Linda Curl

Linda Curl is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder or forward for the England women's national football team winning 62 caps and scoring 27 goals. At club level she won the WFA Cup with Lowestoft Ladies in 1982 and also with Norwich in 1986, scoring in both finals.

Club career

At Lowestoft Ladies Curl won her first WFA Cup with a 2-0 victory over Cleveland Spartans at Loftus Road. She scored the opening goal for the team known as The Waves. Curl was signed by Norwich manager Maureen Martin (nee Reynolds), who was a former team-mate of Curl's in the 1979 WFA Cup final which Lowestoft Ladies lost 1-0 to Southampton WFC. Whilst at Norwich, Curl scored 22 of the goals in a 40-0 win versus Milton Keynes Reserves in the Chiltern League Division Two in September 1983.

International career

Curl made her England debut as a 15-year-old, in a 9–1 friendly win over Switzerland, staged at Boothferry Park, Hull, on 28 April 1977. England lost the subsequent penalty shootout 4–3, as both Curl and Lorraine Hanson had their spot kicks saved by Elisabeth Leidinge. At the 1988 Mundialito Curl finished the tournament as overall top scorer with four goals. She continued playing for England until 1990 when she retired.

Outside of football she worked as a police officer.

Honours

Club Lowestoft FA Women's Cup: 1981–82

Norwich FA Women's Cup: 1985–86