 Welcome to Toffey TV. I am joined by the one and only, Super Kevin Campbell. Lwc yn relaxed, I've got to say, lwc yn chilled. Ke faw ai hefyd? Bears, I'm great, I'm feeling good. Doing plenty of podcasts and stuff online. Just trying to make the most of the situations to be honest. Yeah, it's difficult isn't it? Obviously we've got to just follow what the guidelines are I suppose and try to keep fit which you normally have no problem doing. Lwc yn y great shape again. Yeah, I feel, listen, early doors, I've got my routine together. The training routine and regime and stuff like that. Do I like it? No, I don't like it because I like to be active, I like to be out there, I like travelling and stuff. But we have to play our part, don't we? I've got to say a massive shout of appreciation to the NHS and the care workers and stuff like that. I think Everton have been one of the four bearers in that sort of thing. I've done I think gold mares and myself and some of the other players and ex-players done videos for them. So I thought it would be nice to just say it on here. You know, really appreciate all the work that they do. Yeah, outstanding. I mean they're the real heroes aren't they going in and facing this every single day and hopefully when we come out the other side they will get held in the esteem, they should be held in really rather than seen us. Yeah, that's the big thing isn't it? Some equipment would be nice as well, some proper equipment for them but absolutely right cover raise would be the least they deserve after all this. Anyway, it is such a strange time which we've just been speaking about. We haven't known anything like this in our lifetime everywhere. Football in particular has just come to a complete notice stand still. It's such a weird situation isn't it? Obviously taking what's going on, just put it to one side. Football, I've said this on everything I've done here. Football is not really that important but we're football people so we love it. So it's such a weird time isn't it with no footballer? It is weird but do you know where you say football is an important? I think it is really important. I think what this time is doing is making people realise just how much football means. We know health as well, we do know that and we know with much rather people being healthy as opposed to being ill but there's obviously other components to families and stuff like that where football is the kind of connector and when you don't have that connector what we're doing now we're watching all the old games aren't we and we're doing all the quizzes and we're doing all the other stuff to just keep us involved and keep us connected because we miss it, we really miss it. I miss football desperately and I know the likes of yourselves and the Evatorians and stuff like that. They miss the game so much. Fingers crossed there might be a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully, hopefully. We'll come on to that in a bit but you've had a situation before you joined Everton actually where you had to kind of look after your own training and you were in a little bit of limbo and stuff and I know it's not quite the same as what's going on but it was still you were unable to train with a team. From a motivational point of view of trying to stay fit how difficult was that for you and then how difficult do you think it'll be for the current players now who are trying to do the same? Motivational wise I think it wasn't a problem because I knew if I'm going to get away from that situation at Trabson at the time I know I'm going to have to be fit. If I'm going to be coming back to England like I knew I would I'm going to have to train seriously because I was training three times a day. Obviously it's not the same because you're not training with the team you're not training with the players etc but I was running in the morning I was in the gym when the team were out training and I was training with the under 21. After I was training three times a day or probably three or four weeks then I got the call and then I flew back and it was it was quite ironic when I got back it was I think it was an international break so I had a little bit of time to catch up with the team etc and up my fitness because obviously the game in England is a lot different to how it was in Turkey it was more technical in Turkey but the fitness and the speed of the game was tremendous in the Premier League so you know and obviously once I got to that season and I knew I wanted to stay I went through the same kind of thing again because I wasn't necessarily going back to Turkey so I found myself training alone again you know no team etc running doing all me old running and stuff like that just to keep ticking over until we got it resolved and gladly we got it resolved So how do you think from the current players then we've seen videos of them online you know doing Theo Welcott doing workouts with Tins of Beans and stuff like that and you know Dominic Calvert-Lewin perfecting his six pack and there'll be lots of other players you know Arsenal players have seen doing videos everyone the teams have done a little video of themselves but how it must be such a strange situation for them because the season hasn't come to a natural end there's no getting away and having a holiday and stuff so they're just having to stay fit because they don't know when if the call will come the backing train so it must be such a weird situation for those players Look it's an interesting one because you're not sure whether the season is going to be cancelled or go ahead but what you have to do you have to think on the positive side that you will get the shout and you will be able to finish it so you've got to stay on top of your fitness you've got to stay on top of your fitness not only physically but mentally as well you've got to stay on top of yourself and do the right thing because when you do get back who knows how long the lead up time before the first game is going to be it might be two weeks it might be three weeks but the better you are when you get back into training the easier it becomes to get ready for that first game so I think the players nowadays have been doing really well for themselves using whatever if there's things that have been there for FEO use your things a bit there's not one thing that says you can't use it if you can use it and it will help you fantastic What's it out to these fans in it he must be really frustrated because he's broken into Stokes first team doing really well isn't he scoring goals picked up an injury, come back still scored started scoring again and then is he just going along the same path of just making sure he's ready even when the call comes Yeah it's one of those things where he's so excited to finally get his opportunity and get in the team and look what happens he finds himself on lockdown so he's training like a trooper the great thing is he's got a younger brother now he's full time at Buttson so they're having competitions and they're doing all kinds of things and also his agency that look after in 490 