 Hello everyone and welcome to this week's Everton Show. We're off to the South Coast on Sunday. It's a first competitive visit to Brighton-Holl-Valbion for Everton since April 1983. So look ahead to this weekend's game, and joined by Ian Snowden and by this fella. What's from Osmond? It's Osmond! Highting gets the return ball, now it's Leon Osmond to Benoit! Osmond, lovely shot, lovely goal. Leon Osmond wraps it up for Everton in stoppage time. Oswie, welcome to the Everton Show, you're back on the telly again. I am, yeah. It's a pleasure to be here Darren, thanks very much. You seem to be enjoying it and it's going very well. Yeah I am, to be asked to come back and give opinions and voice my concerns or admiration of things on the TV is great and I'm happy to do it. Taylor made for it, wasn't he surely? Well he was, but I had my reservations. When I was seeing him at Finch Farm messing about with people's phones and messing about with the clothes I thought I'd never see Oswie on TV being serious, but he's good at it. He was a guy I looked up to, I thought if he could do it, anyone could do it. He's doing okay, let's see how he does on the Everton Show. Well now this week we celebrated 10 years of Finch Farm, yes, unbelievably. It's 10 years since we relocated from Bellefield to Finch Farm. Oswie Finch Farm, 10 years of age this week, you were here on day one. Did it take some adjusting for the players or as professionals was it just the case of Bellefield one day, Finch Farm the next, we've got to get on with it? No, it definitely took some adjusting. Really? The training ground at Bellefield was so compact and tight and everyone was on top of each other and you could stand in the reception and shout someone's name and hear them no matter where you were in the complex. I'm sure Snods did that a few times. But to come here and have it being so open and vast and the things were so spread out it did take a bit of getting used to it, but the facilities here are second to none and once we've been here a while it became home. It's a fabulous place, you loved Bellefield's Snods and we'll speak a little bit more about Bellefield as we go on but even 10 years down the line Finch Farm is still developing, there's still new structures being added, the first team block for example. It's incredible to ask what I'd been used to at Bellefield which was unbelievable. It was a great setup down there but the players here want for nothing. Got a swimming pool which is hard work when you're in the swimming pool, it's not there just for relaxation but all the other facilities and now a new first team block which is absolutely fantastic. I did see a couple of people in there with their kids. Does it make a difference having the 18s, the under-23s and the first team all in the same complex because obviously in your days it wasn't the case? Yeah, I mean for the first team I don't think it really matters that that happened but for the young lads you know having seen that in the other side of the training pitch having that to aspire to, that the journey you need to go on making your way down the building from where you arrive in the academy bit to all the way to the first team part is fantastic and you know I was unfortunate that we've got moved around training grounds in years gone by so to have it all under one roof makes it special. I know what he's talking about there does because even when I was at Doncaster you're aspired to them professionals at Donnie and there's a 16 year old kid like to see the players walk past or yet to go into the dressing room to clean the kit and stuff like that you just think one day I want to be one of them pros kind of things so I know where it's coming from. They want for nothing now do they? Absolutely nothing. I won't want to leave me, I'd come in at 9 o'clock I won't go until 9 o'clock as well. Yeah I nearly got a divorce towards the end of the career I'm going to be honest. But no it is, it's great and as you said the players just want for nothing everything's laid on for them. Must make you feel better as a professional footballer knowing that you do want for nothing or training at the best possible facility. Yeah you know you want to better your game, you want to be the best and you know to do that there's no excuses with you having the best facilities and you know if you want to stay out and train there's all sorts of goals and balls and whatever you may need, whatever you can think of they've got and they will provide for you to try and help you be better. Just quickly how important was it to bring the Bellfield atmosphere as much as possible to Finch Farm? Yeah it was very important and that was what probably took us a little bit longer than normal you know the change over period was a little bit difficult but you know I think it took six months a year maybe two but then you know once we got it it just feels like home again. Well Ozzy was here on day one so was I as a matter of fact let's hear now from somebody else who's been at Finch Farm for the whole ten years the irrepressible, the rascal that is Jimmy Martin. Jimmy