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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sophie Downey

As a girl I dreamed about covering women’s football. Now it is a reality

Lauren Hemp on an advertising board in London before the start of the European Championship.
Lauren Hemp on an advertising board in London before the start of the European Championship. Photograph: John Phillips/Getty Images for Nike

Welcome to Moving the Goalposts, the Guardian’s new (and free) women’s football newsletter. Here’s an extract from this week’s edition. To receive the full version once a week, just pop your email in below:

It has been a long journey but here we are, in 2022, with a Women’s European Championship about to start in England at a sold-out Old Trafford – and it is my job to write about it. When I grew up, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, that seemed an impossible dream.

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