Fran Kirby: 'The cardiologist said if I didn't slow down, I wouldn't play again'

The Chelsea No 10's career was in peril when she developed pericarditis, but now she's fit and ready for a new WSL season Fran Kirby knew something was wrong, very wrong, when she could no longer climb her stairs without resting halfway. The Chelsea and England No 10 - once described as her country's Mini Messi - was also suffering stabbing chest pains, breathlessness, nausea and dizziness. Medics feared her career could be over. "I was extremely vulnerable and very poorly for a long time," says...