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When it started, it was just five or six girls trying to play a game,” says Una Burnand, one of the three captains of Shepherd’s Booters FC, a mixed-ability football team for women and non-binary players in west London. A photographer and filmmaker by day, Burnand, 27, grew up watching Bend It Like Beckham, the cult 2002 teen football film. “It was also shot in west London,” she laughs.
Burnand is standing on the sidelines of a pitch on Wormwood Scrubs, the 76-hectare park in…
