The She Kicks Locker Room: Kit Check with Chloe Kelly (Manchester City)

The Locker Room’s kit slot, put to Manchester City’s number nine as she came back into the side and back among the goals. Chloe Kelly’s first boots were Umbro, still at her mother’s house with mud on them; she wears Nike Mercurial Superflys now and has no all-time favourite pair beyond a general rule that she is a bright-boot kind of girl. Old boots go home if they are worth keeping and straight in the bin after a bad game, though she has kept her debut pair and the ones from her first hat-trick. Growing up in a family of seven she always had a numbered QPR shirt reading Kelly 7. The one revealing answer is the tape she wears round her wrist, carrying written reminders about staying focused, begun while returning from injury.