This moment of great magnitude will never be forgotten with England’s players providing a glorious explosion of elation at Wembley
hloe Kelly could have run all the way to Hanwell if they would have let her. The place she was brought up alongside her seven siblings, crashing into each other in west London’s concrete cages, is only five miles from here but it would not have mattered if it was 500 the way she felt; the way all of them did. God, the noise. The explosion, the release, the everything. Shegoal. The one they had been waiting for and for so long.
England had taken the lead with a gloriously taken goal from Ella Toone an hour into an exhausting, sometimes confrontational match that had always been on a knife edge. The beauty was in the simplicity, a lovely first time ball from Keira Walsh sending her through, time seeming to slow. Time to think, to wonder, perhaps at some subconscious level to be aware of all this signified. Time for that to weigh, too.
She jumped and ran and screamed and headed to the touchline. Six hours earlier her friends and family had stood on Wembley way with an England flag, QPR embossed on it – the club where she started – now she stood before them and crossed her arms. When at last she slowed to a halt and they were ready to start again, the referee, Kateryna Monzul, pulled out a yellow card. She should ask to keep it.
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