Grace Fisk made an immediate impact at Liverpool this season.
Signed in the summer, the 26-year-old defender started every WSL match as they finished fourth. It was their highest finish in the WSL since they last won it in 2014. There were notable wins over Arsenal and Manchester United and, at one point on the run-in, it even looked like they might have decided the title after a shock 4-3 defeat of Chelsea on May 1 gave Manchester City an advantage.
“As a defender, I don’t love those games as much,” says Fisk, thinking back to last season. “It (the win over Chelsea) was a really good game but would I have rather won 1-0? Yeah.”
Fisk has become a mainstay of the WSL over the past four years, but there was a point where she thought football might not be for her.
“I took a bit of a sabbatical when I was doing my GCSEs,” says Fisk, who was born in Bromley, on the southeastern outskirts of London. “I just didn’t find myself enjoying it. I would get really nervous. I would vomit before games, so I took six months to a year while I was doing my exams. Anyway, I got back into it.”
Fisk broke into the women’s first team at nearby Millwall aged 16 after joining the London side six years earlier. Somebody playing senior football at second-tier level was unusual at that…
