Women’s World Cup 2023: England will be ready for anything – Ellen White column

BBC sport says This World Cup is England’s first major tournament since the 2009 European Championship where I will be watching rather than playing, but I’m looking forward to it just as much.

I think I did the part where I trained hard and played in all the games for long enough – now I am just really excited to be on the other side, watching and supporting, and being a fan.

I am very lucky to have gone to three World Cups in my career and, after winning last year’s Euros, I felt it was the right time for me to retire.

Almost 12 months on, I feel very content with how I ended my playing days, and with it being my decision to stop.

The past year has been a real whirlwind with the birth of my first daughter in April, and I feel very lucky with the way everything has gone – I don’t want to jinx it but she’s a really good sleeper so I haven’t had the disturbed nights that lots of people warned me about.

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