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Got some great writers on there, Everton, I've got Paddy Boyle and Greg O'Keefe too, excellent local writers so you know the stories coming straight from the heart of everything that's going on, they've got a podcast as well, glad tidings, see what they did there, and they've got good writers for all sports as well, loads of football as I said, some great sources but other sport as well, a lot of American sports where it started from there, no pop ups, just good stories, no messing about, so if you want to do that, the link is in the description and we're going to be talking about one of those stories that they've been writing in the last week or so, it is how Everton have been coping under isolation under the COVID-19 isolation situation, obviously a couple of weeks ago now Everton revealed that one of the players had symptoms, and it's that, I'd isolated, there's been nothing since then, there's been no confirmation who the player was or whether he had it, I imagine he didn't have it, but obviously that meant that Everton were one of the first teams to reveal that the Premier League obviously was halted a couple of weeks ago and since then obviously we've been coming up with all kinds of theories and speculation on when it's going to come back and how it's going to come back, but people forget this middle part where football is what you're used to having a daily routine, going into fringe farm, training, going home, eating the right things, doing all that kind of good thing and then being in good habits, suddenly they're less to their own devices and some of these players are young internationals who, someone like Richard Allison is maybe stuck in a flat in wherever he lives and he's got his dogs for company but it must take its toll and that kind of mental side of not doing what you do everyday, that routine Llywodraeth, it's a routine, Llywodraeth, since he was 16 isn't he, you know and obviously you mentioned people like Llywodraeth, I think he's a house isn't he in Crosby with his garden because he's out there having shots with his Brazil top on, but yeah, the daily routine obviously, you know, we're trying to talk about this just to, because there is a lot of stuff going on in the world currently with the pandemic him, but there's another side to it. It's football, it isn't important in general of course it isn't and that's why the stories are at the time and all are a barmy at the moment, but it is important for a lot of people just when things come back down and this stuff will have to run, will have to be twinsracked almost with what's going on so that when it's time for these lads to come back and start training again, you know, as things ramp back up then they have to be as fit as they can be. This will be of course, the longest break most of them will have had probably ever had since they became professional footballers, that's what it's looking like now and you write up the players there who will just be on their own, you know, if you think of people like Moise Keane who's only just come to this country, who's only been here for a fact, well no, been here about 89 months now hasn't he and you know he still isn't like fully settled in the evident team and stuff like that he's in and out and young lads only come in and out. He's 20 Italian outside of his own country where it's had a terrible time so he'd have that effect and there's lots of young players like that, you know, we've seen Mason Holgate talking about he went back home to live with his mum and dad while this is going on, you know, he's been bullied about upsetting his mum by leaving dishes in the kitchen and stuff and facing the wrath of his mum but so it's okay, well it's better for people like that but obviously for the people like you say, like Rutialys, I know he's got some family with him and Moise Keane I guess. I guess he's got a friend or some family with him as well but it's not the same, he's going in training every day at Finch Farms so I haven't had to come up with, I'm quite sure every Premier League or every football club has ways to keep these lads not only fit but also motivated as well and they're all having to wear their bras, the GPS bras, the investing, they're having to wear that because they've all been given individual training programmes which again the article talks about. They've been given them, we've seen a lot of Theo Walcott on Instagram or whatever doing his workouts with kitchen utensils and stuff like that in the garden but I quite like that about Theo because he could have easily gone, look at my plush gym with all of this gear that costs £100,000 but he's not, he's doing the plank with tins of soup and things like that and I thought that was quite cool because he's showing people over at home, look you can do what I'm doing, I'm not doing anything massively fancy, of course there'll be all the other time years but I thought that's quite important because we're all looking for stuff, if people are stuck at home you see some Theo Walcott who's a Premier League footballer doing this kind of thing. It's a bit of humility. Of course when you think I can do that I've got, if you can get tins of food and stuff but you know I've got that there and I've got kitchen utensils and I can do the plank and I can do sit-ups and stuff like that so that is good but on the bigger picture the key thing from this is all of that data is fed back in to the evidence, back room staff and they're able to monitor what people are doing in terms of programme wise and where they are at the fitness levels because that's it. It's just come to a stop hasn't it, you know that the way I'm expecting it. And your body will just