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EXCLUSIVEEverton's legendary former player and manager Joe Royle takes an emotional tour of Goodison Park before Toffees finally leave the famous old ground

Related Topics: Tommy Stewart, Joe Royle

There are few remaining who hold as many memories here as Joe Royle. Grand Old Tales to be told of the Grand Old Lady. So, as we visit a Goodison Park nearing its end, let's start at the start - and a long voyage embarked upon via the help of a sailor.

'Tommy Stewart lived on our street and he was a tugboat captain,' the man himself explains of his first visit. 'His two sons were my best mates and my dad was an engineer but he was also a musician who played the clubs all weekend. He couldn't bring me so Tommy did.