Is this love? It is for Bunny

MANCHESTER CITY striker Bunny Shaw loves listening to reggae as part of her pre-match routine.

- BY SIMON MULLOCK

And that is fitting, bearing in mind the role that Bob Marley's daughter played in saving the women’s game in Jamaica.

Shaw might have still made it to the WSL, thanks to her talent for putting the ball in the net.

But she is quick to acknowledge the influence that Grammy-winning songstress Cedella Marley had in making sure that the Caribbean island had a national team.

A lack of funding meant the Jamaican women’s squad was disbanded in 2008 - at about the same time Shaw was kicking a ball about on the rutted pitches of Spanish Town with her brother Kentardo.

In stepped Cedella with money and support from her late father's foundation — and the Reggae Girlz duly qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 2019, with Shaw leading the attack.

Four years later, after a two-year spell with French club Bordeaux had earned her a move to Manchester, she captained her country to the last 16 in Australia and New Zealand.