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We look back at the week that was, and the dawn of the Lampard era.

Are we ambitious enough as a club? After 27 years and counting, Macca asks "how do we support the team and push for a better EFC"? It's a question many Evertonians have brought up in recent weeks. Are we on a road to nowhere, or good times just around the corner? Following a tumultuous start to the year and impassioned protests, we reflect on Everton's business affairs from Russia with love, and lack of discipline as an institution we can't seem to shake. Can demands to "sack the board" really make a difference? Do fans still play an important role in shaping the club? Everton's managerial appointment in Frank Lampard would argue that, yes, they do. Will Lampard be given the resources required to compete? We delve into a fan culture screaming for a football philosophy to get behind, desperate for silverware, and debate if Everton will ever take their seat with football's elite.  What's it all about, Moshiri? 

Up the Toffees 

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Dave O’Grady of Seafoam Green, and some of us here go back a long time, so, sitting down with him and hearing about his fondest football memories was something quite special. Irish roots, becoming an evertonian, trialing at Home Farm in the ‘90s, and emigrating to Liverpool, this is more like a chat with an old friend, than an interview, "I don't know how I ended up at Home Farm, maybe one of my school friends was playing there. I ended up going there and had a little trial and got on the team - Home Farm at the time, they wore the Everton Kit, I remember thinking that’s cool, seeing that on the TV and that was the club we were playing for.” His childhood passion for St Pat’s, impact the Premier League has on the League of Ireland, and why Seamus Coleman is more daylight robbery than a steal. That Ireland / Liverpool love affair, the trad scene as we know it today, tour tales, playing at Finch Farm, and what’s next for Dave and his band.

Running order:

-Introduction - 00m 27s
-Plugs and mentions - 00m 35s
-Home at St Pat's and Home Farm (early years) - 4m 35s
-Why Everton? - 7m 05s
-Roy Keane Rebel Rouser - 11m 58s
-Jack Charlton Fishing trips - 14m 31s
-League of Ireland Homegrown regulation - 18m 07s
-Liverpool The Long Weekend - 35m 24s
-Searching for the scene - 40m 32s
-Quickfire Q & A - 52m 34s

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The trio welcomes Meikayla Moore into the mix. Zipping around the city several months ago, we scooted into an early-morning training session with a level of intensity that could only indicate a focused and professional athlete. Turns out the athlete we stumbled upon was Liverpool Defender, New Zealand international and Olympian, Meikalya Moore. When it comes to ultimate professional athletes, Meikayla ticks every box. Level-headed, passionate, conscientious, and constantly striving to improve her sport for the next generation. If you're an ardent football fan and care about the beautiful game and its progress, this one's for you. Moore takes us through her player pathway from her native Christchurch - from being the only girl in CO-ED to U17 Championships and conquering Europe. Platforms and philosophy, we hear the overwhelming pride in representing her country and how pulling on the Fern's strip for the first time has shaped who she is today.

Meikayla discusses her contemporaries, who she looked up to coming up in the game, and why it's important to have representation as a young female athlete. We delve into the transfer market via the Bundesliga to Liverpool FC and the comparisons to the men's game, as well as the clubs' working to smash the glass ceiling. Money talks, wage gaps, and pushing the game forward - how male footballers can help revolutionise women's football, and how in turn, men can learn a thing or two from women when it comes to inclusion and equality. Meikayala talks us through a World Cup injury and what the road to recovery looks like as a professional athlete in 2021.

All of this PLUS that good old Everton / Liverpool rivalry, and how it feels being in the city. As if that wasn't enough, we chat about the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, expectations for her country, elevating women in sport, and LGBTQ+ activism. Meikayla speaks her mind on inclusivity, and how important it is to find your own voice.

Stick with it to the end for a Quickfire Q & A that includes player insight you won't find anywhere else...

Running order:

-Introduction 00m 39s

-New Zealand Beginnings 1m 38s

-CO-ED Experiences - 3m 05s

-Ferns & Olympian 15m 57s

-Women in the game - 23m 31s

-Europe The jump to Germany - 33m 36s

-Covid - 41m 15s

-EFC / LFC Rivalry - 46m 22s

-Injury & Recovery - 51m 04s

-Equality & Activism - 1hr 4m 20s

-Quickfire Q & A - 1hr 14m 14s

-The Kop 1964 She loves you - 1hr 16m 54s



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MINT are joined by Portland, Pete Hoppins; an Evertonian who recently left a dream role as Senior Design Director for Global Football Apparel at Nike (Football) to open the Toffee Club (@toffeeclubpdx), Away Day Brewing (@awaysdaysbrewingco) and the Toffee League (@toffeeleague). A self confessed instigator, Pete invites us all into his world from designing kits for Inter, Barca, PSG and more for Nike Football to what it takes to create an inclusive culture within grassroots "sport".

An insight deep into the process of kit design within the world of artistic impression in football. Including all you want to hear about what it takes for collaborations; Hoopin' references by Hoppins as Air Jordan x PSG collabs are discussed. All your favourite kits are dropped in, Nigeria 98', Brazil 70' and Classic 90's Everton, the "revolution" or "reverse revolutions" of retro and the Everton rebrand reluctancy. The lack of strategy and vision from the blues, and what positives and methods we can take from the monopolies of modern football.

Not only that but as an Evertonian, Pete was given the task to design Liverpools first kit with Nike. Revenue led tiering systems, Pete explains what clubs get from brands at their level on the tier and in a world of global economics their revenue is the biggest pull for partnerships.

