Tournament feature
This Is England (Lionesses media huddles at St George’s Park)
She Kicks, issue 74, July 2022 pp.18–22
The England squad in their own words, from an hour of media huddles at St George’s Park days before a home European Championship they went on to win. Nineteen players speak. Leah Williamson describes the captaincy as responsibility rather than pressure and says she is not pretending to know the answers. Keira Walsh explains the squad’s plan to stay off social media. Jill Scott, at her tenth tournament, was told face to face by Sarina Wiegman, who wanted it that way. Chloe Kelly could not open the envelope containing her Panini sticker, her hands were shaking so much. Beth England recalls three and a half years of night shifts in a chip shop that paid her through college, and Lucy Bronze remembers wearing boots a size too small right through EURO 2013.
