Dodie is Captain of the Netbusters women's football team. They are top of their league and have a big game this Saturday.
Dodie has pulled Catherine, an aging player, out of the starting line up. Last season Cath was scoring brilliantly. In the game against the Girl Pipers, Dodie fed her, Cath dummied, cut inside the Pipers' defence and bent a superb shot round Relper into the top corner.
But Cath started doing benders of a different kind, burning the candle at both ends, and her game went right off. A spell on the benches might just focus her thinking.
If she's pulled, she'll bring a case of sexual harassment.
Dodie considers her husband. He plays in his matches while she plays in hers. A peck on the cheek, teenage children: it's a settled life.
She imagines the scandal, the embarrassment. She has just learned that football is the most important thing in her life. But she'll have to betray it for that life.
Glum, she stands, admitting defeat. Cath will start.