Q&A with Morgan Gibbs-White

Age: 20 Position: Midfielder Nationality: English Clubs: Wolves, 70 Apps, 1 Goals

H E M A Y B E J U S T 2 0 Y E A R S OF AGE, BUT MORGAN GIBBSWHITE ALREADY HAS A WORLD C U P W I N N E R S ’ M E DA L A N D A C H A M P I O N S H I P T I T L E U N D E R H I S B E LT, N O T T O M E N T I O N A N U M B E R O F A P P E A R A N C E S IN THE PREMIER LEAGUE AND E U R O PA L E A G U E . H E R E , T H E MIDFIELDER REVEALS THE GIFT HE RECEIVED AFTER HIS WINNER AT PRESTON, AND WHY FAMILY WILL ALWAYS COME FIRST.

Morgan, you’ve had a few weeks to settle into your new surroundings, how do you feel things have been going for you so far at Swansea?

Yeah, it’s been a month since I made the move and I cannot fault the surroundings and how welcoming everyone has been. The weather had been beautiful up until now, too! But I could not ask for more, it’s a good place to be, it’s a supportive environment.

Off the field it’s been good too, although I’m almost surprised I am still here given this is my first time away from home. My girlfriend is here with me and that has been great in terms of helping us settle in and supporting me. I’m trying to improve my cooking skills, I’ll keep it simple for now with Spaghetti Bolognese!

Scoring on your league debut must have been special, particularly as it was your first league goal too?

Yeah, that was an amazing moment for me. I’ve been looking to get that first league goal for what feels like quite a while now. I’m happy it was for such an exciting, positive club where everyone is so supportive of me.

It was great to score the winner, and then when I got back my girlfriend had got me some flowers and chocolates for me to mark it. It was a nice surprise, bless her, it just shows she’s a good one. To be fair, it should be the other way around and I should be the one getting flowers. Maybe she was trying to tell me something. When you came down to sign for the club it was lovely to see your whole family had made the journey down to be part of that day. It’s not something we see that often, but it just goes to show what a tight-knit group you are?

We are all really close, we’ve all lived together right up until I moved to come here. Wherever I go my dad always comes with me, as does my mother. I would not have wanted to spend such a special day with anyone other than my girlfriend and family.

They are the ones who see me when things have not gone so well, I might be upset or angry, or I might be happy after a good game. They have to deal with all that.

They’ve always been there. I am sure my father has spent thousands of pounds on petrol over the years, but it has been worth it. He says he does not regret a moment of it, and I would not be in this situation at all without him.

Is it true that your father, Kirk, was a pretty handy striker when he played in Staffordshire? Does football talent run in the family?

He was a very good football player, he was a very quick striker, a good finisher. But I think some people can be led astray and he made sure I wasn’t. I am sure he would have been good enough to be a professional but he made sure I learned from his own experiences. I felt like he could have made it with the right people around him, and I think that’s why he has always been there for me to make sure I am doing the right things and making sure I got as far as I could. Like I say, if it wasn’t for him I would not be sat here now.

Were you always football mad as a youngster, or were you handy at any other sports?

To be fair, I was pretty good at most sports but it was always football for me. Since I could walk, from the age of one-and-a-half, I was booting the ball around the place. I loved players like Ronaldinho, David Beckham was he was at United, as I supported them growing up. Also Paul Scholes and Ruud van Nistelrooy, but I would still say my biggest inspiration has been my dad.

I used to take a football to school every day, and I used to get detention because I couldn’t leave the ball alone. I’d just be kicking it up the corridors to my lessons and into the classrooms.

The teachers used to tell me I had to get my head down and study and get my grades, but I would always tell them I wanted to be a football player. It was always Plan A.

You went to Thomas Telford School, where you were coached by Des Lyttle, who played for Swansea City in the early 1990s before becoming a Premier League player with Nottingham Forest. What was he like to be coached by?

It’s very rare to come across a school teacher with that sort of experience. I learnt a lot from him and we were a successful side.

He would always tell us about examples from his career, how he prepared, his superstitions. I remember he told us once about this lucky pair of pants he always wore on a game day.

He still had them and kept them in the changing room, they were stinking and had loads of holes in them. I can tell you I will never be doing that!

He did say you were a bit mischievous?

