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'Football comes second for a change' says Norwich footballer after baby

Jack Mclean

BBC News, Norfolk

A footballer said the sport had come "second for a change" after she became a mum last year.

Jodie Drake, 32, has just returned to Norwich City Women after taking a year out to have her first child.

The midfielder - who has been at the club since 2008 - said juggling football and motherhood had been "hard".

Drake managed to score in her first match back and dedicated the goal to her son.

"I thought of him straight away," she told BBC Radio Norfolk.