Family Ties (Charlie Estcourt interview)

Three pages with the Coventry United and Wales full-back, published a fortnight before Wales faced France in Llanelli with qualification still live. Charlie Estcourt has been in the senior squad since she was 16 and talks about the anthem, her family and a dressing room that has come to feel like one; she is clear that what has changed under Gemma Grainger is belief, built on the defensive solidity Jayne Ludlow left behind and a new confidence in possession. She is candid about still trying to force her way into a side containing Jess Fishlock and Sophie Ingle, about being run at by Nikita Parris and Lucy Bronze at left-back, and about the difficult season at Coventry United, whose off-field collapse at Christmas she says made the group closer and more resilient.