The She Kicks Locker Room: The Menu with Melissa Lawley (Liverpool)

The Locker Room’s food slot goes to Liverpool and England forward Melissa Lawley, who opens by disqualifying fish entirely – the smell of salmon or tuna, on her plate or anyone else’s – while making a careful exception for fish fingers. The things she would eat more of if she were not an athlete are Chinese and pizza, and her ideal treat is a beef fried rice with curry sauce, a side of chilli chips and a can of Vimto. Pre-match is porridge or spaghetti and sausage on toast; post-match depends on the club, though she notes Reading used to order in Nando’s and England lay on pizza and wedges at the end of a camp. She can cook but admits to being lazy about it, and her birthday request is a Victoria sponge with a lemon drizzle on the side.