Portsmouth’s Rosie McDonnell, a nurse, and London Bees’ Hayley West, a physio, on life in the coronavirus crisis
“It’s been an absolute baptism of fire,” says the nurse and Portsmouth left-back Rosie McDonnell. “I was told it was going to be hard but I didn’t quite think we’d be in a pandemic.”
When McDonnell qualified as a nurse in September and began work at Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital, juggling that with football, it was “difficult”, and that was before coronavirus ruptured societal norms.
Written by Suzanne Wrack
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