English footballer of fifty with a total of two sons (7)

Times Cryptic #28798 | 21 Down | 2023-12-28
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

Before getting the O from product, I expected this to be a named footballer, probably called LAWLESS, which rang a bell, but there aren’t any dead ones who played for England, instead its a generic female English player. Rather cleverly, fifty is L , a total of two is I (one) plus ONE, with two S(ons) attached.

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