Bolton wanderers future as an English Football League team remains in doubt, as the latest rescue deal collapsed. The League One Club has been set a deadline of 5 oclock tuesday evening to convince the efl they can stay in business. Administrators say unless a takeover deal can be agreed, theyll put the 145 Year Old Club into liquidation and start closing it on wednesday. Heres our Sports Correspondent andy swiss. Newsreel Nat Lofthouse charges in and theres boltons second goal it is one of englands oldest and most historic clubs. Bolton wanderers have scored the fourth cup victory of their history. Fa cup winners, premier League Regulars until recently, but how times change. This year has seen bolton fans protesting against their owners, with the club mired in financial problems, and now its on the brink. A takeover has collapsed and, barring developments, administrators say they will start closing it down this week. Fans are fearing the worst. It would just be so, so sad that a club of this long standing history one of the founding clubs in the league would just cease to exist. Having been a fan my whole life, ijust cant imagine that happening, and nor can anybody else. But if these people dont do the right thing, thats where this is headed. Here at bolton its already been a pretty challenging season. Theyve had to field mainly youth team players, their manager has just resigned, and theyve lost their last two matches 5 0. But it seems the crisis here could get even worse. One of the clubs greatest goal scorers, like the fans, can only wait and hope. Its got to the stage now where frustration has taken over, it really is. And you feel so sorry for the supporters that back this club to the hilt. They just want to see something happen. And boltons not the only Club Fighting for its survival. Tomorrow is also burys deadline to complete their sale, or potentially face expulsion from the football league. For two clubs with between them, centuries of history, a pivotal 2a hours. Andy swiss, bbc news, bolton. Now on bbc news, extra time. Welcomed to extra time. Our guest todayis welcomed to extra time. Our guest today is an International Foot although with over 100 caps in a clu b although with over 100 caps in a club career which is taken over by the United States and three english clu bs to the United States and three english clubs to juventus the United States and three english clubs tojuventus in italy where she helped to a league and cup double. Shes made news of pitch, most notably shes made news of pitch, most nota bly two shes made news of pitch, most notably two years ago in what she has described an explicitly racist remark by coach mark samson started a series of disputes about whether the English Football Association itself is a racist organisation. Eniola aluko meanwhile will have a roa n eniola aluko meanwhile will have a roan views about how the womens game can develop after this yous world cup. And thats way we will start. Eniola alu ko, world cup. And thats way we will start. Eniola aluko, welcome to this edition of extra time. By general consent, its fair to say the womens world cup was an enormous success , womens world cup was an enormous success, massive womens world cup was an enormous success, massive tv audiences, worldwide, improved playing standards, and in the United States of america. Expected or surprised . I wasnt surprised at all with United States winning. Had the experience of playing in the states for a number of different clubs and friends with a lot of those girls on the team. Theyjust have a relentless winning mentality that is just far above and beyond anyone else in the world right now. But the tournament as a whole was a success. Asa tournament as a whole was a success. As a whole, absolutely. I was lucky enough to be covering it with an american broadcaster and every day behind the scenes, there was new records being broken in terms of audience figures. There are to be 25 Million People watching france and brazil quarterfinal or ten, 11 Million People watching bbc in england against usa, it was just groundbreaking and i think every time womens foot fall on an International Global stage is put in front of the world, they lapped it up front of the world, they lapped it up and they loved it. There is a huge appetite for the game now. And yet history tells us interest will tail off once the players return to their domestic league. Is there any reason for optimism that the womens game my take off . Reason for optimism that the womens game my takeoff . That is the challenge, you are right to identify that because we dont womens football to be an event every four yea rs, football to be an event every four years , we football to be an event every four years, we wanted to be a regular thing that people go and watch every week so i think the challenge for clu bs week so i think the challenge for clubs particularly in england is to really harness the fan bases that are already existing server arsenal and chelsea and Manchester City and liverpool, put the games on before the mens games. And what about where you play now . In italy, similar. Last year, we played fiorentina at the Allianz Stadium with juventus and fiorentina at the Allianz Stadium withjuventus and its sold out but when can thus become more consistent . Three, four, five times a year so we are consistent . Three, four, five times a year so we are building fan bases to really start having womens football as a habit because football asa football as a habit because football as a habit is a religion in this country and in many other countries and thats what womens football can be if fans turn up or regularly every week. Fans might vote with their remote controls when it comes to free to add television and its a question of supporting a National Side but they wont vote with their feet to what your club side in the middle of winter. I think they will. I think when you are passionate about the team and players and have about the team and players and have a sense of