 Welcome to Toffy TV, it's Everton versus Gormaria in the Sport Payser Cup. It's the big one, Baz! It's the big one, come on! We can put it alongside the Melbourne Cup trophy and the Everton versus Everton Chile trophy. Oh, whatever that was. It's just, yeah? It's a chance for silverware. Of course it is. No, listen, what it is, is an opportunity for, you know, a real hard work and bunch of lads to come to Goodersham Park, experience something they will never have experienced before, maybe never experience again. For that reason, I think it deserves the respect of a match preview. And hopefully as many people get into Goodersham Park, as possible to watch this game, because I think that's the most important thing. So some people, this might just be an annoyance or an inconvenience or whatever, but you know what? This team won a competition, got to the final, won the game, got over here and we deserve to pay them the respect. I think, yeah, most definitely. Also history in the making, isn't it? I mean, over the first 30s, the African team to play a Premier League team in England. And like you said, you know, we were lucky enough to be the Anno Finch fans, some of them shot and trained it. The series about it, the well-off for it. Definitely. There were four million journalists with them. Yeah. So it's a massive deal in Africa. It's a big thing for Sport Pays, yeah? It is, yeah. So, you know, from an Everton perspective, it's an opportunity to give play, because it's the first team fixture, or that's what it's being agreed in the sponsorship. It's an opportunity to give people who haven't been playing a game. Well, it doesn't matter whether it's... It's against it's a game of football, it could have some park, you know. We've got the opportunity to play. I mean, the man that's here already, in his press conference before Brighton, talked about getting me into playing in it. So that's a good solution. So it's an opportunity machine and for, what, five minutes of the weekend. So it's a chance for him to get a game ahead of Chelsea. And then there's lots like Benny Benningamy, who come back from injury. James McCarthy. He's fit, James McCarthy, Leighton Baines hasn't played for a while. Then you've got the players like, you know, Snidlin, who hasn't been getting in, and Dowell, and... Virginia. Yeah, Virginia. And then Tom Davis, who needs games, Dominic Calvin. Yes. 100,000, yeah. So there's all of these, you know, to... When you actually break the side... Luckman. Luckman, when you break the side, that's what it could be. I'm probably the team I played last year in the Premier League a lot. So, you know, and that's without, I mean, I don't know how, how much of it do you want to make with the African connection? But you would have thought that maybe Ghana might get on the pitch for 15 months. I don't know. Yeah. Because I don't know what Marco Silver's thinking will be in that. But from our perspective, going, going to the game and for the fans, going again, it'll be an opportunity to see where, where other players are up to and still have a decent side to watch. So who should we be looking out for in the Goal Mario team, but... Just all of them. They're all good. They're all, they're all, they're all working at the same level. Yeah. Yeah. And it's going to be... We've got an English coach out in the Israelis. He's really proud of the team for coming up. You know, as I said, it's, it, you know, I think, you know, we spoke to Yicuba when he, he was saying, you know, it's a brilliant chance for some of these players. It's going to be a physical game saying not too physical, we hope. But, you know, they'll be taking the occasion really serious. We played them last year and they're friendly, friendly away, didn't we? When Rain Rooney scored that goal and Dal scored an equally won the goal. And on that day, they really, you know, really tested us. Obviously, different circumstances. But, you know, they've worked hard to get in. I think what's different is that we're used to. Players from West Africa and Northern Africa, they're the power bases, obviously, of African football. And we're used to them. And this is a team from Eastern Africa and not too many teams or certainly players. I don't think I've broken through from that side. It's not a, you know, it's different equations, you know, in terms of set-up and stability and those kind of things. And there's no access to there in terms of you've had, you know, North Africa, West Africa, the roots out of there into European clubs and stuff. So if East Africa isn't renowned as much for producing players, there's got to be a break-through point somewhere. And for them, this will be the showcase to kind of, you know, to come over here. It's called, listen, it's called their imagination. Like Yikubi was saying, it's a big thing for them. The proud and people back in Africa, you know, delighted that they're glad to get the opportunity. Just on a bigger point of view, I think, you know, we went over to Africa last year and obviously with Sport Pays as our sponsor and with Stephen Pinar as an ambassador with Yikubi, having obviously that link up as well. He does a lot of work in Africa, you know, representing Everton as well through Sport Pays' brand. I think it's an opportunity, you know, to make Everton's name a little bit more, more synonymous with, I don't know if you, the Premier League's obviously a big thing in Africa. And it's weird because we talk about Africa as a one thing. It's a huge continent with loads of different things. But I think that, again, that's a problem we face, is that we look at it as one big thing. But it's an opportunity for Everton to start laying down roots with the likes of Pinar, with the likes of Yikubi, with the sponsor, by playing these games and saying, you know, we're here as the, I wouldn't say the team, of Africa, but certainly starting, you know what? If you want a team to support, we've got links with the continent, we've got players, we've