Hello, it's Lauren O'Vern and this is Desert Island Disks Postcards,
a selection of some of our most memorable moments from some of the thousands of people we've cast away to our imaginary desert island.
This postcard comes from the footballer Jill Scott.
We met in 2023 after she'd been part of the Lionesses winning team at the Euros the previous year.
It's great that young girls today could dream of becoming a successful footballer,
but when Jill was starting out in her career,
the women players had to settle for second hand kit and miserly wages.
We used to get the men's handy down,
so in pre-season this big black bag would arrive and it would have all the men's kit off the year before,
so you kind of of be scrumming through this bag,
just trying to find someone who had your same initials.
There was this physio,
I think it must have been about 60 at the time and he was called Jockey Scott,
so it was a J and an S, so I would find it.
But I remember there were these red,
red-farty jumpers that had gone pink
because they'd been through the wash that many times and we had these shorts and obviously I was quite a tall skinny thing and these shorts were like basketball shorts on us but we were so happy to just take that kit.
home and feel like you were part of something.
So you've been in Sunderland for a year and it was then that you joined the Everton Ladies team.
Now that is a three hour drive each way from Sunderland to get over to Liverpool.