I went to school with a guy called ‘Corned Beef’. At 16 years, he was 110kg of southern ‘silverside’ – a head wider than high, a kind of hammerhead if you get the drift. No forehead, no neck, no waist ...

Greeting us with comforting white miso soup, Roka’s new £26 express menu follows up strong – with a cracking crispy prawn, avocado maki and a choice of baby chicken with lemon miso, seabream fillet ...

In BBC Sport's new Eat & Yap series, Alex Scott meets some of the best WSL players to share the food they love and grew up eating, and talk about life on and off the pitch.

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