Ellie Rugman

There aren’t many fairytales in sport, but it felt like we’d just witnessed one of them: a side whose captain had poured her World Cup heartbreak into a history-making campaign - record-breaking, table-topping, and then playoffs conquering at the very first time of asking. There’s already plenty of chat about next season - sport is relentless and unrelenting, as we know - but some moments are worth dwelling on, and this was certainly one of those.

by Claire Thomas