Monday's Women's Super League goals compilation came in nine seconds over its slot. That is the story. Nothing else that happened this weekend comes close.
Yes, there were goals. The BBC has all of them, apparently. Strikers struck. Keepers kept. Fine. Football is a background activity. It happens whether anyone films it or not, like weather.
What does not happen on its own is trimming a highlights package to length with a producer breathing on your neck. This is the trench. One video editor sat in the dark at ten past nine with a replay of a bicycle kick frozen on screen and a hard choice to make: lose the celebration or lose the assist. Ironclad decision-making. Flint-hearted. Nine seconds is not a rounding error at this level. Nine seconds is a career.
"He watched the reel nine times to make sure every goal was in there," said one veteran of the video desk, who asked not to be named because the room was still tense. "Then he watched it a tenth time to make sure he hadn't imagined one. I've seen grown men leave this building over less."
