The She Kicks Locker Room: Kit Check with Ellie Roebuck (Manchester City)

Fresh from winning the FA WSL Golden Glove, Manchester City’s young England goalkeeper submits to a survey of her boots, gloves and shirts. She started in green Reusch gloves and black Adidas Copa boots and is now in PUMA throughout, the pink and yellow One 20.1s from the Rise Pack, which she rates chiefly for the colour. The numbers are the striking part: more than 25 pairs of trainers, eight pairs of boots and ten pairs of gloves, plus a declared love of trainers. Beyond her own she owns just two goalkeeper shirts, both Sheffield United ones with Paddy Kenny on the back. And she has kept every single shirt she has ever played in, organised in match-date order – a small, exact detail that says as much about her as the rest of the page.