stop as well, it doesn't take much to lose that fitness, I know these are honed athletes but one of the reasons why they will be getting monitored so closely is because it can just leave you and if you're sitting at home and you can't do that kind of exercise obviously these lads are not special in terms of being able to go out or go and do anything else, they're under the same you know lockdown precautions as the rest of us so it doesn't take long to just pile the pounds on and lose that little bit of exit. I know listen they'll be back before they know it and they'll be fine and those little wins but depending on when they come back and depending on how long they have from when they do come back to when they have to start playing that all has to be ready to go. You know that exit, you know that as you just saying there, if they're putting, if they're getting tracked at least now the backroom staff can tailor those. Well probably tailor programmes for them while they are on lockdown, you know you should be doing more of this, can you do more of this, what have you been doing there to make that happen? Can you do more of this for us and then when they do get back it's like like we've got to do this and we've got to do this and we've got to do this but you've been better than him so you don't have to do that, you do extra this and you do more of that. It just shows you now how disport has just completely gone up to a completely different level now. It's on a totally different level but they've got all of that stuff, I mean Walcott's been one who's been using the peloton bikes. We can have preloaded thing work out on it, different thing. The article says Mrs Melanie introduced them to it and he's obsessed with it but you can get all kinds of programmes done, a few of the players have got those. We've seen a video of Dominic Calderloo and I think last week doing a gym work, lots of gym work, I mean he looks like he's in incredible shape anyway but you don't do something for two or three, you matter how fit you are, your body stops. It's why players will have like a month off after a major tournament come back and look sluggish for the first few weeks. I mean we can remember when football has used to come back as stone to stone overweight and that's why the first couple of weeks of training. I remember last year Williams was belly a few years ago. We remember the first two weeks of pre-season training where all the sand dunes running and all the long distance and all the army camps and all the throwing up, for that very reason because people would just let themselves go and maybe their fitness in the first place wasn't great but we've seen in games how many times you watch the game and go, he's not fit in, he's not fit today, there's something off where they've been out for a little bit and brought back and we've seen it with Andre Gomez against Chelsea and we've seen how far off the pace he really is compared to players who are fully at it. Yeah, he's technically there and ability wise he's there and he's able to get on the ball and still pass the ball around but in terms of being up to Premier League speed and getting above the pitch and putting tackles in and being able to just run up and down, he's well off it because, and he's been training every day. So it shows you that if you lose, you know, the intensity, that's what it is. I mean, the thing I read last week Mason Holgate was saying he's got a battle with the biscuits in every time he goes in the kitchen because it's just there, the kind of board because they're not being able to do what they normally do and go and have a cup of tea and there's a biscuit there and he's like, I've got to remember that I can't just keep eating them because I want to, do you know what I mean? Where there's probably, what he said was and he's like, is that when you fit and you're training every day, you can have a few of them but don't do anything to you, don't do anything to you but he's still doing his training but it's not at the same intensity so the play, they've got to watch that. You know, there's a lot, I think for footballers and this isn't a big thing, you know, bleating about footballers, they have or they have, there's people in much ways, things that we're just talking because it's, this is a football channel for the start. They put, you know, they used to play golf and stuff and now a few of them are running at the moment to go, you know, they're using their daily allowance of exercise to go running to try to keep that up. But it's all the tactical stuff and it's all the intense training that they're missing out on and this is why sometimes it's hilarious when people go, they'll just be able to come back and be ready to play in a week and it's like, and now Carlo Antillotti, there was a thing on our website the other day, he'd done an interview with Carella Dellsport, Dellsport in Italy and he was like, you know, players, I remember with my land, Caffee come back and played within 24 hours and was fine and the qualifier, you know, these players are fitting. And you're like, but if they haven't trained for six weeks, say, you know, before you go back to training, they're going to need something, the resources, he might be saying, I think, but his backroom stuff and physical side of it, trainers will be gone. And footballers will still have that same intensity where they'll want to work us, still work us hard in a game. Imagine that Charleston was like a little bit, wasn't quite on it, but it would still put the same effort in. But then he'll pull a muscle then, you'll get an injury by trying to do something because his body's not completely ready for it. So, you know, it works both ways, doesn't it? You