Jill Scott (footballer)

Jill Louise Scott, born on 2 February 1987, is an English footballer who retired from the professional game in 2022 after a career as a midfielder. Standing 5 feet 11 inches, she was nicknamed Crouchy after the tall male international Peter Crouch. The FIFA technical report on the 2011 Women's World Cup named her as one of the four outstanding players in the England team, an energetic ball-winning midfielder who organised the side and worked hard at both ends of the pitch. She left her hometown club Sunderland for Everton in 2006 and won the FA Women's Premier League Cup in 2008 and the FA Women's Cup in 2010. At Manchester City she won the FA WSL in 2016, and she was voted FA Players' Player of the Year in 2008. After retiring she won the twenty-second series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! and was crowned Queen of the Jungle.