A conversation with a colleague from men’s football, writing his first piece on the women’s game during this year’s World Cup, captured where the coverage of women’s football is. “She has no Soccerbase page,” he lamented, of Ellen White. “I have learned today how much I take for granted. YouTube compilations, stats, loads of profile pieces, highlights.”

To cover women’s football regularly is to learn to treasure video highlights and up-to-date league tables as precious, gentle, sparsely-scattered things. You greet them with awe, and there is almost a temptation to whisper, as if talking too loudly might startle them and send them darting into middle distance in a flurry of flapping wings, like some rare bird.

My first thought on hearing about FA Player, then, the Football Association’s streaming platform from 2019/20 dedicated solely to women’s football, was, therefore, how much easier this will make my life. It promises “access to over 150 live fixtures in all competitions”, and highlights from the Lionesses, the FA Cup and the League Cup. It will be music to everyone’s ears to also learn that the BBC are considering moving the Women’s Super League highlights programme from its current slot of Sunday night at 11pm.