Martin you've been here virtually every day for the ten years we've been at Finch Farm it doesn't seem like ten years does it? No it doesn't Darren it's flown over but it's, I've enjoyed it here while I've been here but I still miss the Bellfield the old Bellfields like home from home really won't it? Everybody misses Bellfield don't they? I enjoy it when the lads start talking about the Bellfield days. Well what I miss at Bellfield is the sandwich every day when Mary Alice used to make it it had a big hand mark on it and you don't get that here you know what I mean so I miss Mary because she used to make the best dinners it was either egg and beans or sausage and beans or a jam butty or that was it. Even that's changed Jimmy hasn't it? You go to the canteen now and sometimes there's 30 or 40 people in the queue? Not in my queue it's not like that I just walked to the front and now it's a different menu altogether and it's like being in a restaurant every day you know it's what the players want it's what the food they have and it's just a different world completely. Is it still changing all the time for you? Every day is different every day changes that's what the good thing about the job is every day just changes every day and the staff have got Tony and Sean and Ben there's four of us now where they used to do it all on their own you know what I mean it's just a different place to work. Lovely place to come into though isn't it? Oh yeah I wouldn't give it up for the world I'm nearly 102 as you say and I'm still going so it's just good to work every day. Jimmy Martin's obviously one of the enduring characters of Finch Farm and just following up from what Ozzie said there Snods it's so important to bring these type of people from Bellfield to Finch Farm to create a similar atmosphere as you can. That's I think it's characters in training the players I played with Adrian Heath would have funny lad, Reedy, Dave Watson, Kev Rack, Cliff Kev Sheedy. See if they came to that complex to this complex at Finch Farm it'd be exactly the same they'd still be wanting to take the mickey out of each other still cutting people's clothes up and stuff like that. It's what you make of that dressing room and that's what I really miss in football it is I'm enjoying it I love what I do but see that dressing room from when you get in there to when you leave there's no other place like it is the Ozzie. No none at all but again you know we're talking about incredible players incredible characters there but I personally feel it's the staff that make the place because the players the turnover of players is you know is come and go it happens all the time but the staff tend to stay up for years if you have a good base of staff then they keep the place alive keep the traditions going that's what makes it better but I think you've got to treat them staff exactly like you treat your mates your colleagues Oh I did but Jimmy Martin I can vouch for that but the girls behind the canteen as well have a laugh with them why not they're in the same building they're in the same facilities bring it along with them as well yeah and the more you do that the more it becomes a place that everybody wants to come and work and you enjoy it and if you do that you work better correct and he used to cut people's clothes up hide the phones take the SIM cards out whatever you say I don't think I ever cut people's clothes up I can't argue with the rest not even Ibo's I would like to of course characters are plenty of both Belfield and Finchfarm one of my favourite characters here at Finchfarm was Big Dennis Strackelers who remember him the big Argentinian centre full that David Moyes brought over well earlier this week at Goodison Park I caught up with Phil Neville and he too loved the bones of Big Dennis he wasn't the greatest player I've ever played with but I tell you what he was a brilliant lad around the place and no one will ever forget his goal against Chelsea here you know when he goes past John Terry asked the goal and sticks it past Peter Chet who's coming out we won that game it was a brilliant game and you know I think down the year you think of Amacatch, you think of Strackelers this club loves the centre fold with a bit of character and Dennis had that in abundance his mates had a bit of character didn't he Royston Drenther as well was he now he's a film star or something now he was certainly someone that had unbelievable talent he'd just come from Rio Madrid I think at times he still thought he was playing with Ronaldo, Zidane and Figo but he was actually a character around the place and someone that he used to call me grandpa every single day because I was obviously coming to the end of my career and we had a laugh with but a wasted talent you look coming back here don't you I was driving down the M62 today and the taxi driver was taking me to the end of the M62 so I said no go on the M50 this is the route I used to always take every day for eight years it was my lucky route turn left onto the east links and come past the cinema on the left hand side they now put a Starbucks