Most footballers starting their senior career are already on a healthy salary and beginning to live the high life the sport can offer. But that wasn’t the case for many Lionesses, who spent t…
centre forward Bethany England in particular spent four years playing for Barnsley's youth team before moving to an all-girls team after being scouted by Sheffield United's women's academy.But as England was working her way up with the Yorkshire outfit, she was also balancing doing A Levels and doing shifts in a Barnsley chippy.
With shift patterns ranging from 9pm to 5am, England had the task of cleaning up the city centre's night life's food on a regular basis.Toone and Russo are the childhood pals gunning for glory and leaving fans in stitches What's even more jaw-dropping is she would often have to work on match days, sometimes having just three hours sleep before heading off to bang in goals for the Belles.
But her hard graft serving up cod and chips paid off big time, with her earning a move to Women's Super League giants“Everyone’s journey is different,” England said in 2020. “I can’t say mine has been easy. It’s just been a long old roll, just putting myself out there, trying to prove myself.Most read in Football
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