'I wished I was a man, with what they earned'

'I wished I was a man, with what they earned'

Gillian Coultard is frank about her envy of today’s elite female footballers. Throughout her career in the 1980s and 90s, she not only fitted in four training sessions and a match every week around her full-time factory job, but it was an era when competing at the highest level – even for England – actually cost her money.“Now they can get a job out of it,” she says. “We didn’t have that. Most of the time, I had to pay my own way to play, even t…