By Matt Weigold
Ms Phillips has witnessed the amateur game transform in recent years but can remember a time when it was a struggle simply to arrange a match.
“Even in your local league, you were expected to travel two hours for an away game,” she recalled.
“There wasn’t enough teams to have a local league.”
Now she and her teammates enjoy healthy competition from nearby teams and look forward to playing in the Staffordshire Premier League next season.
Georgia Fletcher plays alongside her, having joined the team after the Lionesses Euros success after not playing since her schooldays.
“When we were younger, women’s football wasn’t really a thing. We’ve had to fight for it,” she said.
“The Lionesses have done so well and now it’s allowed a new generation of girls to be like them.”