A version of the below interview first appeared in the Sunderland matchday programme! To buy or download singles issues, click here. To subscribe, click here.
Exactly nine-and-a-half years on from his long-awaited Everton debut, Leighton Baines made his 300th Premier League appearance for the Blues on Saturday.
Baines, now the second longest-serving member of the current squad behind Phil Jagielka, who was signed a month earlier during the summer of 2007, is not one to obsess over numbers. But when it comes to painting an honest and insightful picture of the current landscape at L4, few are better placed.