on the right hand side so things are getting better now it's a brilliant place but I think my dream one day is to actually come back here and actually work here one day that's my dream but we'll see yeah we'll see, leave that with me don't wait by the fall Phil Neville breathing down your next nuts yeah is he after an ambassador job I'll have to warn Diamond, warn Sharpie I know he's been after it as well but he's doing too well on TV no great lad took a lot of our fans to get used to him in an Everton shirt because they'd seen him in a Man United shirt but one thing Phil Neville give you as a captain and as a leader he's 100% every week in and week out yeah he was a great character so around the place he led by example he got Everton didn't he? he did, he came from Man United he was his first love and he came to Everton but quickly got us and joined in in Everton led by example, the fans took to him he made tackles that the fans wanted to and he was a great person a great character to show around the dressing room we just finished fourth at the time when Phil Neville joined us and we didn't get off to the best of starts did we the following season? no we didn't, we got knocked out of Europe twice, we were struggling in the league and it got to about November December time and we were still in the bottom three and he come up to us saying we're going to get relegated, we're going to get relegated I'm going to take the club down, it's going to be my fault I'm going to get relegated, I was like Phil we've got far too much to get relegated, we just need to get the ball rolling we need a little bit of luck and we'll be fine it's going to be my fault I'm going to take the club down, don't worry obviously we quickly got in a run I think we ended up finishing the mid-table did Phil have to come in and prove himself that he could fall over again as a footballer? I don't think he did, but any good footballer with his attitude does that everywhere he goes and he came wanting to improve himself, wanting to show what he's capable of and I think he did that quite quickly he must have had that respect of Uselot in the dressing room when he first arrived for what he'd won in England international so he must have had that respect he came from Man United he'd won pretty much everything you can as a club player we wanted to join our progression that we were making forward and as I said we looked up to him as young Ladson and he proved how good he was on the field he was a great lad around the place and that's just about it for part one of this week's Everton show coming up after the break we'll hear from Morgan Schneiderlin Guilfrey Sigarton and we look ahead to our weekend trip to Brighton welcome back to part two of this week's Everton show we're also celebrating a 10th anniversary our laden Baines and Phil Jagyelker 10 years as Everton footballers and Snotch you hosted a celebratory event at Gullison recently I did in the Alex Young suite and now quite nervous first one I'd done I was studying for you I think every right to be nervous yeah I was very nervous and of two people you didn't want to interview is Jags and Bainesy because they made it difficult as well for me but I got a lot of stick to be honest but now the great lads they did make it easy for me because they talk, they speak they're not like don't give you one word answers which could be uncomfortable so now the great lads, great professionals and I'm glad I know them and they are top top lads oh I can't speak highly enough about the pair of them to you know to be such good lads off the field to be in such good players on the field and they're the type of players that give you 8 out of 10 minimum every week they give you their attitude the players that if you're up against it you know they're in for the fight as well and you know it does not surprise me at all the length of their ever cruise about characteristics that you wanted to bring from Bellfield to Finch Farm and them too as well as yourself just to pitomise that yeah definitely you know you need to have strong characters in the dressing room to make it work you know you need your different types of characters your laughers, your jokers, your people that you can go and talk to at the time you need your leaders and in them they encompass pretty much every one of them aspects so not only do they do that and they're so important off the field but you know they're incredible players as well they come to Finch Farm we're talking about the same thing here trying to compare yourselves we go down and see Jimmy Martin we always go down and see Jimmy and it's great because the likes of Ozzy when he was here, Ibo, Bainzy, Jags he can have a laugh with them they come straight into Jimmy's office give us a bit of steak and all that but the respect is as well so the respect is mutual from us to them and yeah we just get along great still playing well, it's not as well aren't they playing very well and deserve to be still looking strong in their everything careers and you know I'm hoping that they've got a few years left because for me we look