Welcome, guilty feminists, to this very special feel-good episode made possible by the National Lottery.

I have it on good authority that it's coming home this year. That was a football reference there.

That's right. I'm a feminist, but although I've never been much of a football person,

I dabble here and there and pretend I know more than I do. I'm a feminist, but sometimes I get men

to explain the offside rule to me to make them feel more important. It's the women's euros,

which is on right now. It's July, it's 2022. It's time for the women's euros.

In the past 10 years, over 50 million pounds of National Lottery funding has gone into women's

football, helping women all over the UK enjoy the game, supporting all levels from England's

top goal scorer, Ellen White to grassroots football superstar, Comfort at Tim. And it's comfort,

I will be talking to him in today's episode. She has done some incredible work with refugee women,

Connect, a National Lottery funded charity set up to support women of asylum seekers, refugees,

and survivors of trafficking. We've spoken about comfort before in a previous episode,

number 306, where her teammates came on the podcast to talk about the football team and

there were asylum journeys. The impact that Comfort has had came through loud and clear. It was a

really emotional episode. I wept and I recommend you go back and listen. I laughed as well. It's not

sad. It's amazing what Comfort's done for so many women, but we didn't hear her own remarkable

story. So together with the National Lottery, we wanted to bring her live on the show. Comfort's

life has always involved football in some of her brightest and darkest moments from being brought

over to the UK on false pretenses by a man posing as a football scout to seeking asylum after she

was selected to join the Tottenham Hotspores women's team. So without further ado, it is my honor to

introduce to the Guilty Feminist Comfort at Tim. Massive applause. Now, Comfort, thanks so

much for joining me today on the Guilty Feminist. Thank you for having me. So first of all,

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