Leeds United LFC starlet eyes win over champions Sunderland.
Leeds United LFC v Sunderland LFC
The FA Women's Premier League
2pm, Sunday 9 October 2011
Farsley AFC
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Leeds United Ladies starlet and budding chef Leah Galton reckons Chris Welburn's table-topping side have the perfect recipe for Women's Premier League success.
Galton, 17, is the youngest member of Welburn's squad and currently divides her time between playing for Leeds and her sixth-form studies in food technology and PE.
And the left winger, who has started each of Leeds' six WPL games this season, has urged her team-mates to maintain the form which has seen them take 15 points from a possible 18 in the first third of the campaign.
But Leeds face arguably their sternest test of the season so far when they welcome champions Sunderland to Farsley AFC on Sunday and Galton insists the side are well aware of the threat posed by Mick Mulhern's side and are out for revenge after last season's results against the Black Cats.
"It's the sort of game everyone looks forward to," Galton told TheFA.com.
"At training on Thursday night, we were all reminding each other it is one of the biggest games of the season and we need everything to be quicker and better. We lost both games against Sunderland last year so this is our chance for a bit of revenge.
"I think when it comes to trying to win the League, Sunderland are our biggest rivals because they're so used to winning it.
"Every game against them you want to win because they're the champions but now we're top everyone wants to beat us so it puts pressure on us to keep ourselves there.
"It would be amazing to go further clear at this stage of the season. As soon as you start the league you want to win it and I think because it is such a competitive division it would be lovely to win it."
Galton lives and studies in Harrogate, north Yorkshire, half an hour north of Leeds, but the England youth international revealed that she has taken some of her new-found cookery skills down the road to her team-mates in a mock-up of the hit TV show Come Dine With Me.
She said: "We did a Come Dine With Me last season which was great fun. There were about ten of us who took part and we went to three different houses and scored each other like on the television programme.
"My team did well, we did a Mexican themed night. We had some music blaring and we did a piata. Maybe we can have another one this season but we've got to concentrate on Sunday first."