I was a little bit, like most kids are at that age, you can be a bit of a lad. I don’t think I was naughty or anything, I was well behaved but I knew when I could have a joke and not get caught!

I do remember one with Des where we had a PE day and we were going out to play football. We hid around the corner from the dressing room and he went marching in to tell us to hurry up as he was waiting for us, and we snuck up, closed the door and locked him in. We went out to play and left him there, we had to stay behind after school for two hours because of that!

You were scouted and signed by Wolves at the age of eight, how did that come about?

I was playing in a tournament in Penkridge, near our home. I didn’t know anything about any scouts being there and it was just a normal Sunday game for me. I think I scored four or five goals, but the scouts were originally watching another game, but my mother and father were cheering me on so much that it attracted one of the scouts to see what was happening.

He only saw the last five or 10 minutes, but he went up to my parents after the game and said; ‘please get this kid down to us whenever you can’. His name was Bob Bennett and he has retired now. As I say again, without my parents I would not be where I am today!

I went and had a trial – wearing my blue Manchester United shirt with Ronaldo on the back – and I got signed on the back of that and got down to work from there.

The academy was great, Gary Prosser was my academy manager for eight years and was really supportive. He gave me so much confidence, I cannot fault how he was with me in my development. He came out to India during the World Cup in 2017 to support me, and you don’t see too many academy managers doing things like that, hopping on a 15-hour flight to cheer on a young lad.

Your first-team breakthrough came under Paul Lambert in 2017, against a Premier League side in Stoke. You were just 16 at the time, did it come as a surprise?

It was surreal, every time I look back I feel things have been a blur. I’d only had two or three training sessions with the first team, I didn’t have a spot in the changing room. Then, out of the blue, I got added to the first-team group chat with no real explanation.

I thought it was a bit weird and did not know what to make of it. The squad list for the game came out and I didn’t really check it straight away as I did not think I would be in there. I checked it later that night and I had to read it about 20 times before I believed it was my name there and I started shouting and screaming to my mum and dad and sisters. It was such a happy moment, I was delighted to make my debut at such a young age. I came on late on and we grabbed a winner. It was crazy.

By the end of that year you were a World Cup winner!

It’s just like I said about everything happening so fast, but it’s one of the most special moments in my career so far. We were so young, travelling all that way and experiencing the weather and the culture there. To then actually win it was brilliant. We believed we could win it with the talent we had, but to actually do it was crazy. I worked with Steve Cooper during that time and he was such a great coach for us, his man management was so good in terms of getting the best out of us. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to come here.

We showed real character in the final, we were 2-0 down but we never panicked. To be honest, it never felt like we were 2-0 down, we were confident we were going to win the game and we did (5-2).

Sadly, during the game you were the victim of racist abuse from one of the Spanish players. How did that make you feel? With everything going on in the world right now, does it just show there is so much more to be done to fight racism in football, and in society at large?

Obviously, being the colour I am you get that discrimination from people. It was not something new, but it was new in terms of it happening in a game situation against a top team where you would expect that respect would be there. It did not upset me at the time, it motivated me to want to beat them and, within five minutes of it happening, I had scored the equaliser.

But there is so much to be done in every sport, in every part of society. We are all human at the end of the day, no-one should be treated differently because of the colour of their skin. The thing that matters is what sort of person you are, and the character you show. It’s the same with sexism, homophobia or anything like that, none of these things are acceptable. We are all human beings. I don’t think it’s fair that racism is still such an issue. So many of us want it to stop, and perhaps it never will, but anything that raises awareness and the more we do to support anti-racism causes can only help.

We all have to be strong together, build a sense of unity in society and I believe one day things will get a lot better than they are now.

You become a World Cup winner, and by the end of the season you are a Championship winner and a Premier League player?

It took a long time for those things to sink in, I think it took me until the second season in the Premier League to properly get my head around it. It’s a lot to take in, but I feel I have dealt with it. I am proud of what I have done so far, but it’s only a small step in my career. I want there to be a lot more to come.

I have to pinch myself sometimes, and I do feel a lot older than what I am, to be honest. So much has happened, but I feel it is a good thing because I feel I have grown up a lot because of it and dealt with it. I hope that can benefit Swansea and Wolves. And what do you hope to achieve at Swansea? A number of your former England Under-17 World Cup team-mates had successful spells here. Are you hoping to do the same?

