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I love this picture here. You look so cheeky already.
We do look very cute there.
If she was here today, to see you
She’d be sat right here.
Speaking to us.
So Kalvin, let’s start off with your Mum
Of course.
Just talk about how important she's been to the point of getting here,
sat on this sofa today.
She's one of the main reasons why I'm doing
what I'm doing. Without her I probably wouldn't be in this position.
I wouldn’t have the amazing people around me as well, so
Yeah, I owe everything to my Mum.
Love that picture,
How old are you there?
Don’t even know!
I honestly don't know.
We've got a few other family pictures as well.
So this is your younger sister.
So just talk us through the relationship that you’ve got, because
you're the oldest in your family.
So talk about that role being big brother.
I’m sure you’re super protective.
Yeah, that's what I try to do.
Try to be there for them all and, you know, look after them
when they need looking after and tell them off, when they need telling off.
Do you have to do that often.
No, not much to be honest.
And also, just looking at this gorgeous little baby picture here.
So obviously you’ve got your twin here today
and you’re super close with her, but you were obviously a triplet as well.
What is the relationship like and how is it different?
We've got an amazing relationship to be fair.
She lives with me at the minute as well.
So yeah, she’s a little bit of a pain somtimes but,
The relationship we've got is amazing
and you know, there is times where
There’s been certain things where we either text each other on about something
and she'll say, “Oh my God, I've had the same dream.”
or had the same thought as well.
Your little brother there as well, I love this picture, it’s looks so
so cheeky already.
So you've spoken before, I think, about your brother.
You used to play Sunday League together and talked about being quite protective
of anyone who used to go in on a hard tackle. - Yeah.
I think it's just the nature of being, you know, big brother.
From a young age I've always wanted to look after him.
I've always wanted to be there for him.
And, you know, even though he's bigger than me now.
Matching outfits nowadays as well or?
Oh no! To be fair, I used to to moan my mum all the time about matching,
she used to always get as matching and I can remember being younger and always
saying to my mum “No, I don’t want the same clothes as Terrell, I want to have different clothes”,
You know, we do look very cute there so.
Then this,
I mean the picture is great in itself, the thing I love
because everyone's got this when we all first had Instagram,
The hashtags,
Were the caption so for me the whole #instamania
#sharepage, #followme,
you’ve got nearly 800,000 followers! - Oh no!
#followme I'm just obsessed with.
The this was our prom obviously a big deal for me and my sister
and Gran came over and had a little bit of champagne with us
You even had a bit of #champagne - Yeah!
And it was just a nice moment obviously
you know, a picture to go with it and obviously, my Gran’s no
longer here with us, so it’s just nice pictures to remember her by.
Yeah, it's so nice.
And then we’ve got picture of your siblings.
Mum, you talk a lot about family and how those sort of values
really make you who you are.
Just talk us through the importance of everyone in this photo.
It's hard to put into words, to be honest.
I think like I said before, the reason that I do
this and, you know, I want to make,
you know, everyone proud is because of these guys.
And, you know, my family.
I always want to do the best I can for them, and I always want to make them proud
and sometimes, you know, I can get lost in my own little world,
and make decisions without them.
I think the most important decisions I’ve made.
I’ve always had them close and, you know, this is one of them
so, you know, I'm happy that I’ve involved them all in it.
Next, obviously, we've got
Granny Val here.
I feel like everyone feels like they just know her.
If she was here today and was to see you sat here what would she be saying?
Would she be saying, have you checked and signed the contract?
She’d be sat right here, speaking to us.
Obviously, you know,
she was an amazing woman.
And you know, you could
you can tell before as well when you know I was supposedly going to leave Leeds.
She had a big say in that and I think, you know,
she would have been happy with my decision.
She would have always wanted me to follow my dreams.
And now I've always wanted to play for the best teams.
And, you know, Man City is one of the best teams in the world.
So I think she'd be pretty happy,
I think so.
I think so. It's hard to say.
