Blue Moon And Maple Spirit (Janine Beckie interview)

Janine Beckie is a forward who has spent the season at right-back, and she is disarming about it: defending is not the best part of her game, she had no expectations going in, and the club’s willingness to play her out of position she reads as a compliment. The more revealing thread is temperament. She calls herself an overthinker, self-critical to the point that coaches have told her to stop thinking so much, and describes learning not to watch her clips straight after a bad performance. Where she once forced herself to be serious and hyped before games, she now goes in relaxed, which she credits to a confident dressing room. She is also, by virtue of owning the loudest speaker, Manchester City’s team DJ.