Magnificent (Ella Toone interview, with Ella… On The Spot)

Ella Toone topped Manchester United’s scoring and assists charts in her first proper WSL season, and describes a lockdown spent working on everything that had kept her out of the side. She was walking the dog when Phil Neville rang with a first England call-up, and rang her father, her mother and Abbie McManus straight afterwards. On her debut against Northern Ireland she took a penalty and scored, having felt confident the moment the ball was in her hands. She is frank about not being offered a professional contract by Manchester City at eighteen, about staying off her phone for days after games, and about three years of work with a psychologist. A quickfire panel gets Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Ibiza and, eventually, Roy Keane.