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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." As a runner, I’m used to training solo and sometimes it can be a mental battle to keep going. However, through joining a sports team I realised that I’d been missing out on the support, praise and encouragement from teammates. Being active together means you encourage each other to go that extra mile. Being accountable for the whole team rather than just myself is a huge motivator.” Read more on Laura’s blog. She has been so courteous, professional and humble in all her media appearances, which is typical of the Fran we know. Before if I lost or did something wrong I didn't talk to anyone for three or four days until it passed. Now, I come home after a game, I see my son, and everything is alright. " As time went by and the commencement of cup and league football caused the best to swallow up the lesser clubs in any area, displaced fans gravitated towards those that survived. Over time, travel from city to city became easier, and increased newspaper and wireless coverage made the most successful clubs attractive to fans. It became OK to live in Tranmere and go to watch Everton (who played at Anfield..!!) every week.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way." Gennaro Gattuso, the Marseille manager, has known Brighton’s Roberto De Zerbi for years. Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images Just to hear people saying and thinking that makes me very proud indeed. But I try not to think about it too much and just focus on enjoying everything that I have in this life."I have seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentine football and his name is Messi. Messi is a genius." – Diego Maradona Because he was with Wycombe Wanderers, who were in the hotel the night before their first Football League game. O’Neill the manager, Cousins the captain. Flynn added: "Jamille is completely different to what we've currently got, he's proven at this level. He's got promotion from this level. He's a real handful."

Jennings played for Northern Ireland at the 1982 and 1986 World Cups, making the final appearance of his 22-year international career in a 3-0 defeat by Brazil at the latter tournament in Mexico. Watford were playing in the 1984 Cup final, so I turned it on being a Watford fan, and then watched the game and there was just something that said I have to support the blue team. My grocer, Richard, is a passionate Brentford fan of 30 years’ standing. I was worried about him, but when I dropped by to see him, he just smiled and shrugged and said: “That’s football.” He puts me to shame. I want to be more like Richard. I am a normal person. I have the same life as any human being. When I finish playing, doing my work, I have my family, my friends, and I live like any other person." One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost."

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Messi or Ronaldo best player in the world? In the world, I would say Ronaldo. Messi is from another planet." – Arda Turan The 43-year-old has been out of work since the start of last season and has been linked with a string of clubs but was expected to take the Celtic job. This became a depressingly obvious flaw during my brief 11-a-side career in which I watched balls float over me into the top corner of the goal (or in most cases, nowhere near the top corner, just into the net at little over head-high). 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.

Kidadl provides inspiration to entertain and educate your children. We recognise that not all activities and ideas are appropriate and suitable for all children and families or in all circumstances. Our recommended activities are based on age but these are a guide. We recommend that these ideas are used as inspiration, that ideas are undertaken with appropriate adult supervision, and that each adult uses their own discretion and knowledge of their children to consider the safety and suitability. 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? Use the hashtag #WomenInSport and tag @Vitality_UK to share your experience of team sports. Whether you’re joining a new team or have played for years, help inspire other women to take part. I go out and do the best I can in each game, and I don't think about the fouls other players will commit or whether I might be injured. It only does you harm to worry about those things." In 1986 I was just six years old when I watched Mike Tyson become the youngest heavyweight champion in history.She said: “Me and Fran kept to each other as we weren’t very popular at school. We were both tomboys and it wasn’t cool to be a girl playing football. Speaking about her time at Caversham Trents, she said: “I was the only girl on the team but I loved it. I had a lot of friends in the team and I am still friends with some of them now.”

I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year. It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success." The only real football success story in my immediate family is my wife. In 2010, she joined a Sunday team called AFC Phoenix — many promotions and titles later they have just started their first season as Dulwich Hamlet’s women’s team.Jennings added: "I played my first football in Newry and have friends and family living in the city, indeed, my wife Eleanor is also from Newry." One all-day tournament coincided with the final day of the 1996-97 Premier League season on which Newcastle qualified for the Champions League, while Sunderland and Middlesbrough were relegated. You can imagine the atmosphere. Charlotte Braithwaite is a mum of two and a family and lifestyle blogger. She rediscovered her love of football. 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.