Hi there, it's Adam Leventhal here once again. Welcome to the Athletics Premier League

Countdown podcast with the return of the 2019 season only days away,

we're releasing 20 podcasts on the Ornstein and Chapman feed, each one dedicated to a different

Premier League team. That's two podcasts a day, every day up until football returns. Now,

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Ornstein and Chapman to enjoy the best football writing anywhere just as the season makes its return.

In this episode, we are discussing Everton, who's 12th in the Premier League,

and we can welcome one of the athletics dedicated Everton writers, Paddy Boylan. Paddy, how are you?

I'm good, thank you. How are you?

Yeah, very well, ticking along, enjoying these preview podcasts as we get ready for at the restart.

We should also mention that you are our dedicated podcaster for the Everton podcast Glad Tidings, which has been running episodes all

through the lockdown and prior as well. Are there any ones that stick out for you? For people

who don't necessarily know that it's there, they should look out for?

Yeah, I think more than anything, we've just been keeping people up to date with what's happening on and off the pitch at the club over this difficult period, the lockdown period.

So that's been everything from, we did an interview with Lee Carsley a few weeks ago, talking about the 0405 season

when Everton clinched fourth place ahead of Liverpool. But we also spoke to Lee as well during

that podcast about his experiences with England under 21s and working with some quite highly rated

young Everton players. So we did that. We've also, we did a podcast with Monday Al

magazine that I'm sure lots of listeners will know talking about Everton's new kit deal with Hummel.

And last week we took a look at the news that, first of all, that Leighton Baines is likely to prolong his

stay at Everton for a further year, a popular decision all around, and also that there are a few injury

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