 Helo ydych chi'n gweithio i chi'n gweithio i'r sefydlu Everton Show, 35 oed, 3 oed. Yn ystod, mae'n ystod i'r 1rhyw prymu Lleodraeth Cymru i'r Hwydusfield Towns John Smith's Stadium. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r Llywodraeth Cymru i'r U.S.M. Finchfarn, a'r Llywodraeth David Weir. Gweithio'n gwneud i chi'n fwrd ac yn ystyried yma i chi'n gweithio'n fawr, comella, i chi'n gwneud i chi'n gwneudio i chi'n gwneudio. Rwy'n gweithio pob gydigol arall, dafyn ei fod yn mynd i chi oherwydd gweithio, bydwb i chi y troi wiltio, ac roi wnaeth hynny'n taeth. Yn dweud, nid oedd i chi'n gwneud i chi i hefyd oherwydd gydigol arall a walch y lludio i'r Lleodraeth Pwyllun. Mae ei wneud i chi ddim ni chi'n gweithio i chi? I'm not working at the minute. I was at Forest and I left just at the turn of the year in January so I'm doing a master's degree at Manchester Metropolitan University and I'm doing a bit of recruitment for helping my club with recruitment as well. So I'm busy and I've got four kids so I've got plenty going on but I'm not full time in football unfortunately at the minute. Are you looking to get back into management culture? I definitely want to be involved in football and I enjoy coaching, I enjoy being around the lads, I enjoy that side of it being out in the grass and trying to help and improve players so that's what I enjoy doing so just waiting hopefully for the right opportunity. It's such a precarious business though isn't it? It is and you get used to that once you stop playing and you become a coach you become involved in the other side of the game. I realise how temporary it can be and how quickly it can go from doing well to perceived as not doing so well and things change very quickly in football now and there's no longevity in any coaching positions or especially at the first team level. You were good at St Park on Monday night for the Newcastle game. It was a hard earned win wasn't it for Everton? One that we needed. Yeah and Newcastle are a tough team to play against you know they'd won four games on the bounce, they had a lot of confidence, they've got some good players and you know a top manager in Rafa Benitez so it's a difficult game to win and Everton found a way to win which is really really important. You know those games are difficult and you know the habit of winning is a good habit and Everton are settled now, you know the backfords settled, the goalkeepers settled and you can see the team starting to develop and I think there's definitely positive signs moving forward. Ian Snowden was alongside me in the commentary box as always. He made Phil Jagielke, his man of the match, would you go along with that? I would and I think you know if Jags brings a lot to the team he brings his experience, he brings his knowledge, I think he makes other players better as well around the bitumen I think. As I said the backfords settled now, Bansie's back fit which is great, Seamus' back fit which is great you know and you're adding the young lads in and around them who've got you know the energy and the legs and I'm sure they'll be feeding off the experience that those lads bring so I think I always found you know having settled back for and good partnerships you know goes a long way to be to helping your team to be successful. Well it was a very good win against Newcastle but one of the undoubted highlights of the night came before the game when Everton Football Club had the world's first ever virtual mascot. This fantastic piece of film tells us more. Jag's a blue so this is his dream to be a mascot. Your club that you support is a huge thing so him being able to do it is fabulous. Tonight we have a first, it's the first ever virtual match day mascot. If you look that is Jack, 14 year old Jack inside there who will be controlling the mascot from home tonight. AV1 is a telepresence robot. It works like an avatar so a child that is severely ill and has to stay in bed can control their robot from home and see everything, talk to their friends. Hello. It's quite huge seeing that little robot going out on the field, seeing Jack. I have no words. I mean Phil Jags when he come and he took him and put him under his arm and we heard him saying you know let's go Jack come on and then he was showing him to all the crowds and introducing him to all the other players, all the other mascots. It was just to get a bit choked up because it was just amazing. And that is the virtual mascot experience that 14 year old Jack McLindon will be now seeing at his home in Walton. It's a new technique and I believe it will really catch on. Seeing that you can imagine Jack actually physically doing it and being there and that somebody seeing Jack as Jack and not Jack as the boy in the wheelchair or Jack the boy with the oxygen seeing Jack as the boy and that is just everything to us. Tonight has been absolutely fantastic but it really has been an example of how technology can help a child like Jack be like any other child do something that he wants to do but physically he would be limited in doing that but with the technology he's been able to get out there and be a mascot for the night and have a really fun time. It's fabulous the effort and the time that everyone's put into it has been wonderful. This