Inside the Lionesses camp: Yorkshire Tea and Harry Potter

While Sarina Wiegman and Millie Bright were conducting their pre-match press conference from the stadium in Brisbane last Friday, FA staff were frantically preparing their World Cup base, about 560 miles away.

They had three days to realise the vision of staff and players that had been months in the planning before the Lionesses arrived on Sunday, the day after they opened their group D campaign with a 1-0 win over Haiti. Among the more orthodox items such as tactics boards and football shirts that were being moved into the Crowne Plaza base camp in Terrigal were 1,040 Yorkshire Tea bags, bottles of HP sauce, and boxes of HiLo protein bars — developed by nutritionists that have worked with the All Blacks, New Zealand’s rugby