Jordan Nobbs on grief and the importance of dreaming big

Jordan Nobbs, then Arsenal captain, spent some nine months on the sidelines after rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament during the Gunners’ 4-0 win over Everton in 2018. It was a knee injury that would also see the England vice-captain ruled out of the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France. But this was anything but the first major hurdle the north-east-born midfielder has faced. In a moving interview, Nobbs opens up to Twentytwo’s Claire Bloomfield about the personal tragedy that almost derailed her football career before it had even started.