better when they're in the team two great lads, that's for sure well it's time now for this week's my first time sitting in the chair is Morgan Schneiderlin when I was 22 I just took an Audi A3 but the Audi A3 now I give them to my sister so he's still in the family so it's good maybe the work of 1998 maybe when France won I was 9 years old and that was really when I started to watch very much the games you know and everything and I always remember the times when we went all in the street and party after the win in the World Cup it's probably when I kicked the ball with my with my grandmother my mom in the garden my grandmother you know I always wanted to kick the ball and I kicked the ball and it was the flower and everything and I always say that to my grandmother that when I'm going to be a professional footballer I will buy a lot of flowers because she was upset with me because I killed all of us I had a dog called Milu because he was I don't know if you know the cartoon Tintin and the dog called Milu and I had this dog but he was he was not educated so he killed the sofa the carpet I took I don't know if you took my shirt but I took the shirt off when we played Man United in FA Cup or something when I was in Academy in Strasbourg I had I was doing was a diploma called marketing and then through the year you have to spend 3 months in the afternoon where you have to work in a shop so I was working in a shop called a shop center it's part of life it makes you know that there's no just football and that there's something anything like that So now let's look ahead to the weekend visit to Brighton the whole of Albion, it's a game that we really could do with winning So tough game that's there's no question about it we're in a position where we need wins it's going to be a difficult game I've got plenty of respect for Chris Huthen as a coach I think he's done ever so well in his career done great with Brighton and it's going to be a difficult game their fans are going to be up for it it's exciting times for their fans as well being in the Premier League we just need to go down there hopefully get the first goal but it'll not be easy they've got one or two good players and they've got a player, Ozzy I'm sure you've seen training you've played with him, Shane Duffy who I thought is an excellent buy for them Yes, he made his debut with us in the first team and did great he's a proper defender he's an old fashioned defender that wants to head it and wants to kick it and stick his leg in and stop a goal happening he's improved his football as well over the years he played at the weekend in midweek against Wales and he was absolutely outstanding I thought he was the best player best player on the pitch, he defended everything every time the ball came in the box he won it he'll go into this game with a lot of confidence at the weekend someone will have to get past it what will Brighton's remit be this season, Ozzy? let's finish above the bottom three so we're in the Premier League next season and see who we can push on absolutely, survival on their side is they know they're going to suffer defeats during the season and they'll put them behind them quickly and move on and every game is the next thing coming up and when you do that confidence levels can stay quite high they'll see this as an opportunity at the weekend and that makes it extra tough for us Ozzy, it weren't that long ago that they might have gone out with the football league when you think and now they're playing games against Man City Man United, Chelsea, Everton's, Arsenal's must be great for their fans from few years ago thinking they're not even going to exist to now be in the Premier League Brighton against Everton on Sunday we mentioned Shane Duffy then another player who was celebrating during the week was Guilfee Sigarton, he held Iceland to qualify for the World Cup in Russia next summer we caught up with Guilfee when he got back to USM Finch Farm yeah it was fantastic it was nice to score in such an important game and leading up to the game you were hoping you could help the team with the goal so it was a nice feeling to score in such an important game of course we were waiting for what happened to Icelandic football to actually go to the World Cup it's happening now so that's I mean it's just an outstanding feeling and I think all of the players and the people in Iceland as well are really proud of so we'll be looking forward to going to Russia now for the World Cup it's fantastic what Iceland have been doing for the past couple of seasons but how do you think you can fare next summer hopefully well we'll have to see of course with the playoffs being next month but then the draw in December so we'll have to see what group we'll be in but I think we will have a good chance of making it through the group but we know it's going to be difficult but as I said we haven't got anything to lose and I think we'll go into the World Cup with the same we had going into the Euros you returned to Premier League action now how important is it to put in a performance this weekend very very