The largest question looming over this year’s FFOTY awards is whether any other player can really hold a light up to Beth Mead.
That’s not to snub the other candidates. This shortlist drips with a ridiculous amount of quality. Mead, Sam Kerr, Rachel Daly, Bunny Shaw, Leah Williamson, Lauren Hemp, the former of which without her corner against Germany in front of a sold-out Wembley in the summer, the Chloe Kelly shirt swing perhaps never happens.
Indeed, it’s a shortlist that would reduce any seven-a-side squad to glacial traffic cones – and there’s only six of them.