I spoke to Rhian (Brewster) about his time down here and he said he loved every minute of it. When I got that sort of feedback and I saw the sort of impact he had down here with the goals he scored, I looked at it and thought maybe I can do that.

I am happy to be here and I cannot wait to impress the fans and show them everything I can do. I would love to follow on from what those guys did here because they were a massive part of what went on last season in trying to get back to where we should be.

That was one of the main reasons I wanted to come down here, because of their development, and I am hoping I can do the same and help the boys. I want to help Swansea City get back to where they should be.

Finally Morgan, how do you relax away from football. Do you have any hobbies or are you obsessed with the game?

I am a bit of a football obsessive. I have started to get into golf recently though, I started having lessons a week or two ago after playing for about a year.

I love the freedom of walking around a lovely course, Freddie Woodman told me about the courses at Fairwood and Pennard and they are beautiful courses. I play off about 18, I used to struggle with a driver but I’m starting to improve that.

I like gaming too, although not too much FIFA after I got robbed in the Premier League invitational last season, I had a box randomly appear in the bottom of the screen and I couldn’t see part of the pitch! I also like Call of Duty, so I do spend a bit of time on that.

JACK THE LAD

Painting and decorating duties meant I had to listen to our opening game of the new season at Preston on the radio rather than watching on Swans TV.

As I was slapping the paint onto the landing walls, the Radio Wales commentator kept referring to “Swansea City’s new lime green away kit”.

Lime green?

Now I must admit that back in the distant mists of time, I was told in school I was colour blind because I couldn’t see the hidden numbers in those multi-coloured dot tests they made us do.

Having subsequently carefully avoided a career in bomb disposal, or as an electrician, my apparent colour blindness had never caused me a problem and I’d pretty much forgotten about it.

So, I was relatively confident that the Swans away kit was in fact a rather nice shade of turquoise.

But the commentator’s insistence on referring to “Swansea’s lime green kit” every few minutes, was starting to get me worried as I approached the completion of the first coat.

I thought I was painting the walls a rather subtle shade of “sunrise yellow”. Not everyone’s cup of tea I admit, but the landing doesn’t get much natural sunlight! However, if my colour blindness was so bad that I couldn’t tell turquoise from lime green, was I in fact painting it “Jaffa orange” or some equally gaudy colour, rather than a soothing “sunrise yellow”?

You can never really tell what the colour is going to be from some of the weird and wonderful names they come up with for paint these days, but I had thought I was safe with my choice. Now I wasn’t so sure.

A quick visit to the Swans’ website allayed my fears.

There it was, in simple and unquestionable black and white. “The Jack Army will make a bold statement in a turquoise and raspberry away kit complete with a sharp and vivid design”.

Phew! My colour judgment wasn’t as bad as I had started to fear.

Talking of black and white. What about that Swans home kit?

I know black shorts are a controversial addition for some Swans fans, who would say we should be decked out in all white.

But black shorts, of course, are nothing new. If you look back through the club’s history, the team first ran out in black shorts in the 1935-36 season.

They have often been used as away game alternatives to white due to colour clashes, but they were regularly a permanent feature of Swans home kits during the 1950s and 60s.

The first home kit featuring black shorts I can remember was the Diversified Products strip from the 1985-86 season which, if I remember correctly, was pretty popular.

The most recent version before this season made an appearance in the 2009-2010 campaign, which I have to admit I wasn’t so fond of.

But I think this season’s home kit is the nicest we’ve had for many a season.

I’d even go as far as saying it’s one of the best we’ve had in the more than 40 years I’ve been supporting the club.

As a bit of an old fuddy-duddy, I’m not usually too keen on elaborate patterns on football kits, especially for the Swans.

But I do like the black feature on the bottom of the shirts - described as a “sublimated wave design on the shirt and sleeves, paying homage to the city’s coastline” in the club’s official blurb.

One of the things I particularly like about the kit is the choice of our new title sponsors.

To be perfectly honest, as a traditionalist, if I had my way there would be no main sponsor on the front of shirts.

I genuinely yearn for the days before shirt sponsorship was introduced. During lockdown, prior to live sport returning to TV, I watched countless old episodes of the Big Match and Match of the Day from the 1970s.

