Duggan on pregnancy: I had to be sick in my jumper and put it to the side

In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports’ WSL presenter Caroline Barker, Everton’s Toni Duggan discusses the difficulty of hiding her pregnancy from her teammates in the early weeks, joking and training with Andros Townsend and how she’s not called time on her England career just yet.

Despite the pregnancy sickness, Toni Duggan says she still enjoys a bowl of Scouse: “I’ve still been having my Scouse, getting my goodness in, especially in this weather. My mum’s been forcing it down me neck.”

Although she’s travelled from Manchester City to Barcelona and Atletico Madrid, Duggan’s never strayed far from her Scouse accent, as rich as the stew synonymous with Liverpool.

We sit down for a chat a month after the Everton forward announced she was pregnant and would miss the rest of the WSL season. It’s not just Scouse that’s on the menu on a Zoom call from the club’s Finch Farm base.

“In the first few weeks, I wasn’t too sick, I was just actually being sick,” Duggan says. “I felt okay in myself so I’d be on the bike upstairs before the girls went out to training”.