At 59, I'm playing football again - it's made me feel younger

At 59, I'm playing football again - it's made me feel younger

“I never imagined being 59 – never mind being a 59-year-old footballer,” Deb Adkins, a nurse from Bath, admits to me. Two years ago, Adkins was trying to lose weight when a Facebook call-out from a local women’s team recruiting new members caught her eye. “I played a lot as a child in the 70s with my brother and I loved it,” she says. Fuelled by fond memories, she signed up and summoned the courage to join their next session. “I was really unfit…