After 12 months of being sidelined with an anterior cruciate ligament injury, what was it like for Gabby George when she returned to training last month? ‘I felt a bit drunk!’ the Everton defender laughed. ‘Everything was like a blur, my speech and vision. It had been nearly a year since I’d been training.’
Toffees boss Willie Kirk recently said his players had ‘felt the full force of Gabby George once again’. The centre-back admitted she had perhaps been a little too eager to get back into things.
‘I was in the session as a non-contact player and gave away the ball and my first instinct was to go and get it back so I went through the back of Elise Hughes and she was like “oh my god!