The golden boot winner who came out of nowhere

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened in April 1986, I was nine years old. I’d just had a trial with Dynamo Kyiv, and it had gone well, but everything changed. In the first few days following t

E uro 2022 was a defining moment for you and the Lionesses. How do you look back on it? The impact we’ve had on women’s football since then has been incredible, and I’m so proud to have been even a sm

CRUZEIRO 0 FLAMENGO 1 Copa do Brasil, 1995 “This game made me leave behind youth football and spread my wings. I was 18. We played against Romario’s Flamengo and, despite losing, everyone recognised m

Would you say your long-range strike against Spain, which sent England to the Euro 2022 semi-finals, has been your career highlight to date? That tournament was a bit of a rocket for me. I was able to

You’re the only England player ever to have scored in the quarter-finals, semifinals and final of a major tournament, having found the net in the quarters and final of Euro 2022, then the semis at the

So, you made your professional debut for George Graham’s Arsenal in 1990... I went down there as a 16-year-old, having just scored for Scotland in the 1989 Youth World Cup Final in front of 50,000 peo