Locker Room – Kit Check: Jen Jennings

The She Kicks Locker Room’s Kit Check slot turns the tables on Durham defender Jen Jennings, who is also a PE teacher at Acklam Grange School. She cannot recall her first boots beyond some black Umbro ones with a white tongue, now wears Nike Tiempos, and remembers a grey and silver pair of Adidas F50s with yellow webbing that she loved and believes are still boxed up at her mam’s house. Jennings keeps two pairs for training and games plus several old ones in the spare room, wearing trainers daily for work, and passes old boots into the dreaded spare kit cupboard at school. A Newcastle fan, she would kiss Alan Shearer’s boot, owns no football shirts at all, and recalls oversized multicoloured kits as a child. Scented footwear balls in her bag keep her boots and shin pads from smelling.