{"id":471,"date":"2025-05-23T17:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/sywf\/?p=471"},"modified":"2025-05-29T15:30:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:30:01","slug":"this-is-what-i-want-to-be-a-part-of-charlotte-finch-reflects-on-her-return-to-the-sjr-worksop-and-newfound-stardom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/sywf\/2025\/05\/23\/this-is-what-i-want-to-be-a-part-of-charlotte-finch-reflects-on-her-return-to-the-sjr-worksop-and-newfound-stardom\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThis is what I want to be a part of\u201d Charlotte Finch reflects on her return to SJR Worksop and newfound stardom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Credit: Graham Pool<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

SYWF spoke to SJR Worksop Captain, Charlotte Finch about her journey into the game, her dramatic return to SJR and the overall growth of the women’s game<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So Charlotte, let’s kick things off with your first memories of football and a gist of how you got to where you are today?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo I was 8 years old when I first started with Moorends Hornets boys team. First game, I scored, got Man of the Match, (because that’s what it was called back then) and I’ll never forget that game. Then, from what my parents say, I just fell in love with it, but back then there weren’t really many women’s teams or girls teams at all.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe only real big setup at that time was Doncaster Belles Juniors so I got put with them. I was with them for a few seasons up until my late teens but you get to an age where you have to think \u2018is football going to be a career or not?\u2019 And it was never going to be a career for me back then. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo then you obviously get into work, you start hanging out with friends, get a social life, a car etc, and football just takes a back seat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still played but not as serious or as full time as I say that I probably am now. Eventually I got back into it and played for the likes of Rotherham, Doncaster Belles, God everywhere<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI then joined Worksop just because I knew some of the girls in the team. You’re talking about four or five years ago and I remember we were getting battered every game.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had an FA Cup game with Lincoln and we lost 6-1. Nothing was clicking, even the kits, we just got the old men’s shirts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI left Worksop because I moved up to Derbyshire, which is where I live now, and I joined Buxton Ladies and then Buxton Juniors. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHonestly, if it wasn\u2019t for Buxton Juniors, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d still be playing football. You get to a certain point and you think, \u2018Am I enjoying it anymore?\u2019 You question what you’re doing, and I had about half a season with them and the girls in the squad itself, the coaches, the season we had, it just made me fall back in love with football again. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEventually, it led to Lee [Scott]<\/a> calling me and having the conversation of \u2018Do you want to come to Worksop?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI had to really think about it because obviously Buxton Juniors were such a good squad, we\u2019d just won the league undefeated and it was like \u2018do I want to leave something that I’ve got good here to go to Worksop?\u2019 But after 10 minutes of the conversation between myself, Lee and [Andrew] Guest,<\/a> I was sold.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n