Tracey Neville
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Throughout my life, my brothers always have protected me.
And they weren't there at that particular time, which I really struggled with.
I just remember they both got on a flight straight away and come out.
And a bit like what the Neville family do, they come in, they cause chaos, and then they get out.
And I think the hardest thing for me was that the support I had in Sydney was then suddenly taken away from me.
And I was left, obviously, in Australia.
And in the end, my partner got on a flight with 24 hours notice and come out.
it just felt i just remember that you know the right thing to do was for my brothers to take my mum home and but then i'd lost everybody at that time and i felt that that was probably one of the hardest times of my life and i think but it also drove us on as a family to and me as a family and obviously out of that now with me retiring has come nev who i attribute to the most important people in my life which was my dad
Gary gets called Nev, Philip gets called Nev and I always get called Nev.
And, you know, I felt that everything that's happened was for a reason.
But in a way, because of the closeness that we had, I felt that I was able to drive on in that particular post and start to achieve, which at first I didn't think I would be able to without the support of my dad, because he's been the biggest mentor to me all my life.
That was a really hard time.
I think for me what it recognised was that the way I'd come into the post was that I wasn't around a team and you talk about team culture and people getting around you in what-if scenarios and that wasn't the case then and it was a very isolated scenario and very lonely but I don't think it actually hit where I felt that I'd lost everything was to laughter and I think when I
I went back and got given the full-time England post.
I think that was when probably for the next year, I felt probably the most loneliest because we were probably going through, in the Roses, the most difficult time.
We haven't got great results.
A lot of players weren't coming into the programme.
We were setting up a new era of the centralised professional programme.
And I think then was probably the loneliest time probably of my life where I really did start to miss my dad.
At the time, through them 10 days in the World Cup,