You've got to love a Hope Powell press conference. She's not like these grinning machines that turn up to most football press conferences these days, and she certainly won't spin out the kind of bland soundbites upon which Sven-Goran Eriksson has based his entire contribution the the British media.
"We'll do the best we can and if our best isn't good enough, hey-ho. If it is, happy days," she breezed at a pre-tournament press conference.
But she did allow herself a moment of seriousness, pressing home how hard it is to play football as a woman.
"We've built up to this for the last six years and this is the focus. It's been hard for some of our players, especially some mums in the camp.
"We're away for long periods of time, not just this time but (when we have) back-to-back games it's a week off here and there.
"We've got kids at school [Karen Carney, Eniola Aluko and Anita Asante] doing their A-Levels between the tournament. Some players have taken unpaid leave, some have given up work - it's really tough and that's why, certainly for me and the people involved, you want them to do well because they make huge sacrifices that people do not appreciate.
"We live with the players day in, day out and it's bloody hard - so I just want them to do well."
