Everton and Goodison Park have become a focal point in a battle over the future of the iconic San Siro stadium in Milan. The city council this week approved plans to sell the famous ground, the home of both Milan and Inter.

That permission has set in motion a project that will see the site demolished with a new stadium built on the same land.

But one city leader has come up with an alternative idea - inspired partly by the approach of Everton. President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa. wants the clubs to have a new state-of-the-art shared home but is now arguing it should be built next to the San Siro.

Citing the example of the Blues, who rather than raze the Grand Old Lady have turned...