England ladies

Governing body wants to award caps to all players after an i campaign but task could be made impossible after it threw away historical documents in 1993, ...

The researchers helping the FA are, however, confident that a complete legacy list can be compiled. “I don’t think there’s any way the FA can create a complete legacy list,” Osborne told i. “I got in a lorry, a milk cart, anything that was going down to London,” Allott, 66, said. Fifa’s records claim that Sylvia Gore, Lynda Hale and Allott were the scorers. Allott, who made her debut aged 16, recalled how she had to hitchhike from Crewe to London for games and training as they were forced to pay travel costs and once had to spend a night at Waterloo Station. The FA has, however, never given official caps to female players.