Definition: In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Input: Troubled Championship club Leeds are facing yet more controversy through a twin unfair dismissal and sex discrimination case. Lucy Ward, highly respected women’s footballer who worked as a BBC pundit at the World Cup, has been at Leeds for 17 years on the education and welfare side. She was suspended on the same day as manager Neil Redfearn, her partner of six years, left the club, with Leeds believing they came as a package. Ward was later told by Leeds executive director Adam Pearson that she was being dismissed for gross misconduct for taking too much holiday while on BBC duty in Canada this summer.Lucy Ward was at Leeds for 17 years on the education and welfare sideWard was suspended on the same day as manager Neil RedfearnLeeds ownder Massimo Cellino thought highly of WardCanterbury agree four-year extension as England kit suppliersPaula Radcliffe ignored BBC when giving TV interviews on Tuesday night 
 Question:Yet _ claims she had received permission from her club line manager Adam Underwood to be away when required by the BBC.

Lucy Ward