As Beth Mead draws ever closer to returning to the pitch, she sat down to reflect on her recovery journey and look ahead to the upcoming season.
Flying high after England's incredible Euro 2022 campaign and earning a string of individual accolades, our number 9's blistering form was brutally interrupted when she ruptured her anterior cruciate ligament in November 2022
"It's been nice to be back with the team playing again," said Beth, ten months on from that injury. "It has been a long old road since November when I first did my knee, so to feel a bit normal as a footballer on a pitch again has been really nice for me.