Flynn Downes interview: I’m living the dream at West Ham but training is a wake-up call

It is fair to say that when Flynn Downes arrived at Swansea in the summer of 2021, he did not expect to find leaving the Welsh club only a year later so difficult.

“I was a bit cautious about going,” he says, before adding, sheepishly: “To be honest, I’d heard Swansea was a bit of a s***hole.”