got ex-players, players currently, you know, and be a little bit, I don't know, just a little bit more forward thinking on that. Listen, we're trying to grow our global brand. You know, the way Sport Pays are trying to grow in Europe, we're trying to grow in all continents, like the America, Asia, Africa. We've been over there and played last year, we've seen how the teams received and treated there, and, you know, we've seen all the stuff on Everton TV, of the, you know, when they were cooking and when they were getting received and meeting people, meeting the kids, seeing, like, how they welcome Yannick Balassie, got people like that. So, you know, we've still got, we've got Umani Asir, we've got Ghana, you know, Ghana playing the well cup for Senegal, scored the other week in the international show. You know, you're right to Everton, it's about spreading, from our perspective, spreading our name. We've got strong links with African players in the past, Namakachi, Joseph Yobo, Stephen P, and so, to name but a few, you know, Yikuba, of course, as well. So, you're right, it's about that, it's about how much can we get our name around, can we make young African kids go, I like that, Everton, or... The big thing they'll do is we'll put Everton's name there, be it through Gomaria, won't it? Like it's done with Gomaria for us, didn't know them till we played them, so, you know, the second time we're going to play them. And that's how we have to look at it, we have to look at Everton, no, two-fold, at least, you know, we're asked to, we have to look at it and go from a playing perspective. It's a, you know, you don't normally have friendlies at this stage, but it's an opportunity. Well, you know what, growing up, we did though, didn't we? We had the PSV. Yeah, yeah. They had the PSV. Guy in Munich, I remember PSV. PSV was for the, for the Floyd lights, because it was Philips, I remember that. Romario played. Romario. I remember that. Guy in Munich, we played. Guy in Munich. Mark Hughes was on loan from Barcelona. Didn't he score for Bayern? I think he did, yeah. I think we beat them 3-1. 3-1, yeah. So we did have these kind of things, obviously, they're not very odd. I just think that, as I said, I think, while everything is good at the moment, we're all happy. I just want a vehicle to some park. I want to go and watch Everton play full team. So from that point of view, that's a reason to be there. I think the other, and just on that, is it'll be interesting, because we've seen, Bernard, and we've seen the Charles, and Sigurds, and we've seen how they've taken Silver's tactics forward. Now, if this is almost a second team, shall we say, with a couple of ones? Can they replicate it? Because that's ultimately what you're looking at, because at some stage, we're going to have suspensions and injuries, so players are going to drop out of form, and you're bringing the same type of play, or a player that's coming in, who can do the same job as what your faith seems to be. Okay, the level of opponent, we don't know, because obviously, we'll have to see what it's like, but it's about that. And good teams are able to rotate players and still play in the same way. So that's why I'm interested. Yeah, and it's a great opportunity for, I've got tickets for myself, for my dad, my lot, seven quid for the three of you know, parents, for kids, and... I just think, and I genuinely mean this, I honestly think that the team we're playing deserve to run out at Godusan Park, and to be a decent crowd, and a decent atmosphere, and for them to feel welcome, because I just think they've worked so hard to get here, not just as players, but obviously as a club, and for the coach to get them here, and it's just football in a hole, is that I would like them to be going back, just thinking that was brilliant, that the playing for them, to that crowd, and they give us respect. I'd like to think that, that's how people thought about our football club, is that we turned up and appreciated this set of footballers. So I hope people do. I've got a feeling there's gonna be a big walk up for this game. I think the extra... So if you're going, I don't know, get your tickets online straight away, because I've got a feeling it's a seven o'clock kick-off, and all that's gonna make it a little bit more difficult for people, but I've just got a feeling, like six o'clock round of Godusan tomorrow, there's just gonna be mass queues at the box office. So get your tickets early, that's all I'm gonna say. Yeah, because at the end of the day, you will, tomorrow you'll go. Yeah. I haven't a playing sign, and it's the first team, and it's a fiver, or if you've got a couple of kids, seven quiffy, it's like a couple of kids, you know. It might be the first opportunity to take your kids to a night game at Godusan Park, because it'll be start at seven. You know, you'll be finished by nine. It's a little bit hard as well, I mean, because like, nice season ticket. You know, my lads isn't like next to me, so I can sit with them properly tomorrow and things, like that, you know, where they're coming, but it is gonna be, you know, I think you're right if we can, as many people can go, because they do, they do kind of do whatever, but I always have that thing of, and I always think this replace as well, is like, I want them to go away from everything, and go, boss club down, and then it stays in the red, that is a good club shop. That's what I want. I'm gonna be good if, but obviously, you know. That's what I want, yeah? That's what they'll go, so, if you can, get down there, you know, to be fair, for a five or all, you're really giving up at your time, isn't it? Really? That's all you're really giving up. And it's for some people, it's the way of the games, but obviously, if you can't afford it, you wanna go and see us while we're winning, and we might win a cup. Ha, ha, ha, ha. No, but it's like, I think it's good. 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