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By Siobhan McNally England’s Lionesses famously have a chef to prepare them a pre-match meal of healthy carbs while they ­chill out playing cards. But a new generation of feisty girl ­footballers prefer beans on toast and giving their boy opponents “death stares”. Meet the Queens Park Ladies under-12s, a crack all-girl team whose unbeaten season against boys’ sides has earned them the nickname The Invincibles, just like Arsenal in 2003-4. The last time I got my knobbly knees out to play footie it was in 1979 when Kevin Keegan perms were in fashion and I was the only girl on a boys’ team. This …

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