“It’s funny what people think they know,” she says. “‘Beth must be great, she must be high and everything’. This season was my best season on a football pitch individually, but actually the worst season ever off the football pitch personally.
were over. She had only 10 days until she was back preparing for the new season with her club and flew to Greece with her partner, and Arsenal teammate, Vivianne Miedema. Miedema is a highly decorated Dutch forward who holds scores of records and is long accustomed to the attention, especially in Netherlands. But “Viv’s not so into it”, Mead says. “She gets overwhelmed. I didn’t mind it but she’s like, ‘Ah, God, how many more are you going to get?’ I’m like, ‘I’m sorry! I’m too nice. I’m not very good at saying no’.”
“I had a standing ovation, every single person I walked past clapped. I was really taken aback by that,” Mead recalls.