know, the physical side and the mental side as well. The mental side, I think, will be just as tough if not even tougher for some of these lads. Yeah, you said that before they'll have to do with a wife and a family, particularly, and this is something the article does mention, particularly the younger players. And what I mean by that is like the scholars, you know, the 17, 18-year-olds who were a wife from home, who are from the North West have moved here and maybe didn't get home in time, you know, before the self because they didn't know where they were up to. And a few of them are still up here and digs or whatever. And the club, I mean, the club has been good in terms of, and I'm sure every club does this, but being in touch with them lads and making sure they're okay and how they feel. Because the mental side of the game is massively important. For someone like the Charleston who is a little bit older than that, you can see what he's like. You know, we've had Andre Gomez making films for himself in the garden to keep, you know, not early on. We've got the Charleston as a kid on his out every day doing, you know, playing football on his own and as like a little kid. You know, it's like my nine-year-old in the garden celebrating many scores. Because for them lads, it's a way of life, isn't it? You know, they want to be out training. We've had the stuff, you know, Domino Calvert losing and Jordan Pick for a feefer, you know, on feefer all the time and popping up playing games against people who are online because they want to away from the training. They've got to keep their minds active. There's the WhatsApp group, which is mentioned where the players are constantly trying to have that banter to keep it going. You know, we've had Carlo Anciolotti talking about what he's doing. He loves Netflix and walking on. Because there's the beach, you know, camping all the statues, Anthony Gormley and all of that kind of stuff. So they are trying to keep their minds active. But suppose as it goes on and on, like I said before, it'll be the longest break some of these players have ever had from football. You know, since they came into the professional side of it at the age of 16. It's unprecedented, isn't it? At the end of the day, it's fully unprecedented. That's the tough part, I imagine, for these people is, I mean, you know, everyone's facing that battle at the moment. Everyone, no matter what you're doing, whether you're at home, whether you've got a work, you know, obviously even 10 times, 15 times, million times worse, even the NHS in you on the front line, you know, it's obviously a different game then. But for footballers, certainly, we look at them and we just think they've got it all. But they've got it all in. They've got it all, but they've also, they love this. You can tell how football, which has got to be the biggest one for us. Because you can just tell how much he wants to be part of things. You know, he loves, he's always putting videos on. He's always, you know, you see him having, you know, doing the FIFA, as you said, when he gets a chance, he'll fly on to his family. And we've seen that with other players from other teams, I think. Sons flew on to South Korea, which is mad. Williams gone back to Brazil. Williams gone back to Brazil, so. But, you know, it's something obviously you haven't done, it's probably gone too late now. But it is what it is, and hopefully. I mean, the one aspect of it, that I suppose has been highlighted, a positive side of it, has been deeply family stuff that haven't done anything in the community. You know, the phone calls to people who are lonely or people who are ill. I mean, that's between, you know, we've seen Carlo Antelotti do it, we've seen Moise Keane do it, we've seen Michael Keane, we've seen Mason Holgate, you know, people like that have phoned people and let them know. I think Bill Ken Knight's done one as well, and then he's brought it back to them. So, the club have reached out to them, people. And then there's obviously the Blue Mile stuff, which covers Amfield, Walton, Carchdale, Everton, which are for vulnerable people. And the club have made sure that, you know, few parcels have gone out to these people who are vulnerable. And, you know, what people forget in this is, in that area, it's one of, like, the most deprived areas, that ward, those wards, 60% of the kids in those wards rely on free school meals or breakfast club on the scene. A couple of people, you know, a couple of divvies on Twitter, ripping people who need free school meals and stuff like that. These are vital to these people in their lives, and the fact that they're able to, and these people are able to deliver food parcels and just make sure that vulnerable people who are maybe on their own, they've got someone to chat to, or they're able to get that stuff. That's a massive part of what is brilliant about our football club, making sure that they do give access to those people and help those people who are vulnerable. Because, yeah, it's footy, and we all love it, and we all miss it. But, like I said before, it's a game at the end of the day. But the other side where the football club can't touch people and help people is with the food parcels and the company side of it in terms of conversation with those people and helping the kids to something I saw when I worked in social care. If you're not in that situation, you kind of take it for granted that you've got food and you can go and do whatever, you've got bedding and you don't clean bedding and you've got this, that and the other. When you actually work in that field and you go out and sit with your own eyes, you probably do, you're shocked like that, a first you're at, and