Growing up, Simran Sandhu just wanted to play football.
She loved having a kick around the garden with her brothers, but her Punjabi dad wasn't keen on her joining a team. He didn't even like her playing FIFA on the PlayStation. Football was a boys' sport, he said.
Simran was jealous of her younger brothers, who were allowed to play on teams and who she spent her weekends watching from the sidelines.
"Even when it came to just playing in the garden I'd noticed silly things like my dad would be paying more attention to my brother, passing the ball to him more," Simran, now 23, says.
It wasn't until Simran was 14 that her dad let her join a team.