But she’d definitely be proud of me.
I know that. - It's not too far from Leeds though,
It’s only up the M62.
Yeah, I know
It’s not too far. - She’d have been happy with it.
And we've got this ridiculous goal as well.
Yeah, I don’t score many goals like that anymore
I was going to say, are we going to see a couple of those next season?
That was against United as well.
To be fair so, - Yeah.
You know, a lot of Man city fans will be happy about that.
Yeah, I'd like to recreate it obviously, I don’t really
score many goals now so, you know,
hopefully in the next few seasons and you know, add a few more.
Love this
Can you remember what you were doing at that time?
I was speaking to Luke Ayling in front of me, but I didn't even know
the camera was recording,
I had just seen the camera and just
I don't know what I was doing, I just did that
somebody recorded it and sent me it.
Have to get one in the tunnel at The Etihad. - Yeah! I know.
This is a really powerful picture
and you've put in your caption,
how about how proud you are, of your Jamaican heritage. Just talk us through that.
It was more of just what was going on at the time
and obviously still goes on now. It’s about racism in football
and not just in, in England, but all around the world.
And you know, it's just a moment where
I wanted to show that, you know, I'm proud of my heritage and,
you know, where I come from and you know my background as well.
And then looking back to your time at Leeds, we've obviously
just talk us through this with Bielsa.
To be fair, this is the first time I'd ever,
you know, been
emotionally hugged by him and me hugging him back.
It was, he wasn’t a manager that, you know, really got close to his players.
He was very reserved and, you know, I think that was just
the icing on the cake when we got promoted and to see him as happy as what he was.
Obviously moving on to England, now,
so your first ever call up, just where were you?
What were you doing? And,
What was the first thought as soon as you got that call?
I was in the car on the way to football.
I was late, so I was rushing to football,
I got a phone call from my agent and he said that he's got somebody that's
going to call me and then didn't tell me who it was.
He put the phone down, 2 minutes later the phone rang and I answered,
and as soon as Gareth said hello,
I knew who it was and I didn't say anything for a good 5 seconds
I bet he thought that he got the wrong number,
or I was going to put the phone down on him, but it was just because I was speechless
that, you know, said that he wanted me to be involved and it's an amazing feeling.
I can imagine!
Jack, you have quite a good friendship with Jack.
Yeah.
What’s he said ahead of the move?
He’s very happy, he facetimed me
when I was on holiday to be fair,
said that he’s going to be so happy for me if it happens
And he was nice.
And, you know, I've known Jack for years I played against him for years and
you know, to eventually play on the same team,
you know at club level, it'd be a nice feeling,
you know, just to be around him he's a nice lad
and very cheeky as well.
So you know, I get along with him pretty well.
And then obviously we've got this Euro’s picture here with Kyle.
Obviously, Kyle is such a character, but he's great
because he's got so much experience with him.
He's such a leader as well in his own right.
Just talk about playing alongside him, obviously for England
and then coming to play with him now.
I got along with him as soon as, when I first went there, he used to walk past me like,
Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, Leeds, Yorkshire, Yorkshire used to scream Yorkshire at me
and you know, it's just how he is and
you know, he's a good lad and
a very good footballer as well so
I'm looking forward to playing with him.
You spoke about Granny Val earlier.
Unfortunately, obviously she didn't get to see you in the Euros,
but it was such a nice way for you to mark it here with the shirt.
What would she have made
watching you in that tournament and the performances that you had?
Yeah, she’d have been really happy
She’d obviously, probably
give me a little bit of stick for not taking a penalty in the final, but
No, she would have been really happy
I know that she’s always looking down on me.
But it was nice to see pictures like this because it just reminds me that,
you know, she's a special person and,
you know, everything that I do and the family do is for her
and in memory of her.
That brings us to the end.
But thank you so much, Kalvin.
It’s been great catching up with you over those
Appreciate you sharing that with us.
Thank you. It's been a pleasure.