It was lovely watching matches between teams wearing shirts devoid of advertising.

However, I know I am living in the past and shirt sponsorship is a vital part of every club’s income ... even down to grassroots football.

I may not be a fan of how shirt advertising looks, but I am a huge fan of what it brings to football clubs and am realistic enough to realise how important it is to the survival of clubs.

And if we are to have a shirt sponsor, then I can think of few better than Swansea University.

It’s great to see two of Swansea’s greatest and longest-standing institutions joining forces in such a high-profile way.

Both the university and football club have been central to life in Swansea for longer than pretty much anyone can remember.

Of course, the Swans celebrated their centenary in successful fashion back in 2012-13 season, when they won the Capital One Cup.

The university is currently celebrating its centenary, albeit in a more low-key fashion than it would have wanted due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Despite this, it will be fantastic to see one great Swansea institution advertising another around the globe over the coming months.

Of course, this isn’t the first collaboration between football club and university and hopefully it won’t be the last.

The hook-up also means that the club’s younger fans will be able to wear exactly the same shirts as their heroes out on the pitch, due to the club’s decision to move away from sponsorship by betting companies. As someone who has enjoyed the occasional flutter (I say ‘enjoy’ despite generally losing money) I’ve nothing against responsible betting.

But it’s nice to see the Swans being part of the movement away from football’s growing reliance on betting companies as sponsors,with half of Premier League clubs and 17 out of 24 Championship clubs sponsored by bookmakers.

And what better way to do it than teaming up with a hugely respected and award-winning educational establishment right on the club’s doorstep.

The partnership can only be beneficial to both parties, and to all the young Swans who can now proudly wear the same shirts as the likes of Roberts, Rodon, Cabango and Ayew . . . whether those shirts are white, turquoise, or even lime green!

C’mon you Swans!

LYTTLE BY LYTTLE

“M y last words to all children leaving Thomas Telford at 16 are to make sure they play football.”

When Des Lyttle shared this advice and wisdom with one of his departing pupils, he could not have envisaged the huge strides that this young man would make in such a short space of time.

The young pupil in question was a certain Morgan Gibbs-White.

Former Swansea City defender Lyttle now works as the director of the football academy at Thomas Telford School in Shropshire, where over 60 players have enrolled before going on to embark on careers in the professional game.

His role involves nurturing promising young players, including those that are part of professional club academies, as well as those missing out on scholarships.

Undoubtedly the most notable player to cross his path was future Swansea loanee Gibbs-White – then progressing through the academy ranks at Wolves.

The attacking midfielder, who spent a couple of years under Lyttle’s guidance at Thomas Telford, arrived in South Wales in August with plenty of experience already under his belt when he made the season-long loan move from Wolves.

Indeed, within 18 months of leaving school, he had made his senior debut for Wolves in an FA Cup victory over Stoke and won the Under-17s World Cup with England under Steve Cooper – all before his 18th birthday. Gibbs-White has gone on to make over 30 Premier League appearances for Nuno Espirito Santo’s side, who he also represented in last season’s Europa League.

He certainly hit the ground running with the Swans, scoring the winner on his league debut in the 1-0 win at Preston.

A n d Ly tt l e, w h o m a d e 5 3 appearances for the Swans during the 1992-93 season, is well aware of the exciting qualities that the 20-year-old can bring to the table for his old club this season.

“We could always see Morgan had great talent,” he said.

“He’s a footballer who can pick a pass and score a goal and, in and out of possession, he works really hard.

“At school, Morgan was always the player who got on the ball and made things happen.

“I think he can do that in the Championship, and hopefully he’ll be a good acquisition and a key player for Swansea.

“When he left us, you’d never have known that in just under a year, he’d be playing minutes in the Premier League.

“He’s already travelled the world, experienced different styles of football and played with some fantastic players.

“In Nuno, he has a manager at Wolves that likes him, which helps, but he must have been doing all the right things to impress.

“He’s created a name for himself, but playing football week in week out, this will really test him.

“My last words to all children leaving Thomas Telford at 16 are to make sure they play football.

“It’s brilliant that Morgan is in and around the first team at Wolves, but this season will be a telling one for him.

“It’s an opportunity for him to step up. He’s gone to a fantastic club in Swansea, who play the right way, and Steve will be able to guide him along the right track.

