Chelsea captain Millie Bright stated players "are not items" and "nobody owns us" following negative experiences with fans.

England's Millie Bright says there needs to be a reminder that female footballers "own ourselves" and that they are "not items".

As the Lionesses were preparing for their first Nations League encounter in the Algarve, news broke that British tennis player Emma Raducanu had been the target of a man displaying “fixated behaviour” ahead of her defeat to Karolina Muchova in the Dubai Tennis Championships.

Millie Bright has delivered an impassioned message to fans that “nobody owns” female sportspeople after Emma Raducanu was left in tears when she spotted a “fixated” spectator in the stands at the Dubai Tennis Championships.

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