Weir's International Odyssey Takes Him From Nowhere Man to Captain

The ScotsmanMay 06, 2006

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DAVID Weir will have plenty on his mind as he steps aboard the plane taking him to Japan next week for the first time in a long and distinguished career.

The Everton player has been appointed skipper of a Scotland squad deprived of the services of Barry Ferguson and Christian Dailly, but is aware that the circumstances on his return home will make the busy clamour of Tokyo's Shinjuku train station seem like a peaceful retreat by comparison.

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Weir's International Odyssey Takes Him From Nowhere Man to Captain

Weir turns 36 on Wednesday, and can celebrate another year of exceptional service to Everton, whose renewed offer of a one-year contract last summer - the first he rejected as being insulting - took his Goodison Park career into an eighth season.

Against West Bromwich Albion...

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