It’s not quite gallows humour but Louise Quinn has been in the game long enough to know when a good laugh is needed to ease the tension.
It was her compatriot Eleanor Ryan Doyle, recently signed from Peamount United, who provided the Birmingham City dressing room with some, albeit unwitting, levity.
Tension was understandably high as manager Darren Carter and assistant Tony Elliott dissected the minutiae of a particularly humbling 5-0 defeat to Manchester United.
