Jill Scott
“Sometimes they can go to a café and people have faces on telephones, they don’t even know that someone is sitting on the table next to them.”
But while Jill Scott complains about an unfortunate side effect of the technology that modern society takes over, it has first seen the positive effects that can have something as simple as a football sticker.
The former Lioness worshiped that collecting a sense of community promotes people. In recent times, Scott has only been too happy that Manchester Coffee Shop, Boxx2Boxx, was twice to be seen as an inviting area in which football fans can come together to talk and exchange with their stickers.
This summer is certainly no different.
“I love it when people come to the café and we have sticker albums and exchange,” she says 90 minutesas Tops Start the brand new UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 collection.
“You can see these amazing conversations and also come together a kind of different types of people. You see that children speak to people who would normally not do because they have this thing together. And it is a bit of a life of life:” You have something that I need and I can help you “interact” because you know that you can help each other, “adds Scott.
“It is a great atmosphere like ‘I have this, I have it!’ Even the Shinies, “Look, I have a shiny one, does anyone want to swap it?”
“Consider the sticker album, that Tops have created, it is so good quality. I think the most important thing about sticking stickers, and when I was younger, I could only collect the stickers of the men, is through these that you can learn about players, their names and statistics. It is great, especially in the world in which we now live with a lot of technology, telephones and tablets – which is okay to see children with something physical and actually put stickers into a book. “
Scott belongs to several generations of adult female players and fans, for whom the men’s football stickers were the only option. For younger fans, women have become normal on stickers and have a growing demand in cultural space that exists alongside the women’s play.
“I hear so many new generation stories that get involved in football, but the generation that it probably likes the most are the women who did not have this opportunity [to collect women’s football stickers] When they were younger, and now they are doing it, “she explains.
Ultimately, the collecting of stickers includes the generations, from small children who ask their parents for pocket money, right down to nostalgic adults with available income to buy their own packages. Scott himself, 38 and retired for three years, has already tested the EURO 2025 collection and freely admits that credinging has a therapeutic quality.
“I sometimes worked together in one night, and since the work is busy, it is very nice to relax and it actually helps me,” she offers. “When I do something like this, if I feel a bit anxious, the ghost turns out. It also brings so many childhood memories for me, asks my mom about some money, runs into the store, get a package with stickers and searched for your favorite player.”
When it comes to real things on the square in Switzerland this summer, Scott, a European champion with England, has the last time triggered in the final round of an ERA-definent career, every self-confidence that their former colleagues can keep the pioneering title that they won on the ground in 2022.
“I think you can do it? 100%,” she says.
England has also been in the World Cup final since the last euros. But with a handful of disappointing results in the successive campaigns of the UEFA nations -League and in a distant perfect euro qualification run, it will have no doubt that it will be difficult -not least because there is no time to sit down.
“The way I see it when you are in a tournament – I was lucky enough to play four women -euro, you try to get dynamics in the group stage,” explains Scott.
“But I think because the group is difficult -the Netherlands, France, Wales -England has to go to the edge. And the thing is because they won the last one, there is always a little more of a goal on their backs that people see how they play against England, the Champions as their cup final.”
Despite some criticism in the past few months, Scott believes that a “fantastic” squad – many of which were there in 2022 – will rise to this occasion if it really matters.
“There is always a bit of a waste point. It is so difficult in sports to continue and go and to constantly hit these stages,” she says. “But the victory in Wembley against Spain [in February]That was definitely a sign that the lionesses are back.
“This is the standard we expected every time you step onto the field. I think the goal on the back will probably be the biggest [challenge]But the girls are so good and mentally very strong. I know that you will take every game as it comes and Sarina [Wiegman] is so good at blocking the outer sound, the emotions. That’s why she is one of the best women’s managers in the world.
“The big players appear in the big moments and many of them have. Leah Williamson, Lucy Bronze, Millie Bright, these are the players who thrive on these occasions. They are probably a ‘tournament team’, and I think they will see that again.”
With Ella Toone and Alessia Russo, who made a name for themselves as new and up -and -coming players in 2022 and regularly change the games from the bank, Scott Manchester calls United’s Grace Clinton, who is currently nine hats, as their choice of being the next tournament star of England this summer.
“Grace Clinton is someone who inspires me,” she says.
“Everyone always looks at flair and goals, but what I see from Grace is the one who traces all the way back, brings Tackles and scores quite a few goals with their head. For me, she is this all-round middle field player.