Football FanCast columnist Joe Jennings wonders if the time has come for both Liverpool and Everton fans to swallow their pride and embrace the possibility of a groundshare.

It is a debate that will always be dictated by the heart and not the head, emotion over practicality, passion over perspective. But if you bear in the mind the stadium issues faced by both Everton and Liverpool currently, is the idea of a groundshare a proposal that could soon resurface as a feasible option?

Some will argue that in today's economic and environmental climate how can having two stadiums that are mainly untouched for over 300 days a year be warranted when just one would be sufficient. Many would suggest to take an end each, build on the neutral Stanley Park in the heart of the two time-honoured areas and agree to major public payment from the council and North West Development Agency and construct something of real intercontinental worth in terms of design and facilities that would make the City of Liverpool proud.

The debate around groundsharing in Liverpool often focuses on the enmity between supporters being the stumbling block. Without doubt this is a chief issue with neither die hard Blues or Reds really wanting it. Yet there is also a no-nonsense issue to be measured; markedly the upshot of English weather. European clubs have conveyed to a certain degree that sharing a stadium can work, though a drier climate makes certain that the pitch does not suffer too much. Our climate would simply not allow two games a week being played over the season without substantial turf damage - period.

Are we as supporters both guilty of small mindedness, do we never look at the bigger picture? Liverpool supporters like to scorn us on many levels, but do they remember who sold Anfield to them? Or, more importantly, who was the first football club in the city of Liverpool?

Neutrals would struggle to see where the complexity of it all stems from. In Merseyside you are not dealing with a run of the mill local sporting rivalry; you are dealing with a full continuum of emotion, assorting from intense passion and, from time to time, blind hatred, to familial love, friendship and camaraderie passed down and built upon through the generations for way over a century.

But maybe, just maybe, deep down, the two bands of supporters still remain as proud of how the collective achievements of the respective clubs have made Liverpool the most successful city in English football - in spite of the obvious challenges that have weighed down the Merseyside area since the rapid decline of Britain's primary industries - as they are of the clubs' individual achievements at the expense of each other.

Liverpool have always dismissed the theory, as have Everton. But is now the time to swallow the pride and really showcase to the world where we both want to go. Is now the time to attempt to reclaim Merseyside's place as the cream of the country? Is now the time to pursue a stadium dream we can be truly proud of, in spite of the sour feeling that sharing with Liverpool would provide?