Alex Scott admitted to 'gross' job cleaning Ian Wright and Sol Campbell's pants

The former footballer, 36, said she took on the “gross” job during the early days of her playing career while she was still semi-pro. Alex has since become a well-known football pundit on BBC Sport and is one of the broadcaster’s presenters for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The ex-England star was announced as the new host of the BBC’s ‘Football Focus’ in May, taking over from Dan Walker to become the show’s first permanent female presenter in its 47-year history.

The former Arsenal and England full-back made 200 appearances for her club and earned 140 caps for her country.

The Lioness star was also part of Team GB for the London 2012 Olympics and won a bronze medal for her country at the 2015 Women’s World Cup.

She also recently joined FIFA22 as a commentator, becoming the first English-speaking female broadcaster to appear in the video game.

However, a recently surfaced TV appearance shows that life in football was not always glamorous for Alex.

During an appearance on Sky One’s sports comedy panel show, ‘A League of Their Own’ the pundit admitted she used to work in the Arsenal laundry.

Speaking to host Amanda Holden, she said she used to have to do the Gunners’ laundry, including for Ian Wright and Sol Campbell.

“I worked in the laundry, we weren’t professional then, we were only semi-pro, so I used to wash their pants,” she told the panel.

She said the team’s smalls were in a “gross” state and she was forced to wear gloves to handle the clothes, especially during summertime in pre-season.

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The Games, which were postponed from last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, kicked off on Wednesday, with football, baseball and softball among the first sports played.

The opening ceremony of the Games will take place on Friday, with the first medal events set for Saturday.

Olympics organisers have been hit by crisis after crisis due to a surge in Covid cases in Tokyo and major domestic opposition to the biggest sporting event of the year.

The latest scandal came on Thursday as the Olympics opening ceremony director Kentaro Kobayashi was sacked after it emerged he had made jokes about the Holocaust.

A video of the official during a comedy show from 1998 recently surfaced, including showing him saying: “Let’s play Holocaust.”

Japan’s Olympics minister chief Seiko Hashimoto said Kobayashi had ridiculed “painful facts of history”.

On Thursday 12 new positive COVID-19 cases linked to the Games were reported by the Olympics organising committee, two of which are in foreign athletes in the athletes’ village.

A total of 87 people linked to the Games have so far tested positive.

source: express.co.uk