Changing Room Chat: We’re all in this together

Published on 26/07/2012 00:00

IN front of a Welsh crowd and with two Scots in their ranks, the Great Britain women’s football team got the Olympics off to a winning start for the home nation as they defeated New Zealand 1-0 in the Cardiff sunshine yesterday.

After years of insisting that the London Games would be an event for the whole UK, it was an ideal curtain-raiser before the focus well and truly turns to the host city. Hours after the victory the official British Olympic Association press release was emailed out. Heading? “England women on their way”.