although it is about football and soccer, it is really more about the sort of social changes at the time and not only that, there was this real idea of girl power at the time with the spice girls and female empowerment was coming up and i also wanted to be part of that. # my independence day... you have been able to move forward in your career by being very determined and very feisty. where does that come from? when i was about 16, at school i had wanted to go to university and actually wanted to study what we called development economics and geography at the time because geography was my favourite subject. and i went to the careers office and said, this is what i want to do, i want to go to university. and she looked at me and said, no, don't you think you should apply to secretarial college? and i was, like, why