So glad you were able to share this special day with your son.

Hope this doesn't mean I need to download the original message before every game.

My own father, who isn’t the best on his legs right now told me he wasn’t going, but I managed to find a driveway close enough to the stadium, thanks to one of my customers on Friday night, and I think this put him at ease.

Parking a ten minute, medium paced walk from the stadium, was okay for Dave, especially with it being such a nice day, giving us enough time to bump into a few different mates, one of whom, I happened to have a card with a photograph of his deceased father, (Big Eddie Kenny, will have definitely been there in spirit, alongside his sons and his grandsons, anyway)

The usual laughs, (laughter, one of humanity’s greatest commodities, definitely seems to be in short supply, these days) a word on the phone, with Eddie’s other son, and he was telling me, “I’m outside the ground by the river, looking at all these steps, and it’s completely blowing me away, here lad.

We got into the stadium with no hiccups, but then Dave, was told there was no escalators by the steward, he struggled up the stairs, only to then find out that the incompetent steward, never told him he could have taken the lift!

When walking towards our entrance, I got my first view of the inside of the stadium, looking through the adjacent entrance, (my daughter’s eyes, are now imprinted for life!) and then after climbing a few stairs, I got my first ever view of the inside of Bramley Moore Dock.

Fuckinhell - resonated through my brain, oh my god, this is just absolutely wonderful, I thought, as I slowly walked up the stairs to my seat.

I took it all in, was completely blown away by the scale of the design, and when I looked at the steepness of the southstand, it reminded me of being in Cologne’s ground, with my oldest two children, during the World Cup. (another wonderful happy time, in my life)

When the siren came on I felt very emotional. Not with the sadness which I felt when leaving Goodison, but with pure happiness, because the stadium, is everything I had wished for and more👏

Football has changed, a lot of stadiums now house over 50.000 spectators, and yet the away fans only get 3.000 tickets, so this means we have got to take advantage and turn our stadium into a lions den, became my thoughts throughout the game, as the stadium began to get louder.

A beautiful day, I thought your observation about Brighton, being toothless up front, but very dangerous out wide, was 100% correct Phil, and thinking about it yesterday, I felt happy for my father because he sat beside his son, his granddaughter and his great grandson, which meant there was four generations in four seats.💙