England hero Karen Carney has revealed she was revising for exams on Sunday just hours before scoring the winning goal against Finland in Euro 2005. Carney's fine injury-time finish earned a 3-2 win and the 17-year-old admitted she had not had a normal preparation.
"The FA have bought me a massive book and I've got to read all of it. It's mad," Carney told the FA's website.
"I've been doing revision between training and swimming so now it's back to the books."
Carney has exams on 14 and 17 June - an A-level in Sports Studies and a GNVQ in Leisure and Recreation - and says she cannot solely focus on the European Championship.
 |  Playing in the Europeans at 17 and scoring the winner in the first game, I don't think you can top that |
"I've missed some exams and they're being rescheduled for when I got back to Loughborough.
"The attention doesn't faze me, and it doesn't bother me, and I just do what I normally do."
But despite England leading Group A after the first round of games, Birmingham forward Carney says they must be wary of Sweden and Denmark after they drew 1-1.
"Playing in the Europeans at 17 and scoring the winner in the first game, I don't think you can top that to be honest, it's the best thing I've done so far," she added.
"It was amazing looking around. On set pieces you should be concentrating but you're looking around at the 29,000 people there and thinking that this is what you've worked hard for, this is what you want to do and it is worthwhile.
"It's only the first game and there's still a long way to go.
"It's good for us, after the first game, but we've still got to play Sweden and Denmark and with their result, I'm sure they'll both come at us with all guns blazing."
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