Jill Scott can "sleep anywhere."

Jill Scott can sleep anywhere

Jill Scott can sleep anywhere

The 35-year-old footballer is currently in the Australian jungle as she takes part in 'I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!' but isn't worried about losing sleep in rough conditions because of the years she spent struggling as she build a career in sport.

She said: "I was poorly quite a lot of the time and now I think I know why. I would always get my sleep, because I can sleep anywhere and that's probably why, because I got used to it. ut eating as well. I'd be stopping at the services and just grabbing anything.Some of the food I've eaten, like a Dairylea Lunchable just to get some energy. I was ill quite a lot. I'm touching wood right now because I think in the last eight years of playing for City I've only been unavailable for one game. It's the coffee, it helps your immune system as well."

The former England player went on to explain that she had to cover her own expenses during the early days of her football career but feels "fortunate" to have experienced the "journey" of the sport and has made "so many good friends" along the way.

She told The Daily Mirror newspaper: "When I first started there was a lot of travelling and we didn't get paid to play football, so a lot of the time you were covering your own expenses. I should've had shares in petrol back then. But back then you could put £5 petrol in and that would probably get you up the motorway. It wouldn't nowadays. But I feel so fortunate that I've actually lived the journey of the game and made so many good friends. Because back then it was like, 'Can someone let us sleep on the sofa? I've got training tonight.' It was literally like that, but you made such good friendships through that."

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