 The atmosphere in our team is really friendly, you know, I think Scouse is in general very friendly people. Yeah, like the Irish, you know. No, but like, yeah, having each other and then having a team of very friendly people, you know, at the time we lived with Fern Whelan, who has lived here all her life. So she obviously knew the ropes and it's very, very good to us. Showed us around, showed us where to go and places to hang out and stuff. You know, it was the time when Jill Scott and Tony and Rachel Brown were at the club, so some awesome players and awesome people who, you know, it's hard not to feel comfortable in a group of players like that, so, yeah. And then I'm assuming it's just that I've been like, huh? Yeah, I wasn't here for very long, unfortunately. I was off to America for university about nine months later, but Simone's obviously made this her home for quite a while now. We stayed, like, in Liverpool for the first couple of months and then Lizzie went off to Harvard and I went off to Edge Hill. She's got a masters there. You had to go to Harvard, did you? Of all the places in the world, Harvard. So I went to Edge Hill, which is just outside Liverpool, so I moved up there, so it's just outside Liverpool, but obviously then got to know people and I've really settled now in Liverpool. So I've literally only just recently finished doing my masters. We should have a little count in the corner of how many times she says that. Obviously, I don't joke about your masters, but it's a fantastic achievement, considering, you know, you've become a full-time professional. Just tell me about the areas that you've both studied and where the thinking was behind, where that's going to take you. Okay, well, a bit different to me, so I'll go first. So I did an undergrad degree in sports coaching and towards my final year I kind of looked more specifically at, like, basically with being a professional myself, I kind of looked into the effects of receiving video analysis feedback and how as an athlete I perceive it and how coaches are delivering it, so more in towards the coach education to help better educate coaches. So from my undergrad I did a paper on that which got published and then we kind of seen potential to kind of further that research, so that's what led me in to doing my masters. So instead of looking just at how players were receiving it, I kind of went in and looked at how coaches were delivering it on a wider spectrum of athletes. So I've just recently finished that, so that paper is hopefully going to get published as well, so the aim, kind of, of my research was to kind of get stuff out there that coaches can kind of lift it up and be like, oh, I never thought of it this way, maybe it can help me think of how I can deliver my sessions to athletes because this is how they're perceiving it, so that was kind of like the path I kind of chose. I really enjoyed it to be fair. Just a quick one for you, Saib. Seeing your work published, how does that match up to scoring the winner in it again? To be honest, I was really proud of getting a published paper. It's something I never thought I would ever achieve because obviously my whole life's been football for football whereas kind of like the academic side of my life is just not something I, I mean I was always getting good grades and stuff in school but whenever I went to university I really enjoyed my degree and I enjoyed the work and I found it just, I don't know, I just really enjoyed doing it. So then when I went in and they said that they wanted to kind of publish my paper I was like, whoa, I just never imagined that I would ever do something like that so I was really, really proud of it. I mean I printed out the published paper and framed it. I was like, this is going on my wall. I was, I was so proud of that one to be fair. Others are yours as children's cheesed to that level. Here we go. I don't have a master's to be fair. No, I, so yeah, I went off to America, went to Harvard and I studied economics. Didn't think I would study economics when in with the idea of actually going to medical school one day and so I started a biology type degree and then switched up and realised I really enjoyed economics and I have done a finance internship since then in London and really enjoy that sort of atmosphere, the very fast paced, very interesting work so you know, I think for me down the line that might be something I continue with but you know, I've just really enjoyed studying a wide variety of behavioural economics all the way through to finance so that was my thing. Very similar. Very much. I'll be 220. Is this a very obvious deliberate attempt to compare and contrast? That's literally the perfect one. This is one I prepared earlier. I would imagine being able to go over to Harvard, settling to life in there and enjoying it because I know we've had a conversation the way you love it out there would have made it quite easier to then come back here and resettle back into the course. Yeah, it helped and at the same time you know, every time I moved somewhere when I first moved to Harvard it was really hard, when I first came back it was really hard because you sort of learnt to love a place and then yeah, I sort of ripped away from it but yeah, you know, like you said I've moved a few times now so I kind of know that there's a bit of a moving adjustment period but then you really start to love it so it's nice to have that experience to have lived in a few different countries now. And the fact that you've carried on your studies would suggest it? Perhaps both of you have already got one eye on one of the professionals? Yeah, I'd say on a serious note like the reality is we have to. Being, you know, as far as the women's game has come which is great we say 10 years ago we didn't know whether we could even be professional footballers and now there is that path for girls but the reality is we don't know how long we'll be able to play for and any athlete you never know when you could get injured and have to stop playing. But for me personally I definitely see myself having sort of a two stage career of doing my football and using my degree to do something else so I've definitely got that in the pipelines I'm working on. Yeah and I've thought about maybe doing a PhD or something when I finish then I'll be Dr. McGill imagine. She would demand that we call her Dr. McGill as well. I'd be no more Simone. I don't know. I mean I've also thought about opening a coffee shop. I mean I love coffee and like where I live at the minute there's no like kind of speciality coffee shop so that I know it's disaster. So I've thought oh there's the gap you know getting have my own coffee shop no idea what I would call it yeah I mean I've had a few ideas but I know what I kind of want like I went into a coffee shop the other day I had swings as seats. I was like I'm definitely having that in me. And that dogs allowed you bring a pug in you get a free coffee you know little things like that. But yeah. Do you have a dog? It's going to be a little picture of Chester in the corner. Now that you're. Just put that. That's amazing. Oh ladies. I'm getting too excited. Obviously when you're part-time players yes young girls are going to look at you and go I want to play football forever. But now that you're professionals do you feel like almost that pressure is intensified? That the women's game has come that far that now it is a very real dream for young girls to make a living out of that football. I think like I think it's fantastic for young girls to be able to look and see that there are people out there that are playing football full-time now. I mean when we were kids we didn't have that and I mean growing up our role models were always male footballers whereas for young kids now they can look and see female footballers and I just think you know it's fantastic that they can do that now and it says how far the games come and the fact that we could potentially be role models for young kids is you know I think it's great. Yeah for us it was such a like a stigmatized or an out of the ordinary thing for girls to go and play football and you know you were doing something very different to what your cohort of girls are doing whereas now it's a pretty you know normal thing you know girls can play football and that's great and they can you know see there's an obvious pathway for them to continue playing football if they want to and that it's absolutely fine to choose to do that instead of you know going off and doing other things that maybe you might feel pressured that you should be doing. So you know it's great to we're really lucky to have been born when we were and have this opportunity to do what we do now so yeah. You've obviously been part of different squads from international squads and they've always been made up of different kinds of people which just shows that if you really want to be a footballer you can do it. Yeah anyone obviously you need to be able to kick a ball but anyone really can do it you know very different people from all walks of life. Different characters everything I mean if it's something that you want bad enough you know going back to the choices that you had to make if you make the right choices and you're really driven and you work hard every day then why can't it be you too do you know what I mean?