Kerr picks up on this theme, noting how changes to the women’s game have successfully brought in a new generation of fans. “It doesn’t matter if it’s men’s or women’s football: it’s the same format, it’s the same game and people are jumping on board and watching it.” “Every football fan wants to turn on the TV and see those big matches, those big rivalries,” she says, her eyes lighting up. She scored five goals in the group stage this season, with Chelsea finishing top above Paris and Real Madrid. It means even more now than it did when I first came.” “Going to the final and losing – I kind of got the taste for it. “One of the main reasons I came to Europe was to win the Champions League,” she says, before referencing the 2021 showpiece against Barcelona that didn’t go to plan. Since then she’s won silverware galore – but there’s one trophy that still eludes her. The 29-year-old Australian striker made her debut for Chelsea in early 2020. Once Bright has finished and Sam Kerr is in the hot seat, it’s my turn to ask questions. She winds her window down: “Is this the bungalow?” I just say yes, rather than getting into a discussion over it. While I’m waiting, who should pull up but the footballer I’m here to speak to. Millie Bright is inside being interviewed by DAZN, so I don’t want to create a racket by clattering through the door midway through. Having parked up, I loiter outside the bungalow/cabin without logs. Its setting is lovely, though: nearby there’s a lake with fountains everywhere you look there are trees and green bits. One storey, yes, but it’s more of a cabin (and not one made of logs, before you ask). In truth, to describe ‘the bungalow’ thus is a touch misleading. Is a bungalow not the preserve of elderly residents with net curtains and neat flowerbeds? Still, the man on the gate nods and points the way, so it must be a thing.

I never expected to be at Chelsea’s sprawling, hi-tech training complex and asking to get to such a building.

I tell the man on the gate that I need to get to ‘the bungalow’.

Kicking Goals Journal by Sam Kerr