When Georgia Stanway was 15 and in need of some shooting practice, she drafted her mother into goalkeeping action. With no alternative available, Joanne Stanway pulled on a pair of gloves and positioned herself between the goalposts specially set up in the family’s back garden in Cumbria.
As a former athlete who had run for Great Britain at the youth Olympics, Joanne believed herself equal to the challenge but was soon shocked by the sheer velocity of her daughter’s shots from distance.
