Alex Scott

It's no secret that I love dancing and music.

I love travelling to the games and doing them pitchside with Gabby Logan.

When things don't happen in my life, I believe that I've been pushed into another path for a reason, and there's a bigger picture.

My mum never once tried to push me into something different, even though there was no way of making a living out of women's football. She supported me because she saw I was happy and that it gave me a focus to not be hanging around on the street.

My hardest lesson has been my most fruitful, too: that when people don't believe in me, I can prove them wrong.

Every player has their own story, but I always thought of playing on my estate with dreams of what I might be able to achieve.

I knew that, to be the best right-back in the world, I had to improve my fitness so I could run up and down constantly for 90 minutes.

No matter what happens to our game, money won't be a motivation for me.

As a pundit, I have to tell the truth. I think players will respect that. Well, I hope they do.

When I was younger, my food and fitness were less controlled - I just loved football.

I want people - boys and girls - to be sat at home watching me alongside the likes of Rio Ferdinand or Frank Lampard, thinking that it's normal, that we all know what we're talking about, and that they're not judging me at home just because I'm a female.

The enjoyment of playing football gave me a positive pathway, but I could have taken a very different path.