The She Kicks Locker Room: Tweets for #ballers

The magazine’s recurring Twitter slot puts two questions to its followers. Asked what they crave after ninety minutes, respondents offer a cold can of coke with crisps and chocolate followed by a roast dinner, post-match hot chocolate with two young daughters, Chinese food, and pizza on Sundays. One reply jokes about craving oxygen rather than food, another about a wine intake directly affected by whether the team won or lost, with painkillers alongside the Sunday dinner. The second question, on what players do with their stinky shin pads, draws the admission that they simply go back in the bag and stay there, meeting deodorant only after a team-mate has complained. It is a brief, deliberately light exchange of dressing-room habits.