then obviously it just becomes normal. So, it's great that our football club can go out and help those people, and especially in this, like you said before, unprecedented times, unbelievably strange and worrying times for a lot of people. For all of us, it's scary. We've all got people who we've said that before. We've got vulnerable people in our family, so it's very, you know, and that's right the way across the board, right the way across the world. It's a real strange time. Yeah, and as you mentioned here, the stuff with the Blue Family stuff is, at the end of the day, it's such a small little thing, but, you know, it goes so far. Those things are just go so far, whether it be, like you said, players getting in touch with fans, the club doing little things like halting the season tickets, you know, all those little things. Even like Saturday afternoon, having the game on, that's live and things like that, and allowing, you know, we did a watch-along as just a way of just having a chat about the games, you know what I mean, because you're watching the social interaction with it, and obviously everything, everything is doing it very professionally in a way, by having like that and doing the commentating. But there's also like that social side of it where you're like, well, people are talking about this. Ultimately, what football does is it brings people together, it gives people a reason to be together. Now, that's like the most basic thing. You're seeing people now, you know, we talk to lads, like Kayn, who goes on, you know, goes on Hans Tors, and he's like, I'm just missing going on the match, I'm missing being with my friends and missing that experience. It's not about football, it's the thing that's around it. It's the experience, it might be the... Like Derek, he was in a caro, he goes, he gets out to go, rumats and sees people. He goes on a coach from Southport of Godderson as a good shat, might be the only time of the week he has that shat, and then after the game, as a shat a barri, come on and talk to us on it about it when we do our live shows. You know, football is a... For me, football is get to see members of my family, some of my friends, you know, every couple of weeks or whatever. The bit in the middle can be just forgotten about. Five, ten minutes after the game, depending on what the game is, you don't want to be like that, you want to love it, but it can be, you know, and that's what... Something like that, where, as a saying, putting a live game on is people are talking about it, remember, I've never seen this, that's mad, isn't it? And you get that social interaction where we've all been missing. So the club doing that, the club, as I said, having people ringing up, people... You know, the bedtime stories, little things like that, they're all... They're all people like... Oh, good, Llyga Deane, by the way, doing that. One of our English players going abroad and reading a bedtime story and French or Spanish or whatever, it was brilliant. So it is brilliant, right, the club, fantastic, that kind of thing, absolutely fantastic, and if you can do one little thing that helps people, some people then, outstanding, because like I said before, this is unprecedented times and very scary times for a lot of people. Did you take anything else out of the article just before we finish? No, it's well put together article, loads of... I don't know what it is, but it's a behind the scenes thing for people to just go, when you've got time and you know, you sat there to read and just have a look at how. Because it is... You know, football, like you said before, it's important to a lot of people. It's the most watched game and the biggest sport in the world and for a lot of people it's... I don't think we have to apologise for that though. No, no, it's not what I'm saying so that's going, that is a big chunk of people's lives. The health thing is the logistics of whether it's okay to bring it back and people panicking to try to get it back quickly. No, we'll bring it back when it's safe and we're safe to do so because it doesn't mean that we have to not mention it and not speak about it and not discuss great things we've seen and hopefully great things we'll see again in the future. They're all important part of it, aren't they? And what the article does is it peels the cake and back a little bit and goes, look, all this is going on. You know, we've seen things like Danny Donoughy having his lad doing yoga stuff saying, look, you can do this. It's all basic stuff, it'll make you feel good. We've had the People's Grub on the list the other day saying, look, this is how you can have a nutritious meal like a player and bladi bladi and do it this way, prepare it. So all of them are good little insights from the club who would accept that they have to come up with stuff as well to try to keep people interested and also give people a bit more information and give people something to watch because ultimately a lot of people are stuck at home. Yeah, they're playing their part. Exactly, so it's all a big, you know, a big thing that I couldn't think of the right word for it, but we're all part of it. We're all part of the Blue Family. And the wide football family is supposedly, if you want to call it that, you know, because we get a lot of people watching as we're on Evertonians as well. So it is, we're all in it. We're all in this together as a high school musical, so to guess. Yeah. I've got Disney Plus having ice on the man. It's not something I've ventured into. But that's up to you. That's fair enough. Give it a couple of weeks, lad. No, it's a chance. There you go. Let us know your thoughts on that. 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