The She Kicks Locker Room: The Before & After with Nicola Davidson

Nicola Davidson, with more than 500 appearances for Forfar Farmington, describes her matchday. She varies her pre-match food week to week between cereal, porridge, toast with peanut butter and yoghurt with fruit, and for home games the club chaplain Susan Forbes prepares food for the squad. She keeps no rituals beyond a few jumps and sprints before kick-off and at the start of the second half, and has one set of underwear reserved for match days. Nerves are good nerves. She admits to being very hard on herself, maybe too hard. Recovery means an ice bath or foam rolling and eating properly, and her recovery day is spent at work as an early years practitioner.