THE HINDERWELL HOTSHOT

Beth Mead, 27, Arsenal

TAKEN by her parents for a kickabout with the boys aged five ‘to burn off some energy’. Coach worried she’d get knocked around — but she did the knocking around herself. Brought up in Hinderwell, a tiny village in the middle of Yorkshire Moors where locals supported her career with coffee mornings and raffles. an effigy of her, in england kit, appeared in the village’s annual scarecrow competition in 2019. Significant other is chocolate spaniel Rona.