Left Foot Forward

Irati Vidal talks to the Spain left-back now getting the regular WSL football she wanted, almost three years after signing for Chelsea. Bernabe found England tougher than expected, from the intensity and media pressure to eating early and darkness at three in the afternoon, and is frank that ten minutes every five games under Sonia Bompastor was not enough. Liverpool gave her minutes immediately, though a hamstring injury cost her eight months. She rates Melwood the best training ground she has seen and says the club make the women feel as important as the men. Her number 29 honours Fernando Torres, whose Atletico, Liverpool and Chelsea path she has coincidentally retraced.