Yet twice she found herself trapped in a room above the luxury Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, central London, as the club’s billionaire owner, Mohamed Al Fayed, tried to “forcefully” kiss her, made her sit on his knee while he stroked her, then groped her when she tried to get out.

The former captain of Fulham's women’s team, Ronnie Gibbons, says she was “groped” on two occasions by the late Mohamed Al Fayed when he owned the club.

A BBC documentary said the Egyptian billionaire, who died last year, had sexually abused female staff at Harrods in London and had threatened them if they tried to complain.

The former captain of the Fulham women’s team has revealed that she was sexually assaulted by the club’s ex-owner Mohamed Fayed. Ronnie Gibbons, who was 20 at the time, says that she was twice driven by members of the club’s staff from Fulham’s training ground in New Malden to Harrods in Knightsbridge,