Matildas star Mary Fowler has outlined the racism she experienced while playing for French club Montpellier, in her new memoir In Bloom.

Fowler joined the French club in 2020 as a 17-year-old and left for Manchester City two years later, and in her book details how she and her friend Ashleigh Weerden were treated after their final home game for the club.

There was a post-match presentation on field for departing players, who were given flowers, but Fowler says she and Dutchwoman Weerden were left out.

"Afterwards, when we got inside the changing room, some of our teammates questioned why we hadn't received any flowers," Fowler wrote.

"We shrugged our shoulders, just as clueless as they were.

"A few of the girls laughed about it and then one of the other players came over and handed my

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