History-making England captain is often seen barking orders but has a more introverted persona off the pitch
L
eah Williamson stops, unable to scrape the grin off her face, pizza in hand, hair still damp from the post-match shower and a fat lip. “Not annnother one?!” I say to her, mimicking her parody of the viral general election clip after England lifted the Finalissima. “Annnother one?!” she replies, still grinning.
I am not the only one who remembers the clip. “NOT ANOTHER ONEEEEEE,” Lauren Hemp commented on Williamson’s Instagram post.
The 28-year-old has reason to be cheerful, she is creating history over and over and over again – the girl whose mum used to park the car at the edge of a pitch with the headlights on at 6am so she could train in the dark before school is now the first England captain to lift two major trophies and help deliver England’s first tournament win on foreign soil, coming two months after she tasted European glory with her childhood club Arsenal.