they do an open session on like Zoom I think it is where the trainer goes on and all the different players join in there's one specific for the players and there's one that they can do themselves Excellent, well that's good I mean obviously technology like we're speaking today is a fan so much that they can do this kind of thing without making you sound a little bit older Kev in your day it would have been more difficult It would never have been bad it would never have did I had to do my own I had to do my own fitness etc but now you could have a fitness trainer in America and he could train you over here so great that the technology has moved on and it's probably greater for everybody that the players are keeping themselves bitter so when they get back into training it won't be too long before we can get the game going because we're desperate for it Yeah definitely and just on that that brings me on to the point I know this is obviously such a difficult question and you probably can't answer that anyway in your opinion how soon do you think the realism of football returning is and do you think it will return but behind closed doors certainly for the remainder of the season Yeah but as I think it will return behind closed doors I think May may seems to be probably a start date in May, mid May or whatever solely because contracts finish on June 30 there are certain players who have got a season this is their last season or got a few weeks left and their contract finishes on June 30 so if it goes beyond June 30 they're free agents and any player and his representation worth their weight in gold would have already been trying to sort the player out to move in on July 1 if he's not getting a new contract at his present club so you have to take things like that into consideration as well so I just think given it six weeks you can get nine ten games in six weeks for sure might even be able to get a little FA cup a week in as well get a few teams playing each other so that would be interesting I mean certainly do you think the season will be finished in your opinion? Yeah I really do I'm just riding on the football clubs finishing the season if they don't finish there's going to be law suits going left, right and centre and the clubs miss out on a lot of money and I don't think the clubs as we know now the clubs are losing money so I don't think it's right that they lose out on that money play the games around closed doors as long as it's televised for our fans brilliant and just before I let you go it will be really interesting because if they do say they do return just off the top and they had faced the due and they tried to get those games done by the 30th of June whether it's two three games a week almost to try and finish it do you think there will just be a sure pre-season then or can you see them extending pushing the season back because obviously you've got the Euros now the Olympics next summer as well which have been moved from this summer so that calendar is getting shorter and shorter isn't it yeah now I think the pre-season will be short I think what tends to happen is I think a player is contracted to have four weeks off sometimes the club give them a bit longer because it's a long old season but the players have had some time off the players have had some time off although they keep him fit which is a good thing they've had some time off so probably having four weeks and then coming back into pre-season won't do them any harm I don't think I think the players will be raring to go anyway I don't think they'll want too much time off because they've had a long enough off I've got to say this will probably be since they started playing the longest deep hopefully the longest they'll ever have off in terms of not playing football matches because by the time I think we played Chelsea on something like Marston 9th or something like that and that was the last time we played and we may not play another game until June players don't get that almost three months off unless they're injured obviously so I guess the bodies even though you've said they're training and they keep themselves fit they will have had some down time with the family as well so maybe the batteries will be recharged by then there's been a there's been a people questioning should there be a a winter break should there be a break up to the new year etc well we see what it's like when we have one everybody's going through a crazy without the football so I just think look they've had a break if we can get football going let's get football going because I think the country needs it the country needs the lift even if people can't attend the game just to be able to watch your team and I think what it's going to do as well it's going to give fans a bit more appreciation of the game because you know what mistakes get made but you know what fans want to see their teams playing Evertonians want to see Everton play Arsenal fans want to see Arsenal play it's just the same all round I'm sure we just want football back yeah I think you're right it is a new appreciation and it'll be weird watching the games behind closed doors it won't be the same we know that seeing some of the european games it wasn't the same almost that pre-season feel to it because there's no crowd but it's better than not watching anything I guess isn't it so when it's safe to do so I think it'll give people another focus but the appreciation will finally walk back into that stadium and scream and shout and everything I want to get the goodest of them I want to get the goodest Exactly mate, exactly We love the streets and appreciate it man It'll be amazing they will be good times when we can do it Thanks so much for taking time out your day to join us and have a nice catch up and looking sharp and when this is done to get you back in the studio and do a proper Kevin Campbell Everton career interview Fantastic, well listen Baz Paired all the guys everybody watching Thanks so much, stay safe, healthy and I look forward to coming back in the studio so we can get that the Kevin Campbell Everton story down Siwbeth, don autism was praising you last week as well he's going to come in as well so she'll be interested in when Hutch comes in as well Brilliant, good lad Hutch great lad and I was absolutely gutted when the club sold him I was sick because we had that connection, brain power football brain If you look at a lot of my goals Hutch was involved, he just knew what I needed and he could deliver most of the time so he was brilliant Underrated as well, Cav Very underrated but hey, you never know If he's in you might want to get me in as well you never know That would be tasty Leave that with us Leave that with us Right Kevin, going to let you go in there I know you're a busy man so you go and do what you need to do Thanks so much for joining us Delighted to talk to you and stay safe Most importantly Cheers Baz, thanks, much appreciated Come on you blues So a big thanks there to Kevin Campbell for joining us today for that catch-up Make 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