IanMH71 asks: I was introduced to women’s football through my daughter some 12 years ago and I/we’ve been avid football (and AWFC) supporters since. Seeing the game grow and develop over the years in terms of attendances, skill levels and improved player welfare, the pessimist in me worries we will lose what is so great about the women’s game and its surrounding culture – that we feel an important part of it. The optimist feels it will merely change. How do you see the culture changing? And how do we avoid the contempt men’s football appears to have for its supporters?

Suzanne: I share your fears, but am hopeful that enough within the women’s game, in the WSL, in the playing group, are as keen to hold onto that relationship with fans. How players interact with fans is obviously having to evolve with more and more fans attending, but I think there is a will across the board to maintain that connection. Of course that could change in the future, particularly as players become more insulated as they earn bigger and bigger wages and become less socially conscious, which they kind of inevitably will do when they don’t have to work or study alongside their football to the same extent they’ve had to until now.

Hopefully though, there’s enough people that care deeply about retain the best aspects of the women’s game from the preceding years to push back against a separation developing.