New Everton Giants to be inducted
Everton's PR Manager of Football Media David Prentice has been speaking about the latest former players that are to be inducted as new Everton Giants.Andy Gray, Derek Mountfield, Kevin Sheedy and Paul Bracewell are all going to be inducted at half-time in Saturday's game against Manchester United.Speaking about what fans can expect on Saturday to BBC Radio Merseyside, Prentice said: "There's going to be flags shown before the game of each of the new inductees, and we're going to bring them onto the pitch at half-time."Peter Reid, who is already an Everton Giant, is going to make a presentation to them."The reward for being inducted as an Everton Giant, on the walkway at the new Everton stadium, those 36,000 stones being laid on the walkway - there are bigger versions of that and every Everton Giant gets their own huge big paving stone with all their details, goals, appearances and time played at the club laid on the walkway."Each inductee also gets their own replica stone which they can carry away - they'll be brought onto the pitch and it'll be nice for them to take a salute from the Gwladys Street one last time because they've been in front of the crowd and cheered that many times - but for some of them, not for quite a few years."I think it'll be quite emotional."Listen to the full interview here
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