Your daughter is getting her period: football-specific things to plan for.

She mentioned it in the car on the way home from training, sideways, looking at her phone. Or her mother told you. Or you found the empty box in the bathroom bin. However you came to know, your 11-year-old daughter has started her period, or is about to, and you are now responsible for a small operational question that sits alongside the medical side her GP will handle, and the personal side she will mostly want to navigate privately: how does this affect her football. Training Tuesday and Thursday, game Saturday morning, mid-cycle game weekend, the kit bag, the coach, the long bus trip to the Gala day. None of those are medical questions. They are logistics. And the parent who handles the logistics well makes the difference between a girl who keeps playing through the next four years and a girl who quietly drifts out of the sport between 11 and 14, which is what happens to most of them.