JILL SCOTT
Jun 05, 2019
4 minutes
What’s your first football memory?
Probably playing for a boys’ team when I was seven, being named player of the match and getting a trophy with ‘Man of the Match’ on it. They wanted to change the inscription to ‘Girl of the Match’, but I kicked up a fuss and didn’t let them change it – I didn’t want anyone to think I’d only won because I was the only girl in the team. A local paper got wind of it and wrote a story. The headline read: ‘Jill is proud to be a man’, which was pretty embarrassing.
Was it tough being the only girl in the team?
Yeah. I used to get a lot of stick,
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