As Cori Williams fired in her third goal of the day and Cardiff City Ladies’ sixth last weekend, the conversational tide around Ocean Park Arena jumped a week in time.
The fast forward was inevitable. For all the platitudes regarding the magic of the cup, an inherent enamour remains for it, not least in the fourth tier of women’s football on a just-above freezing afternoon in Cardiff.
Cardiff City Ladies are into the fourth round proper of the FA Cup. An away fixture this Sunday to Burnley Women – sat third in the Northern Premier Division, a tier above Cardiff who ply their trade in fourth-tier Division One South West – awaits them.