community with a club, you will go out in the snow, wind, rain, lightning. Thats what football fa ns rain, lightning. Thats what football fans do. But attendance is in womens football in england arent good. 900 or so. They havent been. And attendances at the world cup wont especially good. France for whatever reason, people only wa nted for whatever reason, people only wanted to watch france. That was sold out. Im not sure why that is but in terms of womens football, the problem has been the marketing, the problem has been the marketing, the problem has been the marketing, the problem has been the broadcasting. Its not in peoples conscious to go out and watch. Now it is. How do you change that . I think it is about saying, first of all the marketing, make it so visible that people cant get away from it because frankly, thats what it feels like with mens football sometimes, even when youre trying to get away from it, its everywhere but also harnessing, as i said, harnessing these fan bases so put on doubleheaders. Chelsea womens team, my old club, they are playing spurs on the opening day of the season at sta nford on the opening day of the season at stanford bridge. We need to start putting major stadiums that people already associate big fan bases with and its on occasion so people will pay and go and watch. You might regard this as a detail but which match would come first . The womens 01 match would come first . The womens or mens . Im concerned on your behalf that maybe if it is the womens, the fans will turn up late and if its second, they will leave early. I think practically speaking, i believe it should be first because thats when the fan base, the bulk of the fan base is going to start coming. Is the Football Association the right body to look after womens football in this country . As you know there is quite a big debate over whether the premier league should take over. I think the Football Association have done a great job, Football Association have done a greatjob, i think, Football Association have done a greatjob, ithink, with Football Association have done a greatjob, i think, with the league. They are now the best league in europe in terms of the w in terms of the level of competition and marketing, there is big sponsorship with berkeley s, which is unprecedented around europe so i have to applaud the fa for what theyve done with the league. I think they are missing a huge opportunity to partner with the premier league because it is a huge Global Football pray branded a lot of the top clubs are premier league clubs so it makes sense to harness the premier league brandon really that womens football off. they were to take over, the premier league have put an awful lot of store behind showing, around the world, a form of entertainment which is well attended. They have managed largely largely speaking to fill stadiums but they dont want to be associated with a spectacle which lacks that. Absolutely, absolutely. The womens game has to build to the point there is a confidence level in attendance. But, its a chicken and 999 attendance. But, its a chicken and egg situation. If the premier league ta kes egg situation. If the premier league takes it on, then potentially people are going to come out in their d roves are going to come out in their droves to watch. You just dont know what comes first. I think either way, there is a risk element to it but thats entertainment. Lets talk about you and there is a lot about you in this book here, they dont teach this, which is out now. You grew up teach this, which is out now. You grew up on a teach this, which is out now. You grew up on a Council Estate outside birmingham. What drove your interest in football . I was born with this ability, no one taught me. No coaching . No coaching whatsoever. I learned on the estate, i was the only girl out of about ten boys and ijust had to figure it out. You said you were better than all of them. I was. Said you were better than all of them. Iwas. I probably was, actually. And i think thats what made me kind of a bit shocked about my disability that i was just born with and just dribbling around coke ca ns with and just dribbling around coke cans on the local estate, i think that street grid is in you and i think its the story of a lot of layers, wayne rooney and all these quys layers, wayne rooney and all these guys that went on to do great things, they started out on the street. That is very much my story andi street. That is very much my story and i can relate to now. But you wont accepted by some of the pa rents of wont accepted by some of the parents of the boys were playing with. Not about being a girl or the colour of your skin. What was it about . I do think it had a lot to do with me being a girl, actually. I grew up in the 90s and womens football, girls playing football still wasnt something that was in the societys consciousness and so i think the parents, they found it objectionable, particularly when i am dribbling around their son and making their son look bad, then its like, no, shouldnt be allowed. So i very much felt like i was kind of doing something wrong. I felt like very much felt like i was kind of doing something wrong. Ifelt like i was weird, being this girl that could play football and no one else, no other girls, could play football and no one else, no othergirls, i could play football and no one else, no other girls, i couldnt see other girls doing it. |j no other girls, i couldnt see other girls doing it. I was playing ina other girls doing it. I was playing in a boys team. A bit confused . I was confused and there was a time i spoke about in the book where i didnt want to play football anymore because as a young kid you have this desire to be accepted in life and sober parents, if parents are screaming on the sidelines that they dont want you to play football, that really challenged my sense of a cce pta nce that really challenged my sense of acceptance and so i thought, well, ill do something else, ill play tennis because at the time, the