The She Kicks Locker Room: The Menu with Phoebe Williams (Southampton)

The Locker Room’s food slot, with Southampton’s vice-captain and England youth international, whose FA Cup run had just been ended by Ipswich Town while the Southern Premier title race was still simmering. Phoebe Williams cannot stand Brussels sprouts, and the food she would eat more of if she were not an athlete is chicken burgers and roast dinners with everything on. A treat meal out is pizza, or a curry with naan, rice and onion bhajis; the pre-match staple is a bagel with beans; and post-match is pizza again, or whatever she fancies. At half-time she takes nothing but an energy gel before kick-off, though gels, bananas and hydration drinks are all provided. In the kitchen she is working on it, with a recent prawn linguine her signature, and she wants a Victoria sponge for her birthday.