Alex Greenwood is in the grip of an addiction she never wants to kick. “I’m obsessed with football,” says the Manchester City and England defender. “Often, at home, all Jack and I talk about is football, we watch it and analyse it all the time. People ask what I do to get away from the game but I don’t want to escape it.”
“Jack” is Jack O’Connell, the Sheffield United defender, famed for his ability as an overlapping centre-half, although a serious knee injury dictates that he has spent the past 18 months watching Greenwood perfect her transition from left-back to left-sided centre-half.
