There was a defeatist response to the petition a young Everton supporter raised to get Carlo Ancelotti's team's game at Newcastle rescheduled, giving the club's women's side FA Cup Final optimum spotlight. The near 3,000 votes would have been vastly more if someone had taken up the cause.
More fool the authorities and their small minds. Everton lost in the final reckoning – unstitched in extra time by a Manchester City side whose technically superiority was most evident in the Rolls Royce presence of Sam Mewis.
But it was a game which crackled into life, demonstrating to any who might doubt it the quality, physicality and tactical depth of the women's game.