There is no such thing as becoming "cool overnight". Is Hummel the answer?

We also discuss grassroots culture in Oregon. Pete tells us about his learning curve with LGBTQ and CO-ED leagues for players within an "exclusive inclusive" league environment. The difficulties developing an environment to encourage change. What tactical approaches can be made to partner with community leaders, business and communities for leagues at the lower tier of local football and how football is a springboard.

The facade of messages from the corporate football & how the people can be the change. Including mental imagery of Big Nev on Instagram donning brand releases in Rhyl.

If you didn't know, Pete tells us Brazils kit is yellow, thanks. How he can't explain his disgust at Evertons attempted rebrand in 2017 & some Portlandians thinking his Toffee Club Pub, was a confectionary shop and he's added to the admirers of The West Derby Rui Costa club.

Running Order:
- Introduction -  00m 40s
- Time at Nike - 03m 45s
- Kit Design process - 06m 10s
- Design your rivals kit - 11m 55s
- Collaborations & Brands - 19m 05s
- Evertons lack of awareness - 25m 04s
- MLS and Beyond - 33m 45s
- Toffee Club Community - 35m 30s
- The Toffee League (No D*ckheads & rules) - 41m 25s
- Creating a greater grassroots platform - 50m 35s
- QuickFire Q & A - 59m 44s



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Ciao e Benvenuto!

This week we elevate our inner 90's James Richardson Football Italia vibes, it may not be all espresso and piazzas but it is edge of the seat conversation. We're joined by Italian Football Expert, Writer, Journalist and Evertonian, Tobias Jones.

We discuss Tobias' book and Winner of the Daily Telegraph Football Book of the Year, 'ULTRAS, The Underworld of Italian Football'. Tobias dives deep into the ultra culture, with tales of years immersing himself within the Curva Sud of Cosenza, a Serie B team from the boot of Italy. The anarchic tales of the eternal youth, an Italian ultra means 'Capitale del Mondo" for the Tifoso.

'Il Barone' at AC Milan to Claudio 'Il Bocia' Galimberti at Atalanta, and how the Ultra movement is adapting. From 60's punk beginnings to Catania Mayoral figures. Tobias' educates us on why the ultras of Italy are so renowned & describes in his own experiences just what it is like to be sat with them in the stands. A far left to far right shift, Lazios, Irriducibili and their storming of training grounds during their title winning season and how if you're an Ultra it's about the colours on the shirt not the name on the back of it.

Tobias also recalls becoming an Evertonian as a Somerset boy on the beaches of Wales. Rekindling names like; Sheedy, Southall, Ratcliffe and Reid. The glory years of the 80's and how he doesn't do himself any favours with being a Parma fan. The reach of the blues in Parma and the importance of communities. How Europa League Everton v Atalanta embarrassed Tobias' tip for an English team for his Italians. He gives us tales of terror, empathy and how Tobias still keeps in touch with his "amica" in Cosenza. Gangs or "tifoso"?

"Dribblagio", "Crespo", 'Parma v Inter in the 90's'. A stunning insight into Italian football from a fascinating and engaging writer.  Running Order:

- Introduction (00m 20s)
- Love of Everton (01m 12s)
- Book Genesis and "Bucci Suicide" (05m 15s)
- Why Cosenza? (08m 45s)
- Tifoso, Colosseum culture & Roman radicalism (18m 54s)
- Atalanta's Claudio 'Il Bocia' Galimberti (28m 42s)
- Emmanuel Calaio match fixing scandal (37m 03s)
- Materazzi & Rui Costa Iconography (40m 00s)
- Rivalries and communalism (45m 30s)
- QuickFire Q & A (55m 23s)  

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Adam McAleavey is a Liverpool born radio DJ featured on worldwide online platform NTS Radio. Macca talks to us about how he combines his two fickle loves; Beats and The Blues. Fashion, fashionability, and fash(c)-ism.

South Liverpool music, starting a record label, and what imagery from 80's Toxteth can help uprise, the ghettoised, gentrisied southside?

Macca (@maccalaaa) tells us about the notoriety of being a scouser based in London, both politically and personally. Living in a global hotspot like the Big Smoke evokes the Evertonian inside him to questions: Why aren't Everton cool? We hear niche about opportunities missed, and opportunities in the making. The Tom Davies factor and what would make Everton relevant globally, or only even as far as Hackney?

What it means being an Evertonian now, and we ask the question we asked in our first pod "La Cultura", what is Everton to the generation not old enough to remember on pitch success? Does match day experiences taint our feelings towards the club, and lessons learned on the darker side of following your team.

We hear about the lifestyle differences between north and south divide within football culture, involvement in grassroots football with The Gun.

Mid 80's love in between Merseyside colours. Macca gives us a unique insight of a Blue attending parades and celebrations for a side that isn't his own and trophies they haven't won, (yes... the reds) and what it means for his city.

There are positives and negatives to being a blue, and this is just one story. Enjoy! One Glove.


Running Order:

- Introduction (00m 45s)

- Everton and evocative beats (08m 25s)

- The outside opinion of the blues (11m 13s)

- Collaborative Creatives and Evertons' inefficiencies (17m 25s)

- North South divide (24m 40s)

- A fan of the city (34m 45s)

- Fan culture negative and positive (40m 00s)

- It's a sign of the times. What is your Everton? (56m 30s)

- City gentrification (1h 07m 00s)

- QuickFire Q & A (01h 08m 23s)



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