Hello, and welcome to Meet The Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
Football is one of Britain's great engines of soft power.
The game travels everywhere, shaping culture, politics and identity far beyond the pitch.
But what happens when someone who doesn't even like football suddenly finds themselves helping to change it?
Today's story begins far from the terraces on the catwalk.
My guest was once a successful international model,
before a series of unlikely career turns led her to a small club on the south coast of England,
where a radical idea took hold.
That the women's team should be treated exactly the same as the men's.
The result was a quiet revolution that rippled far beyond the stands.
Her memoir is funny, candid and unexpectedly moving.
And on this International Women's Day...
it offers a powerful look at how sport can drive cultural change.
Karen Dobre, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you so much.
I have been so looking forward to meeting you.
Now, here's the thing, I get pitched...
hundreds of books all of the time and obviously we can't take them all.
This is a book that would have instantly gone on my know pile