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Leighton Baines

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davek said:
He was and is a better Evertonian than someone born and brought up a Kopite and then went onto Blackburn.


FFS that's just weird.
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As somebody has pointed out before I believe, Peter Reid among many others was born Red, do you consider him to be unworthy of the appellation 'Evertonian'?
Baines has given everything on the pitch and shown loyalty off it. He is a captain and a great ambassador for our club, that makes him an Evertonian in my eyes.
The other fella is not ,nor never was an Evertonian. Sorry.
 
Eggsyblueskin said:
As somebody has pointed out before I believe, Peter Reid among many others was born Red, do you consider him to be unworthy of the appellation 'Evertonian'?
Baines has given everything on the pitch and shown loyalty off it. He is a captain and a great ambassador for our club, that makes him an Evertonian in my eyes.
The other fella is not ,nor never was an Evertonian. Sorry.
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You're comparing a legend like Reid with Baines?
 

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I genuinely think he could be the next James Bond.
 
davek said:
He was and is a better Evertonian than someone born and brought up a Kopite and then went onto Blackburn.


FFS that's just weird.
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pril 2014 10.20 EDT First published on Friday 18 April 2014 10.20 EDT

Leighton Baines is remembering his teenage days paying the 50p bus fare from Kirkby to Goodison Park in the hope he might get lucky. "I never had a ticket for the match but there would be lots of kids who just hung around," he recalls. And they were streetwise. Ten minutes before the end of every match, the gates would open to let the early leavers beat the rush and that was the moment Baines and his mates had their chance to sneak in "hoping to see big Dunc". And big Dunc, as every self-respecting Evertonian knows, is Duncan Ferguson. Baines's boyhood hero. "He was the one who could change the atmosphere in the whole ground."

It does not take long in Baines's company to understand that Everton's left-back has an almost old-fashioned affinity to his club. "I spoke to Paul Jewell a month ago," he says. "He was Wigan manager when I was there and he could remember asking me in my final season where I wanted to go. I just said 'Everton' immediately. It stuck in his mind because he didn't know why I was so focused on that idea. But I just always had the feeling this was where I belonged."
 

The old lady said:
pril 2014 10.20 EDT First published on Friday 18 April 2014 10.20 EDT

Leighton Baines is remembering his teenage days paying the 50p bus fare from Kirkby to Goodison Park in the hope he might get lucky. "I never had a ticket for the match but there would be lots of kids who just hung around," he recalls. And they were streetwise. Ten minutes before the end of every match, the gates would open to let the early leavers beat the rush and that was the moment Baines and his mates had their chance to sneak in "hoping to see big Dunc". And big Dunc, as every self-respecting Evertonian knows, is Duncan Ferguson. Baines's boyhood hero. "He was the one who could change the atmosphere in the whole ground."

It does not take long in Baines's company to understand that Everton's left-back has an almost old-fashioned affinity to his club. "I spoke to Paul Jewell a month ago," he says. "He was Wigan manager when I was there and he could remember asking me in my final season where I wanted to go. I just said 'Everton' immediately. It stuck in his mind because he didn't know why I was so focused on that idea. But I just always had the feeling this was where I belonged."
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Game.
Set.
Match.
 
The old lady said:
pril 2014 10.20 EDT First published on Friday 18 April 2014 10.20 EDT

Leighton Baines is remembering his teenage days paying the 50p bus fare from Kirkby to Goodison Park in the hope he might get lucky. "I never had a ticket for the match but there would be lots of kids who just hung around," he recalls. And they were streetwise. Ten minutes before the end of every match, the gates would open to let the early leavers beat the rush and that was the moment Baines and his mates had their chance to sneak in "hoping to see big Dunc". And big Dunc, as every self-respecting Evertonian knows, is Duncan Ferguson. Baines's boyhood hero. "He was the one who could change the atmosphere in the whole ground."

It does not take long in Baines's company to understand that Everton's left-back has an almost old-fashioned affinity to his club. "I spoke to Paul Jewell a month ago," he says. "He was Wigan manager when I was there and he could remember asking me in my final season where I wanted to go. I just said 'Everton' immediately. It stuck in his mind because he didn't know why I was so focused on that idea. But I just always had the feeling this was where I belonged."
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"As a boy I supported Liverpool. As a local lad I used to watch from The Kop when Robbie Fowler was making his name. I started out at Liverpool's Centre of Excellence and although it was disappointing when nothing came of it, I was lucky that both Wigan and Wolves wanted to sign me. I was only young, though, and I didn't like the hustle and bustle of the stands. I lost interest in Liverpool, but I still loved watching football. I was at the 1995 FA Cup final [aged 9, when Everton beat Manchester United 1-0]. I went through a spell of liking Blackburn Rovers because they had Alan Shearer and Chris Sutton in attack."
 

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