“I’m in a rush,” Amy Andrews says and she isn’t being rude.
She sits and she listens and she thinks and she laughs, but the quicker we can get this interview done, the closer she will be to what’s next. Words rat-a-tat out of her. “I want to win the Golden Boot, I want to win player of the season, I want us to win the Championship,” she says and, if this is not quite emphatic enough, she follows it with: “I want to win everything.”
If anybody can embody the ethos of a whole club then Andrews might just be the poster girl for Newcastle United women who, in the terminology of Becky Langley, the manager, are “unapologetically ambitious” in their outlook this season. After consecutive promotions, after turning full-time professional, their aspirations are unbound. “I’ve had a hard journey to get to where I am,” Andrews says. “I don’t just want to settle and then retire.”
Andrews is 24 and a striker. She joined Newcastle this summer after a year at Durham, also of the Women’s Championship, where she ended last season as the club’s top scorer. Before then, there were five years in the United States and 51 goals in 84 matches for Western Illinois University, her college team, and Tormenta FC in the USL W League. Hers has been a mazy pathway;…