is a virtual mascot like Jack on the other end of the line life. He wants to finish off for the press conference and if you're listening Jack well done for the one they'll win mate. We don't really see Jack as disabled or need extra support he's just Jack and I think with school and with well child and now with this isolation he has been able to be Jack. Fabulous concept that isn't it? I know it is. It just ticks all the boxes obviously. There's a lot of kids out there who probably are unable to get to the game for unfortunate reasons and I think it gives them a great opportunity to experience what otherwise they probably wouldn't be able to do. Everton consistently get things like that spot on. Everton in the community is a prime example and now going back to when you were a player you always like to get involved in Everton community projects. I think it's part of your role when you come to Everton and you realise that Everton is a community club. The fans are based in Liverpool, the fans are locals and you soon get a sense of that when you come to the club and you've got to buy into it. I think the players who have been successful here understand that and I think that goes a long way to actually bringing on fuel success as well. It's part and parcel of the club being involved in the community and being involved in the city really. Well one of the biggest days in the Everton in the community calendar is its annual golf day. This year's golf day took place at Forby Hall Golf Club last week and here are a few highlights. I used to love the game of golf and having it in the community to do it right as well. We have one every year and it's absolutely fantastic but today you cannot beat this. Everybody is looking forward to it. The course is magnificent Nick and the weather. You can't get better than this. It's such a fantastic initiative that Everton do. We look at Everton as a club and we look at the first team. But when you look behind the scenes, the work that goes on and the hours and the hard work that people put in, you understand why when players come to the club they feel such an affection and it's so hard to leave. And it's not just about the club, it's about the wider community and Everton are very supportive in it and that's why they've won so many awards. You don't win awards unless you're doing great work. It's a fantastic charity. It's still growing in stature. I remember when it was in its infancy to see what it is today is magnificent and it does so much good in not just in Merseyside but even reaching out into the north west at times so it's easy to want to support it. You know, mate, Leon Osmond finished second in the individual awards. Dave, it's clearly benefitting his golf having plenty of time on his hands. Yeah, I saw him at the game on Monday actually so it was good to catch up with him and he was talking about that, he's getting a bit of golf in and it's obviously bearing fruit but I'm sure he'd been disappointed not to be first but I think he's getting plenty of practice. His media career is going well isn't it? Yeah, he's doing well. He's good on the radio which for obvious reasons I think that helps but yeah, he's busy, there's a lot of five lives stuff and he's got a good, he always has, he's had a good understanding of the game and a good interest in the game and you know that's coming to the four Kevco ban also doing a lot. There and it's good to have a couple of Evertonians in and around the media. Laiton Bain's reached a landmark recently when he played his 400th Premier League game for both Everton and Wigan. Some consistency there isn't it? Yeah, that doesn't happen by accident. You can tell Bain's is a great professional, he puts a lot into it. He's had longevity in his career at a really good level both domestically and internationally so that's a fantastic achievement. Everton are lucky to have him, there's no doubt about that. He's a great player and he's a great lad and he's brought a lot to this club and to Wigan over the years. Well that's just about it for part one of this week's programme. Don't go too far away because coming up after the break, plenty more from David Weir. We'll also hear from Idrissa Gay and we'll start the countdown to Saturday afternoon's visit to Huddersfield. Sorry, welcome back to part two just reading David Weir's autobiography there, which is a good read. Did you enjoy putting it together? I did, yeah I must admit I enjoyed it. It is time consuming but you do bring back a lot of memories and you challenge yourself. I'm not the best at remembering small details and games and things so it's interesting when you go back and you actually remind yourself of some of the things you have done in the places you've been and it kind of jogs your memory a little bit. So it's really good to enjoy it. Yours is a really good football story because you didn't take the conventional route into professional football did you? Was that a conscious thing or did it just... I probably wasn't good enough at the time to take the conventional route being honest so I had to find another way of doing it and my way was going to America. Four years scholarship which was great both in terms of football and in terms of life in general. I grew up and I saw the world and