This is the moment, this is their time, this is it. For two years, everything has been building towards the start of England’s World Cup campaign. The preparations are complete, the marketing and promotion drives are over. It is time to forget everything else. It is time to play football.

That is Phil Neville’s message. When England launch their assault on the World Cup, looking to become the first English football team to be crowned world champions for 53 years, he wants them to shut everything out, relax, focus and express themselves. Forget the distractions, forget the expectations - just play.

For all these players share an admirable wider goal to promote the women’s game, to spread the word, to create a pathway for future generations, to show millions of young girls that football belongs just as much to them as any boy, none of that matters now.

Never before has a women’s team received so much attention, so much interest. Now, they must justify it. This is about performing and thriving under pressure. It is the hardest thing to do in sport, to rise to the occasion, to shake off the tension and the nerves, to play with freedom, without the crippling fear of failure. That is the challenge England must rise to against Scotland, the challenge they have prepared for and will, hopefully, need to overcome several more times before the final in Lyon in July.