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Daily Mirror
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Beth Lindop

England Deaf Women achieve dream after Gerrard and Neville help - "It means everything"

Any player who gets the opportunity to represent their country at a major tournament will tell you it's a feeling like no other.

Pulling on an England shirt and stepping out at a World Cup is, for many, the pinnacle of a career that is peppered with sacrifice, strife and setbacks - something that 34-year-old Claire Stancliffe knows all too well.

Stancliffe is part of England Deaf Women's football team, whose road to this year's Deaf World Football Championships in Malaysia hasn't been an easy one.

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