I came back probably better prepared to play football. So I came back and then started in Macrea when I was probably 22 years old at the time and first game was against Duncan Fergson, first professional game was against Duncan Fergson. For Falkirk? For Falkirk against Dundee United so every time I see him he reminds me of me. You must have played at a good standard in America? It was, yeah I did well in America actually. All the Americans are athletic, the facilities are great so that really helped me so I developed as a footballer over there and we played at the top level in college. We got to the final four one year and you know we were a successful team and it was a great experience. It's got to travel all over the states and met a lot of good people and still keep in touch with many of them. I'm not overly familiar with the town of Falkirk but it was a big culture shock, a bit of a culture shock to swap America after four years and come back and play for Falkirk. Well I wasn't planning on playing for Falkirk to bonus. I came back with a view of playing professionally, that was my plan and I came back to my home just to get a base and then go and I was actually going to go to Leeds on Trial to hopefully get a contract there but in the meantime waiting for that trial I went to train with Falkirk and I was there a week or so and they offered me a contract so I had the decision to make so I ended up deciding to sign the contract and stayed at Falkirk for three or four years and played a lot of games. You know with hindsight it was a great opportunity. And then you got a good move to Harthead Midlothian? I did, I went through there, the manager who was at Falkirk moved on at Harthead gave me the opportunity, Jim Jeffries to go through there and I had a couple of years there as well. We won the cup which was great, Harthead hadn't won the cup for a long long time and great memories of that and it's actually 20 years this year since we won the cup so there's a reunion plan for that. Gary Nesmouth was in that team as well so. As a teenager? As a baby yeah so it'll be good to see all those lads again as well and you know that's how football time flies and 20 years ago it's scary. Was it always part of your plan Dave to try your luck in the Premier League? Yeah I always wanted to get down to England as I said initially you know I was hoping to go to Leeds on Trial and it never quite worked out but as my career developed I always had the you know one eye on England and the challenge that brought and I started to play for Scotland when I was at Harthead and playing against lads we were playing in England you hear the stories of the grounds that we were playing against and the things that were happening down in England it was an exciting league and I'd been in Scotland for five six years so I probably needed a change. And it probably helped that Walter and Archie knew all about you anyway even before they signed you they knew what they were getting? I think so yeah I'd played against them obviously when they were at Rangers and I knew them as well I knew I was getting good people and I knew I was getting people you could trust and I was a Rangers fan as well so to come down and work with Walter and Archie who were Rangers lads. The legends was a great opportunity but you know Everton as a club was enough for me but the fact that they were there was a big bonus. You talked to Everton straight away didn't you? I did I loved it I was excited at the prospect of coming down I felt really lucky to get the opportunity I knew Everton were a you know a historically a massive club I enjoyed the city I loved the city I still do and it was a great fit for me I think you know Scottish lads coming down to English clubs I think there's some clubs suit them better and I think Everton's definitely one of those because of the nature of the club. Some exciting times weren't they? There was yeah it was at the start it was difficult you know there was challenges in terms of staying in the league so that was difficult and then obviously we started looking towards the other end of the league and had some great experiences some really good seasons and you know a couple of adventures in Europe as well so there was a lot going on and you know behindside eight years and probably close to 250 games it was a massive part of my career. I loved talking to the 2004-2005 lads about that season because we got some early momentum and just carried it on. We did yeah we kind of we never were favourites really to finish where we finished we were never really everyone always thought we'd drop away and everyone you know kind of talked us down so there was a real sort of solidarity among the group to prove people wrong and to try and achieve what we felt we could achieve and you know to finally get that place and to qualify for what we qualified for I loved Liverpool was a you know that was a massive thing for the group and you know a great deal of satisfaction for everyone. I would like to recall the previous summer when we were in the process of losing Wayne Rooney and David Moyes really galvanised everybody that was left and that trip to Houston in Texas was the start of it wasn't it that's what the lads tell me. Yeah it was and you know we're still