This is the Guardian.

Today, as the women's world cup approaches,

a former England mid-fielder on what to look out for in this year's contest,

and why she's calling for huge reforms to the game.

The women's world cup starts this week, the US women's team coming off back-to-back world cup titles here.

While we said we'd bring you these shots live and here they are, the Lionesses have arrived

in Queensland after their long journey over to Australia.

Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock UK time, two teams of footballers will walk out onto the pitch at Eden Park,

New Zealand's national stadium.

The players of Norway and New Zealand, like those of each of the 32 countries competing in this year's

world cup, will have been preparing for a moment like this for years.

You're such an inspiration to all the girls and boys out there,

keep smashing it in Australia and do England proud, I'm sure they absolutely will.

England go into this tournament riding high.

When they won last year's Euros, they inspired a nation of women and girls to see that this is our game too.

And they proved to the Football Association, to the government, to school teachers and grassroots

coaches across the country that women's football is worth investing in.

In this world cup, they'll have a lot to prove again.

Can they keep up their success when several of their star players are out injured?

For getting this update on Beth Mead, it was suspected that she'd suffered a really bad injury.

The former England midfielder, Karen Karney, who's now a football pundit and who's just led a landmark

review into the women's game, says they need to go out there with Swagger.

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