England Players Quiz: New Year’s Resolutions

A picture quiz in which Alex Scott, jogging alongside team-mates during the bleep test at England’s January training camp in La Manga, collected New Year’s resolutions from eighteen of the squad. Readers are invited to match each anonymous speech bubble to the correct floating player’s head, with the answers printed on page 46. The resolutions range from the practical to the domestic: saving money, getting fitter after an injury-hit 2011, finishing coaching badges, giving up Coca-Cola and failing already, learning to cook Caribbean food rather than relying on a grandmother, taking up bikram yoga, planning a wedding, and booking a trip to Thailand. Two players decline the premise entirely, one saying targets should be set every day rather than waiting for New Year. Jill Scott, Fara Williams and Ellen White are among those taking part.