On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career." Sophie Neal is a fashion, food and lifestyle blogger who loves exploring new places. She rediscovered her love of netball and joined a local team.

I wear the number 10 Jersey for the US National Team in honor of the greatest athlete I have ever seen: Messi!" - Kobe Bryant Ange Postecoglou DOES have Celtic qualifications says former A-League chief as he calms UEFA licence fears My style of play has always been the same. I never tried to develop a specific style. From very young I just played this way." It was the kit, the name... and that was it. I was hooked. That inspired my following of them and I followed them ever since.All of this, of course, is of no significance whatsoever to my new job, other than to explain that my life and football have long since been intertwined, to the point that now that they are inextricably so. Just before I was about to walk off in a huff and watch raindrops race down the window, my dad arrived and pointed out, rather excitedly, that the man over there is Martin O’Neill and he’s won two European Cups. So why, I asked, is he on holiday in Carlisle?

Kirby’s old school friend Sarah Davern, of South View Avenue, Caversham, was at Wembley on Sunday. She said: “Fran got me really good seats. It was brilliant to watch her win, especially when you think we were once just two kids playing in a field. Three years ago I approached Newry councillor Michael Savage to ask about the possibility of having a statue," said McAllister. However if you "support" them purely because they're a big club and you just want the bragging rights to massage your superiority complex, then I've no respect for you whatsoever. These are usually the people who talk loudest when "their" team is doing well. Even worse are the "fans" who switch allegiance when a different club becomes flavour of the month, e.g. you never saw many adults outside Manchester going around in Man City shirts until a few years ago (I know someone who "supports" City even though he "supported" Man Utd during the 90s-00s!) , or Chelsea supporters hundreds of miles away from London before they started doing really well under Abramovich.In truth, the very best players rarely stayed for long. They had been signed up by academies (usually Sunderland or Middlesbrough) or were instead focused on 11-a-side but it was my mini field of dreams made up of bruising wooden floors, rope netting, angry parents, a welcome poster that read “Shearer, Beardsley, Bruce… all Wallsend Boys Club” and a TV upstairs on which Newcastle’s finest seasons in decades were being played out. Jennings' haul of 119 caps was a record for the Northern Ireland men's team until he was surpassed by current captain Steven Davis in October 2020.

In nine years, she has gone from playing home games on Wandsworth Common to walking out at Champion Hill, a 3,000-capacity stadium. It also happens to be the ground at which, in 2008, I reported on a football match for the first time and began my second football career, which has now led me to The Athletic. But Ndiaye, who moved to London when he was 14 and played for Boreham Wood’s youth teams before joining Sheffield United in 2019, appears to be taking it all in his stride. “At every match the supporters are behind us no matter what the score is,” he said diplomatically, although he has yet to live the experience of scoring a goal in front of them at the Stade Vélodrome. “It made me happy to do it against Monaco – I had been waiting for this moment for a long time.” Ronaldo was my hero. I loved watching players like Zidane, Ronaldinho, and Rivaldo, but Ronaldo was the best striker I've ever seen."My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me." I would pass onto any young player to enjoy your football, play your football as you want to play the game, try and enjoy it and make the most of it." I think she is going to be a real inspiration to the current pupils and further fuel and ignite the passions for women’s football. The newsletter will arrive every day at 12pm, giving you a round up of the best stories we've covered that in the last 24 hours. Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet." – Arda Turan