the new baller in town

~ 12 ~

We have to go to the airport so we can fly to Spain and we have to play them, so I called ona and said we should go out for dinner, I haven't seen or really spoke to her since I was in Manchester for thoes few days, I'll be wearing one of thoes suits I bought, whilst I was up there.

God I hate flying, its actually one of my biggest fears, so I have managed to keep any panic attacks at bay, but I haven't as if now, I'm currently trying to talk myself onto the plane.
"El, you ok," leah says putting her hand on my shoulder.
"Umm, do I have to go to this one, I hate planes and I'm gonna have to do this all over again in three days time," I mutter.
"Come on, sit with me," she says as we step onto the plane, we make our way to the seat and she sits me in between her and Beth, so they can keep an eye on me whilst I'm on the plane, its a 2 hour flight so its fairly short, doesn't mean it is any less scary.
There was some turbulence which was terrifying, and I think I bruised Beth's hand, oops, viv won't be very happy, can't damage thoes.

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Game day,

England 🇬🇧 vs Spain 🇪🇸

Line up

Earps,GK, (VC)
Greenwood,LB
Williamson,CB,(C)
Bright,CB
Bronze,RB
Walsh,LM
Toone,CM
Stanway,RM
Hemp,F
Mead,F
Russo,F

Subs,

E Williamson
Kelly
Nobbs
England
Daly
James
Le tissier
Hampton
Robinson
Roebuck
Morgan
Zelem
Park
Wubben-Moy

We have a good starting line up, with a good captain, well I might be a bit biased as she is my sister, we make our way to the subs bench and we wait for the moment the team walks out with leah leading them, it's gonna be a good game and I'm looking forward for the aftermath, where I finally get to see my best friend again after nearly a month.

Kick off

7, Spain free kick, goal

15, russo scores

17, williamson goes down

Suddenly everything slowed down, she better be ok.
" leah," I shout from the side lines, I've always hated when she went down, she slowly gets back up, looks like she has blood on her arm. I have a feeling she will come off soon, she is gonna need stitches, it's fairly deep, putellas better get a red for that.

21, red card for putellas

22, Mead scores

37, substitution, E Williamson on, L Williamson off.

Leah hugs me as she comes off, " you got this," she wispers as I run onto the pitch my official debut.

39, E Williamson scores from half way line

45, penalty to Spain, miss

45+3 Spain score

Half time score

Spain: 2
England: 3

"Right ladies, we are doing well, extremely well I want you to keep this up in the second half, Lucy your gonna come off, lotte your going on in her place, you are going to keep applying pressure they are flaking without putellas, so come let's get a win, let's go," sarina says pushing us all back out towards the pitch.

Second half

47, Spain miss a penalty again

65, England score, Hemp

79, Spain score, Battle

89, England score, E Williamson

89, E Williamson goes down,

The pain was excruciating my right knee, its like something snapped, I swear it better not be what I think it is, I hope it isn't, but you know exactlywhat it is the moment you go down, every football knows the moment, the one most fear, I know I certainly do , leahs not even on the pitch anymore as she had to go get stitches in her arm.
" Hey," Beth says knee sliding next to me and putting her hand on my back," what's happened," she asks as I rest my head on her lap.
" my knee, I can't..." I say through tears
" Hey its gonna be ok, your gonna be fine ok, listen to me, I've got you," she says holding my hand and wiping my tears away and trying to calm me as I cry out when they move my leg.
I see ona give me a concerned look,then realise what's actually happened, and she comes running over, the medical team are trying to get me up.
"What's going on," she asks with a very concerned tone.
"Right, we are gonna have to ask you to back away, as we need to get the stretcher in," they say.
" no, no, I'll get up," I say grabbing onas hand so I can get up her and Beth help me off the pitch, earning a clap form the crowd, Lucy had been subbed off and came running over to help as they had to get back to the game, and I saw leah come running down the tunnel, then with a shocked face at seeing me coming off, she runs over to me wrapping her arm around me and helping Lucy, and they take me to the medical team.

The match came to an end and they had already got a main idea what it is, they had to add an extra 15 minutes onto the 90 minutes, they think it's my ACL. They think it's my ACL, I know its my ACL I see the door open and ona and Beth are fighting for the space, ona makes it through first, oh dear, she literally jumps onto the bed with me
"Jesus kid, what's going on, made you debut and bloody injured," she says hugging me.
" I think we might have to cancel dinner, I'm sorry," I mumble into her neck. All the others leave us as we talk she explains that as soon as the international break is over she is booking time off to make sure I'm ok, I did fall asleep as everyone came in, which was sad but they did have to carry me to the coach after putting a support on my knee making so I can walk.