The She Kicks Locker Room: What’s On Your Phone? With Deanna Cooper

The Reading defender, who signed up that summer for another two years with the club, hands over her phone. The last call was to her sister; the most important person in it is her mum, just because she is her mum. The last message went to her friend Penny Stern, answering how her day was going, and the last picture she took was a selfie of fan mail that arrived that morning from a mascot at the weekend. The busiest WhatsApp group is not a football one at all but the building she lives in, which she reports has a lot of drama in it. Instagram is the favourite platform, Sia’s Unstoppable the last song played, a shopping-list app the last download, and TikTok the guilty pleasure, blamed on a teammate.