“Knowing how difficult it was for me to get into football, I want to try and make it as easy as possible for these young girls,” says Mead, who had to travel 45 minutes from the village of Hinderwell, in rural North Yorkshire, to Middlesbrough to find her closest girls’ team as a child. “That’s the rewarding part. You see these girls and you hope that one day they will be playing in Euros and World Cup finals.”
