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Football: Osman swaps teams to follow his dreams; The Premiership In the post-Rooney era Everton have a new local hero - and his goals are leading the way to Europe.(Sport)
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The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
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March 6, 2005| Author:
Townsend, Nick
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Byline: Nick Townsend
Leon Osman surveys the interior of the hangar-sized gymnasium at Everton's Bellefield training ground. For a moment, his mind goes to the "playback" function of the videotape of his life; to the scenes where he is a 10-year-old again, a schoolboy born in Billinge, near Wigan.
"You know, my dad used to be stood in the corner, over there, freezing with all the other parents. He was here two hours, four times a week - Monday, Tuesday, Wedne...