This article is part of ESPN's coverage of Women's History Month.
Fran Kirby's postmatch routine stays largely the same. Whether she's breaking the goal-scoring record at Chelsea, scoring four times against Reading or collecting another Player of the Match accolade, it's a straightforward agenda: sofa, meal, Neflix. She especially loves true crime documentaries and, for a week last year, Kirby played detective herself when she sought out a recording of the emergency call that her friend made after she fell gravely ill in November 2019.
Kirby had collapsed. She was eating dinner with her closest friends and teammates, Beth England and Maren Mjelde, at home, and suddenly felt awful.