williams sisters, serena and venus, we re williams sisters, serena and venus, were huge and prominent. I said to my mum,i were huge and prominent. I said to my mum, i want to beat my hair like Venus Williams because that was what was accepted so it was a challenge, it was a challenge but i think it came back full circle and i ended up playing all again and now i am here. Your first club in 2001 was Birmingham City and he first played for england in 2004 but you will also embarking on a law degree at university and that eventually resulted in a first class degree. You your bets between put all and the law. I think thats the perfect way to put it. You havent decided which way you are going to go . Growing up, which way you are going to go . Growin u womens which way you are going to go . Growing up, womens football wasnt a career growing up, womens football wasnt a career path. It is now thankfully because there are not professional teams and leagues but when i was growing up, it wasnt. My parents very much said you have to go to school, do well in school, go to university and have a fallback position and i wanted to do that and do well in everything i did and so i did my a levels, i went to university and i was inspired to become a lawyer by reading the book to kill to kill a mockingbird. Atticus finch, the lawyer was my big inspiration, even though he wasnt real. I had to try and kind of balance this sort of plan and plan b of football and law and it wasnt until 2012 really, when the olympics happened, that i was able to then say, ok, this is actually a career path i can wallow and i can come back to law later. And this experience in law helped you through the episode which i described my introduction. I will set this up for you. Youd been defined in the uk by your dispute in 2017 with the former england coach mark samson which he regarded as a racist remark about yourfamily. He regarded as a racist remark about your family. He said regarded as a racist remark about yourfamily. He said you had your family wasnt going to bring the disease ebola over from family wasnt going to bring the disease ebola overfrom nigeria. What began was the end of his career asa what began was the end of his career as a coach although not specifically over the remark or the dispute that followed and the result was the end of your international career. Now, two years later, what are your reflections . First of all the comments were admitted by mark samson said there is no dispute about that. I dont think theres any dispute that there we re think theres any dispute that there were racist, the barrister who was conducting the investigation said it as such stop so i think thats very clear. But she did say that he was not a racist. I mean, thats an opinion was a moot point. The comments were racist so whether someone comments were racist so whether someone is racist for saying racist comments, i dont know. I think that the separate discussion but its very important to say the comments we re very important to say the comments were deemed as racist and i thought they were too. And they are admitted. I think the most important lesson to take from that was that i had a choice to make. I had a choice to say, im probably going to lose my career as to say, im probably going to lose my career as a to say, im probably going to lose my career as a result of this. I havent played since. But as a result, in standing and saying this is not acceptable, this is not something that an International Player should have to go through, i would like to think that the procedures for complaints have changed, and the association, the whistleblowing complaints have changed although i didnt set out to bea changed although i didnt set out to be a was a well. And you are seeing a trend in the last three years all around the world of female players, whether its new zealand, australia, usa, denmark, norway, ireland, saying this is not acceptable. Were not going to accept substandard conditions because we are women. We are not going to use it accept substandard conditions of our representing a devil dump im very much part of that wider conversation. But you spot the conversation, effectively well, the case did anyway. I dont set out to it was to be a confidential exercise will stop i was approached to give my feedback on the culture of the team, idid my feedback on the culture of the team, i did so very honestly. It was then linked publicly. And then i had to deal with that challenge. It became a very propagated obligate the story. Its important to say that the positive to bring out of that the positive to bring out of that and again what i address in the book is, you know, women being able to now say, in whatever circumstance, racism, sexism, equal pay, whatever it may be, been able to say actually, if it costs me something, im going to stand for what is going to benefit many other people. And it cost your career though, do you think its worth it . I think its fair to say that. People can argue either way and say you could have not been picked for england and thats very true. You could have not been picked for england and thats very truem isnt a bad career, maybe it was coming to an end. Im glad you said thatll stop maybe it was coming to an end, you are 32 now. |j thatll stop maybe it was coming to an end, you are 32 now. I was 30 at the time in my last emperor in that ipaid 90 the time in my last emperor in that i paid 90 minutes so i dont think it was coming to an end at the time but, you know, everything in life happens for a reason. The door was magical as was top and you are still playing top level football in italy. Yes, andi playing top level football in italy. Yes, and i do know whether i would have been. Had it way it had, i dont but i would be here now. Two questions in one now, you have used to describe the institution as racist, are you still willing to do this . Do you believe that the fa has absorbed the lessons of your case and is properly addressing the issue . Yes, i refused to address t