KiwiBlue79
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I was at that game with me old man - remember thinking Jevons was gonna be awesome!
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when i score we riot
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Love that the buildup is all done by Baines & Peanut, but jesus christ what a strike, look at that ball bending.
Ossie is our Giggs.
Arteta's Girl
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Before.
His knee injury actually occured in that game! Just before the end.
They were (and still are) 2 legged games and this was the first leg, I remember going to the 2nd game at Goodison (though I was only 8 at the time) and Leon was on crutches then celebrating with the rest of the team.
That injury caused him trouble on and off for a good 2 and a bit years which slowed his progress and honestly, I think the injury stopped him becoming an even better player than he is (at least thats what my parents tell me as we used to watch that team a lot because we knew one of the players personally..)
He was at Lilleshall with a bunch of other players (like Franny Jeffers and Michael Ball). Joe Cole was there too at the same time and I distinctly remember him a few years ago saying that Osman was one of the most talented players he had ever played with.
Tony Hibbert used to play centre midfield back in those days as well...:huh:
Edit: Found a little bit where they spoke to him bout his injury..
It was on one of the first big nights of his career, though, that Osman was on the receiving end of the tackle which began what was to be a five-year struggle in which the odds of him joining the Everton firmament often looked slim. He was playing against Blackburn in the first leg of the 1998 FA Youth Cup final that Everton won (he started alongside Dunne and Danny Cadamarteri; Hibbert was a substitute) when, having scored the dipping 15-yard volley which completed a 3-1 win, he hurt his right knee in a tackle 10 minutes from the end. "On the bus on the way back it swelled up and by the time I got off the bus I couldn't walk," he recalls. He missed the second leg, which saw Everton lift the trophy, so beginning three seasons of frustrations and fears as he failed to get over the injury. First he was told he had nicked his cartilage and needed surgery. But three months later, the knee was still not right. More treatment and still it felt wrong. "I just never recovered," Osman remembers. "Because I was struggling with my knee I was going over on my ankle all the time." Eventually, a local surgeon's opinion was sought and an exploratory operation found that the entire cruciate ligament had frayed to nothing. "They said I must have frayed the cruciate in that initial tackle and that I'd been playing without one for three years," Osman says. "I didn't blame the doctors. I was relieved in a way because I'd believed all along that it hadn't been right."
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Remember that game well. The team was coached by Colin Harvey and they played some excellent football. Took my 5 year old twin boys to that game and even now they can remember it. We completely out played Blackburn that night and I remember thinking we've got some good players. On the night Farley the left back stood out as did Osman, Dunne, Cadamarteri and Jevons.
ijjysmith
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*Fumes at Hibbo on the bench.
justmeinit
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It was my mate who has uploaded this to youtube David Poppleton, he played on the right side of midfield he has upload a few more from the same youth team if anyone is interested
I think he was on here once or twice mate, i thought he was going to make it with us to be honest, nice fella.
Birdman1878
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Hadn't seen that goal before. Great finish.
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