When Manchester City phoned to register their interest in Lauren Hemp she thought it was a prank call.
‘Someone rang me, to this day I’m still not 100 per cent sure who it was,’ Hemp tells Sportsmail. ‘They said: “look, City are interested in you, I’ve had discussions with (then manager) Nick Cushing and they’re really keen to have a chat with you.”
‘I didn’t think anything of it, I thought it was a prank call. I didn’t think a team like that would be interested in me. I didn’t have a clue who this person was so I told my mum.