That Sam Kerr and Fran Kirby did not send five or six goals past Arsenal's defence on December 5, 2021, that only three somehow sufficed them, will always prove one of football's more bizarre enigmas.
The day belonged to the pair, a peak "Kerrby" performance that ran the then-league leaders riot across their Women's FA Cup final 3-0 victory in which Jonas Eidevall's side did not register a single shot on target in the first half.
It was a performance fitting for a postponed final that inadvertently landed 100 years to the day since the Football Association banned women from playing football on grounds belonging to affiliated men’s clubs on the basis that the game was “quite unsuitable for females”.
