The She Kicks Locker Room: Kit Check with Hannah Godfrey (Tottenham Hotspur)

Tottenham’s defender, three years in American college football behind her and a Scotland debut a year old, submits to a survey of her boots and shirts. Her first were the smallest pair of black Umbro boots, still in a cupboard at home; she now favours all-black Nike Phantoms or blackout Puma Futures, though the black and red Adidas Predators of her youth remain the ones that made her feel cool. Old boots go to younger players, to those less fortunate, or to her cousins, who love it when she delivers them. She kept every up-to-date kit she was given as a birthday present and has added Spurs and Scotland playing shirts. The most special is her Scotland debut shirt: they won and she scored, so she will treasure it forever.