“If his attitude is right and he has that willingness, I think he could have a fantastic season and it will open the door for him in his career.”

Since taking the job in 2013, Lyttle has enjoyed great success with Thomas Telford in the English Schools’ FA National Cup. The FA Cup-style competition sees more than 600 schools from across the country compete over 10 rounds for the chance to play at a selected EFL stadium in the final.

Gibbs-White himself experienced success in the competition, which Lyttle believes proved hugely instrumental in his development.

“We have a fantastic intake at Thomas Telford. We have around 40 academy players from Wolves, West Brom, Walsall, Shrewsbury and Port Vale,” he explains.

“It’s a given that if they come here, they must play for the school.

“The English Schools’ FA National Cup is the main competition we enter and strive for. “You must usually come through 10 rounds to get to the final and travel all around the country, so there is a real FA Cup feeling about it.

“Last year, the final was played at The Hawthorns. We’ve also played at Reading, Stoke and Derby. It’s a day that these kids never forget.

“ There are normally a few thousand people there watching and it’s a fantastic occasion.

“Morgan has spoken highly about his National Cup experiences with us.

“When these academy players play on a Saturday, there isn’t too much on the games. But playing for your school in a national cup is a big thing.

“Morgan was in a fantastic group at the time; his age group won the double and he was also part of my under-18 side that won a competition at Cambridge.”

Like Gibbs-White, Lyttle was just 20 years old when he made the move to South Wales to join Swansea.

T h e d e f e n d e r b e g a n h i s professional career at Leicester City, before joining non-league Worcester City on a free transfer after failing to make a first-team appearance for the Foxes.

An impressive debut season with Worcester alerted several Football League clubs, with newly-promoted Second Division Swansea capturing his signature in July 1992 for a fee of £12,500.

“Worcester were a big club in nonleague football and really thriving in those days. There was talk of clubs coming to watch lots of our players,” says Lyttle.

“There was talk that a few clubs were interested, but Swansea put in an offer and I signed for them.

“Once a league club comes in for you, it’s a no-brainer.

“It was a big move at that time going from non-league back into the Football League, but I still had that belief that I could make the grade and play professional football.

“I kept my desire and tried to do things the right way and live like a professional; I think I got my rewards by doing things right.”

After making his debut in the 1-0 defeat by Burnley on the opening day of the 1992-93 season, Lyttle made the right-back spot his own under Frank Burrows.

He appeared 53 times in all competitions as the Swans finished fifth on their return to the third tier, before suffering play-off semi-final heartbreak at the hands of West Bromwich Albion.

Despite the disappointing conclusion, Lyttle looks back on the campaign with fond memories.

“Frank put his trust in me, and I played pretty much every game that season,” he says.

“We had a good bunch of lads who gelled really well. Training was always at a good intensity and we had great camaraderie in the dressing room. “We were all pulling in the same direction on and off the pitch. Everyone was in it together and I think that’s why we were so successful.

“To sample the play-offs in my first full season as a pro was brilliant. The atmosphere for both legs was fantastic.

“As you can imagine, everybody was sad and disappointed to lose. I went home to Wolverhampton after the second leg, but I think the bus would have been very quiet.

“Everyone was very proud of what we’d achieved, though.

“West Brom were a big club at the time and probably with a much bigger budget than ours, so for us to just miss out was a great achievement.”

Once again, Lyttle’s displays drew attention from elsewhere and he eventually joined Nottingham Forest – recently relegated from the top tier – for £375,000 ahead of the 1993-94 campaign.

“I came back to pre-season with Swansea and there was talk that a few clubs were interested in me,” he recalls.

“A few days after running down the Mumbles and the sand dunes, Frank told me he wanted to see me in his office back at The Vetch.

“I thought it was to discuss a new deal because I was out of contract the following year.

“But he told me the club had accepted an offer from Nottingham Forest and that they wanted to see me the following day.

“My head was spinning because just a year earlier, I was still playing non-league football and I had played one season in the Football League. Then just a couple of days later, I was sitting next to Stuart Pearce, who was England captain at the time, going on Forest’s preseason tour.

“I couldn’t believe how things had changed for me over the course of that year.”

Lyttle went on to spend six seasons with Forest – helping them gain promotion to the Premier League on two occasions, as well as reaching the UEFA Cup quarterfinals in 1996 before losing to eventual winners Bayern Munich.

