The tone is somewhere between genuinely affronted and tickled pink. “Give it our all ?” Cardiff City Ladies FC chairwoman and former Wales international Michele Adams MBE laughs from the other end of the telephone. It is three days before Cardiff City Ladies host Portishead Town Ladies FC in the first match of the 2022/23 season, a season which will be played out in the FA National League’s fourth tier Division South West after the club’s shock relegation in the previous campaign.
“Come on now, ‘give it our all’," Adams laughs again with faux contempt. “We’re there to win. No one remembers second, do they? Come on, we’re there to win!”
By goal number five (and a third for Cardiff City LFC’s Emily Sargent to seal an audacious first-half hat-trick in all of seven minutes), that much is clear. On a scorching Sunday afternoon, Caerau Ely’s Cwrt-yr-Ala Ground is Cardiff City LFC’s own personal playground.
