View From The Field: Kerys Kicks (Kerys Harrop column)

Birmingham’s captain writes from pre-season with the new WSL campaign three weeks off, picking out Lucy Bronze’s move to Lyon and Toni Duggan’s to Barcelona as the summer’s key departures and predicting the most competitive league yet. Her own club’s pre-season has produced a 22-0 win over West Bromwich Albion in which Ellen White and Charlie Wellings scored five apiece, plus a cookery masterclass, clay pigeon shooting and a Snowdon climb she hopes will be matched by the league table. She was in Breda for England against Spain as a guest of Birmingham’s sister club Ross Juniors, congratulates the Dutch on a tournament won in front of their own nation, and looks forward to facing Vivianne Miedema.