Ellie Scotney began life in boxing and with Crystal Palace in unconventional ways.
Catford born and raised and a proud south Londoner (“I stick to my roots,” she quips. “I go up to the Catford Cat and then walk back again,”) Scotney faced a choice as a child:
“It was either Crystal Palace, Millwall or Charlton,” she says. “I kind of got bullied into it but now I’m a fanatic. My brothers were Season Ticket holders and I was a little tagalong. I used to go to the games that were cheap.”
In her earliest days watching Palace – in particular, “genius” Andrew Johnson – Scotney was also taking the first steps on the path to becoming a professional boxer.