talking about that now you see you know you're still bumping the lads who were on that trip and you know you just have these times when things fall into place and there's obviously a little bit of luck involved but you've got to give the manager a great credit. For organising that and you know we went over there I've obviously had experience in America before I know you know how much you can enjoy it and how much is available there and you know the facilities were fantastic the social side of things were fantastic. The lads really bonded as a group and got to know each other and I think that was definitely the start of the success for that season. We saw Phil Jagielke walking out with a virtual mascot before something you never did but I know you were fiercely proud to be the captain of Evan. I was it was a great honour even now you go back and you know the captain's table and you see your name up there and it's you know the other names that are associated with Evan and being captain of clubs like that and I've been fortunate to be captain of most clubs I've been at at some stage so that's always nice but you know it's a great honour to be captain of Evan and the Premier League and successfully as well which is important to be involved in some good results some good games and you know and with some top top players. Well let's bring things right bang up to date it's Huddersfield Town versus Everton at the John Smith Stadium on Saturday afternoon with his take on that one let's hear now from Idrissa Gay. It will be not easy for us because in our way we don't have a good record now we just have to try and change it and we start maybe this weekend. David Wagner has done a great job there but they are still not safe can that make this game even more difficult because they are desperate for the points? Of course because there is not a lot of game now less and they will try to win this game and we will try to win this game too so it will be a hard game we have to be prepared because we just play on Monday now. Less day recovery we have to be ready for this game and don't think it will be easy for them. In terms of the end of the season do you feel you have to have a strong end so that you can build for next season? If we finish good this season it will be good for our mind and like you say to start building for the next season this season it's not still finished we have to finish at the best way we can. We know we have not the season we thought now football is like that sometimes it's hard sometimes you want something and you want it sometimes not so this time we just have to finish good and hopefully the next season will be better. For Huddersfield Town their remit at the start of the season I would imagine was let's hang around let's make sure we are in the Premier League next season. I think any team coming out of the Premier League in the teams this year have done well so far in order to be where they are so their remit will be to stay in the league and they look like they have a good chance of doing that. They have had some good results haven't they? It was the same last season they really pulled some results out of the bag in the championship and they weren't really tipped to get up last season as well so they've obviously got something. They've got a good manager, they've got a style of play, they've got a good work ethic around them so they've been successful and you've got to give them great credit for that. It will be a tough game on Saturday, Everton's first Premier League visit to the John Smith Stadium and Everton's away form has been a wee bit patchy this season just two wins and they will have expected more. Definitely and I think the manager has been very clear in terms of that scenario they need to improve and I think they have done recently. I think there's shown signs of improvement and it's obviously an area they need to work on but there's been improvement in the league position. You forget how precarious it was I think when Sam came in, how difficult it was and how worried everyone was at the time so I think to be wherever and are now and there's still improvement there. I think everybody will agree with that but Everton are in a good position now. So what do you do now then Dave? Do you just have to wait for the phone to ring? Is that what happens when you want to get back into management? Yeah I don't think you can wait for the phone to ring, I think you've got to get out and about and I'm doing a masters degree I'm studying which I'm really enjoying. I'm watching a lot of football, I'm helping a club with recruitment as well so I'm busy. I've got four kids as well who all play football and so I've got to run around with them as well so I'm not just sitting around waiting for the phone to ring. I'm trying to get busy and get out, meet people, see what's going on and try and educate myself a little bit as well. Your boys played for Wiggins first didn't they? It was kind of dropped into the first team in the Czech trade trophy so he got a bit publicity which I wasn't really happy about because it was kind of a little bit ahead of his time but he's doing well and he loves it and I'm happy with him. We wish him well, we wish you well too. 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