Interview
Local Legend
Her Goal, issue 4, March 2026 pp.12–18
The cover interview finds the EURO-winning left-back captaining Newcastle United’s WSL 2 promotion push, two summers after leaving Manchester City for home. Stokes corrects the record on her birthplace, Birmingham rather than South Shields, and talks about family being close again, the daft but caring squad culture, and Morgan Gautrat’s resistance to beans at breakfast. She advises younger players to be footballers first and let the brand deals follow, describes converting from winger to left-back by studying Marcelo, Dani Alves and Lucy Bronze, and frames EURO 2022 as relief for every England player who came before. After playing, she fancies the fire service.