Locker Room – Before & After: Christie Murray

The She Kicks Locker Room’s Before and After slot follows Scotland midfielder Christie Murray, reunited with Glasgow City after four years taking in Arsenal, Bristol Academy, Celtic and Doncaster Rovers Belles. For a 2pm kick-off she has porridge in the morning then eggs and a coffee before leaving, and always cuts her socks so they match the ones she trains in daily. Club and country feel much the same, she says, though nothing compares to pulling on the Scotland shirt for the anthem. Murray prepares by visualising situations and reinforcing what has gone well in training, calms nerves with slower music and by filing her nails, and names Emma Mitchell and Lisa Evans as the squad’s jokers. She recovers with an ice bath, skins and her mum’s roast dinner, and is learning Spanish.