded shirt inside the wooden frame of the step, before he and a colleague pour wet cement over it.

The video was filmed before the £100m redevelopment of the stand in 2016, meaning the shirt is no longer inside.

The expansion added a third tier and around 8,500 seats, increasing the capacity of the stadium to 54,000.

Cheeky workmen burying an Everton shirt in Anfield's old Main Stand (Liverpool Echo)

In August the club announced ambitious new plans to increase capacity to around 60,000, replacing existing redevelopment plans.

Existing outline planning permission, which allows for the addition of around 4,000 seats to the stand, is due to expire next month.

And  Liverpool  owners Fenway Sports Group will allow that to lapse and instead concentrate on alternative options with a view to submitting what the club regard an "ambitious new" planning application for a larger scheme in due course.

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