He also played for Watford and West Brom in the top-flight before finishing his career with spells at Northampton, Forest Green, Worcester and Tamworth.

The former defender also had brief stints in charge of the latter and Hucknall Town, as well as serving as first-team coach at York City under Gary Mills before embarking on his current role with Thomas Telford.

Yet, even with those ties to a number of clubs, Lyttle maintains a soft spot for the Swans.

Like most in these parts, he was glued to the TV on the final day of last season as the Swans snatched sixth place in the Championship following their dramatic win at Reading.

H o w e v e r, h e a d m i t s h e experienced mixed emotions when the final whistle blew given the drama saw another of his former clubs miss out.

“That evening, I had three of my former clubs playing in West Brom, Forest and Swansea,” he laughs.

“I’d just finished playing golf and was sat in the bar flicking through the matches.

“People ask me what the first results I look for on a Saturday are, and it’s virtually all of my former clubs. “I always want Swansea to do well. The goal difference swung in their favour and I was really pleased for them but, at the same time, disappointed that they knocked Forest out of the play-offs!”

The Swans narrowly missed out on the play-off final after their 3-2 aggregate defeat by Brentford.

But having watched them go agonisingly close last term, Lyttle is hopeful that a return to the Premier League is not too far away for his former club.

“Last season was another great one for Swansea,” he said. “They’ve bounced back from the disappointment of relegation from the Premier League a couple of years ago.

“They play great football, which is one thing I always associate with them. They have changed their manager a few times over the years, but they’ve generally seemed to keep the style and identity.

“Hopefully, they can kick on from reaching the play-offs last season and maintain that winning mentality and desire to get back to the Premier League.”

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SWANS ACADEMY BY NIGEL REES

Good afternoon everybody/Prynhawn da pawb. This continues to be a very challenging time in terms of the COVID-19 restrictions and, unfortunately, we have had to suspend our training schedule for all players under the age of 16.

This is a very frustrating and challenging time for players, parents and coaches, particularly as we were back to being fully operational and with a very happy group of players. The local lockdown guidelines have meant further disruption to the academy environment, but the safety of our players and staff is paramount.

The under-23 squad had an excellent season last year and have started this campaign with an emphatic win against Cardiff City in the Professional Development League programme. The players have trained really well over the course of the last week and are in a good position for their upcoming games. This season we will again be working with a young group of players. The squad has changed substantially since last season with a large number of the players making the transition into the first-team environment. The opportunity and challenge is now for our younger players to step up and push for their chance to become first-team players. The improvement of our players during the past two seasons has shown that our development programme is very effective, and that everybody associated within the club and academy is fully committed to achieving our ultimate objective of preparing our players for first-team football.

The under-18 squad recently played Cardiff City in the league. This is always an eagerly-awaited fixture and the game was, as always, very competitive. Our young Swans battled throughout the game and showed a great deal of quality during the second half, which resulted in a 3-1 victory. Unfortunately, the squad lost to Bristol City in their last fixture but again our players showed signs of development and, as always, were very committed and hardworking throughout the game. The next game for them sees a trip to Millwall. The players have been excellent during the course of the lockdown period and showed a great deal of commitment to their individual training and development.

All our players were given individual training plans to work on during the lockdown and we tried to have regular contact via various social media platforms and online meetings. We also established a Facebook page to support players and parents with nutritional information, as well as regular psychology workshops for both players and parents.

The academy programme requires a great deal of dedication, hard work, commitment and sacrifice and I am extremely proud of all the players involved in our academy during this very difficult time. On a personal note, I would like to thank all of my staff during this challenging time. I am very proud of all the dedication shown by everybody associated with the academy programme during the pandemic. The challenges have been unprecedented, but everybody has done their very best to support the players through this process.

In the current climate, and as the academy continues to progress and improve, one of the areas we continue to develop is our psychology and nutrition provision. Both programmes are now fully operational within the academy structure and are delivered via player education sessions, parent education sessions and individualised drop-in sessions. This is an area that we have proactively been developing over the last year and we are fortunate to be able to access the expertise that is available to us through our partnership with Swansea University.

Hopefully the next few weeks will see a positive step towards our players returning to training and eventually playing games again

Enjoy the game this afternoon!