Rachel Yankey enjoyed a glittering career at Arsenal, winning eight league titles, nine FA Cups, seven League Cups and, of course, a Champions League title.
Yankey broke into the first team in 1996 as a precocious teenage winger with an elite left foot. However, her path into the Arsenal first team was far from gilded.
“When I went to sign, I met a guy called Tony Milton where the ball courts were at Highbury and I was told I would probably play for the fourth team,” Yankey remembers. “I definitely wasn’t the golden girl coming through! But then I played for the reserves a couple of times and then got on the bench for the first team.