It was probably the hardest point in my career. Losing cup finals, losing leagues, losing anything – I think that trumped it all."

Touching on the National side of things then, can you tell us about the highs and lows of the World Cup?

I think looking back I need to learn to be mentally strong. I think mental toughness was the biggest part of it, just because it was a bit of an emotional rollercoaster the whole tournament. We were all overwhelmed about it being our first tournament, but believed that we could get out of the group. We lost our first two games in quite difficult circumstances I think. I felt that we were unfortunate. You go two goals down and then you get yourself back in the game you start to believe that you can do it as well, and then you get a couple of decisions against you and then time’s up. It does take an emotional strain on you.

The last game took me a lot of time to recover from. It was probably the hardest point in my career. Losing cup finals, losing leagues, losing anything – I think that trumped it all. Honestly, I couldn’t even describe how I felt. Emotionally, when you feel powerless, it’s the hardest feeling in the world. At that moment, I didn’t really know what to feel. My legs were shaking and it was like an out of body experience. You have it in your hands, you’re going though, you’re qualifying, you’re three goals in front. Two goals, 15 minutes left. Ah no problem, we’ve got it. We were cruising. Everything was fine. We were in the home straight. And then it just took a massive bump in the road. At the top level if you don’t finish teams off they will punish you. But the thing is we thought we did finish them off. It was difficult circumstances and it was upsetting for everyone because we felt we should have got out of the group. That’s the hardest part.

When you went home did you need to speak with anyone?

I didn’t go home. I couldn’t go back to Scotland. I didn’t want people feeling sorry for me. I didn’t want people approaching me and saying “Sorry for what happened”, because the whole country was watching on TV. The whole country saw it. Everybody knows you. All 23 of us have become popular figures in the country. Everyone knew who you were, especially in your home town. So that’s why I thought going home wasn’t the best thing for me at that moment, and I just didn’t want people feeling sorry for me. I chose to take myself out of the situation and go on holiday and then come back to London.

Do you feel like the whole experience has just made you hungry for more success?

Yeah, I think as a group we want to experience more. That’s two back-to-back major tournaments that we’ve qualified for, so it’s been exciting and it’s a good time for women’s football. We feel like we’re only going up and we can only get better, because this team has got so much more to give. It’s a massive achievement in itself for Scotland to qualify for its first-ever World Cup. A lot of the girls have given up a lot of things and sacrificed a lot to get to where they are. I’m so happy for the older ones as well.