Carol Ann Duffy writes poem paying tribute to England’s female footballers

The former poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. Photograph: David Parry/PA Media

The UK’s first and so far only female poet laureate has written a sonnet to honour England’s Lionesses and a game she says she has “loved from childhood”.

Carol Ann Duffy, who said she grew up in a “footballing family”, pays homage to the trailblazers behind today’s squad in We See You, a poem described as a “team talk” to the nation.