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“I haven’t seen this photo before, I like this!” smiles Ella Toone as she looks at one of the 20 posters to have been delivered to Carrington from the printers that morning.

We’re sat in an office inside the women’s team building at United’s training ground on a Tuesday afternoon, the day before the Reds would head to Madrid in the Women’s Champions League, and the subject of these large, glossy photos – as you might have guessed – is United Women’s first double centurion, who would go on to hit that landmark figure in our spirited victory against Atletico in the Spanish capital.

What better way, we reasoned, to celebrate Tooney’s 200 United appearances than by her talking through these great photographic memories – and then by asking her to sign them so we can give them away to you fans?

More on that later, but let’s get cracking in chronological order, beginning with Ella’s debut, aged just 18…

Appearance #1
Liverpool 0-1 United, 19 Aug 2018

Context: Ella’s senior debut for United (but not her first senior game), in United Women’s...