Chester Challenging City Rivals (Charlotte Costello interview)

Chester FC Women were assembled in the summer of 2015 after detailed work on the finances of running an open-age team, led by Chester FC Community Trust and its chief executive Jon McCarthy. Charlotte Costello describes a slow start caused by an extremely short pre-season while a whole squad was recruited, and a side now sitting in the top five of the Cheshire League and exceeding expectations. The high was a six-two win over Vauxhall Motors; the low, leading Stockport County, going five-two down, pulling back to five-five in the eighty-ninth minute and conceding in the ninety-third. Her long-term ambition is a child buying a replica shirt with Phoebe Graham’s or Chloe Johnson’s name on the back.