It might have been ten years ago, but former Chelsea striker Ashlee Hincks is adamant about one thing.
The Blues did not deserve to lose their first-ever FA Women's Super League match - a 1-0 defeat to Arsenal courtesy of a goal from Gilly Flaherty.
"I remember vividly we shouldn't have lost it," she told football.london. "There were massive patches of sand in either goal and the ball dropped, and they got it in - but we should have scored as well.
"But it was a good game to open the WSL brand!"
Then aged 22, Hincks was excited to be part of a new era of the game, and play that first-ever fixture at Imperial Fields. With the majority of players then still semi-professional, she was lining up alongside the likes of Lionesses Carly Telford and Claire Rafferty in the blue shirt. Opponents in the Gunners side included now England captain Steph Houghton.
"It's a long time ago now, but that's my little claim to fame," she said.
"It was a massive thing. We had thousands at the game. I remember pulling in and there was a huge queue of people. It was so different to what we'd had previously - it was a really good experience."
She spent two years in the top flight with Chelsea. Since then, coach Matt Beard departed, with Emma Hayes appointed in 2012. She has revolutionised the club, now fully professional, and led her squad to three WSL titles as well as three Women's Champions League semi-finals.
Hincks, meanwhile, is now at Crystal Palace, in the Championship, women's football's second tier, and looks back on the last ten years with fond memories.
"I'm not old, but I'm still in that generation where I've still been a part of everything coming through as it changed," she said. "The WSL now, it's an unbelievable league - definitely, I would say, the best in the world, 100 per cent, the players that we're attracting, the competitiveness of the game.
"But you've now also got the knock-on effect, the league below now want a piece of that. 'Okay, well, we want to get up there - how can we do that?' The only option is to go full time. If you want to win the Championship, you do need to go full-time. So it's then having a knock-on effect on the league below.
"Even if you're not in that WSL category, you're attracting players from abroad, younger players, the likes of myself, playing at the Championship level, you've still got the opportunity to go full-time if that suits your personal circumstances which is amazing. Go back ten years, that's literally all I would have wanted."