important for us we need to get back to winning ways disappointed result against Burnley so it's very important for us to start picking up points and it would be nice to do that on Sunday Snod's ahead of the weekend Guilfrey Sigurdsson and the boys who did well in the World Cup must be full of confidence it must be great to come back to the training ground knowing that you've secured your place at the World Cup more importantly they came back injury free that's all I'm bothered about for Evan's point of view but no, for themselves it's great for them to qualify the lads, great for Seamus as well that Ireland have took it to a game as well so every Everton player that's involved I've not took much notice of the World Cup qualifiers I really haven't even England as well I want us to get there, we are there I just watch it for the Everton lads that are playing in certain games and I just want them to do well nice to see Michael Keane getting a start for England and England have strolled the group but there's still something missing isn't there yeah well first of all you're right it's great to see Michael Keane and I think he's earned his chance through his performances he's done really well, got the move here and continued to shine there is something lacking with England there's just that spark in the middle of the park if you pass or that little spark of run or energy a bit of magic that's just missing at the moment it gets found out more against the teams that are prepared to defend and that's when you need these players to come alive and at the moment I think we're better suited for counter-attack those England caps that you won are they right up there, highlights of your career well there's certainly proud moments I thoroughly enjoyed both occasions I played for my country very proud to have done it but just as many proud moments playing for Everton what's rejoicing of Finch Farm amongst ourselves when Ozzie got the call he deserved it as well he really did, he played never so well for Everton, scoring goals playing with confidence and everybody was saying when's Ozzie going to get his chance and when he did, they were everybody and I mean everybody Ozzie would do that it was mad just walking around the complex everyone was patting me on the back and the dinner ladies were going great there's some extra eggs and stuff do you know what I felt proudest for my mum and dad because I know I'm personally the great people and they must have been so proud of Ozzie getting his cap it was just a shame you had that moustache for charity wasn't it a real shame the timing wasn't great but you know if you commit to doing something for charity I couldn't shave it off just from the England cap but you know I look back and I see the moustache now and the kids ask is that the style back then they're like no it wasn't but you know I'm proud that I managed to, that I did it to the moustache I remember when moustache held footballers with the norm snods I do in 87 when I came down and I look back at my pictures and I think wow I don't think mine could be considered a moustache I think that was the problem Ozzie I never shaved from being 15 year old and when I came to Abernourg 23 and it was still just a little high honestly but I got loads of stick from the Scousers I thought I've got to get rid of this quickly more stick for the tash than the mullet both really from the recent past to the future another good win for the under 23s they'd be ported with in the Premier League Cup yeah don't surprise me at all Ozzie's got him playing with confidence whatever team he puts out there seem to want to do the business for him want to go and entertain, want to go and win and yeah he's got a great spirit amongst them 23s yeah they're doing great and you know as he's not just said Ozzie's really got them playing well he's got a different brood coming through now the ones he had last season on loan or in and around first teams and he's started all over again and you know it's good to see players like Lavery coming in scoring goals Benny's doing great in the middle of the park and you know I would expect Ozzie will probably have another couple just on the edge of the first team coming in this season Benny Benningham he's had a new contract which is great yeah I like him, I really do I think he breaks up play, he's comfortable on the ball passes it intelligently as well and he's a nice kid as well I like good kids to go the ball is coming through but you know he's not the tallest but he's learned how to mix it as well and you need all of that to play in the Premier League these days he's going to be a character as well isn't he I think certainly yes, going to be great at Finch Farm for the next 10 years we hope and that's just about it for this week's Everton Show my thanks to Snods and Ozzie we got there in the end do join us again next week for another Everton Show you've been watching the Everton show on YouTube thank you very much indeed for joining us I hope you've enjoyed it I'm sure you have don't forget to subscribe and that way you catch every single future episode