It’s apparent that the experienced midfielder loves soaking up knowledge, and if that gives her an extra one per cent on the pitch, she’ll take it. That’s why she has now taken up learning Spanish in addition to what she’s already accomplished during her spare time.

‘It's an interesting one, to be fair,’ she says when we discussed her life away from the pitch at our Cobham training ground prior to the international break. 'With the business degrees and stuff that I'm doing, there's actually been a lot of good leadership modules.

'I’ve been learning different types of leadership and understanding that having flaws and not being the best at everything all the time is okay. And being able to admit that is okay. So I've actually enjoyed the theory behind it, so it's just putting it into practice now.

‘Between that and learning Spanish, I've not got a lot of time! I can now talk a bit with Mayra (Ramirez), and I can ask her how she's doing around the training ground and stuff. We can have a nice little conversation, which is really amazing. It's really opened up my eyes.’

Studying provides Cuthbert with an outlet, and after exercising her body on the training ground, she switches to exercising her mind once she gets home.

She also feels like hitting the books can have a grounding effect. Cuthbert acknowledges the privileges that playing football for a living brings and seeks to welcome a slice of reality into her world by preparing for life after her career comes to an eventual close.

‘My education is really important to me,’ she continues. ‘I love an escape. No matter what's going on in your life, in football, at work - whether it's good, bad, or indifferent, you can get your head in the books.

‘I need to have that little bit of space to think away from football, because it can become really consuming. I really enjoy working my brain, and I think, as footballers, we can get caught up in a little bit of a bubble sometimes, so we don't know a lot of what's happening in the outside world, and we are so lucky. I feel like having the studies and having the language gives me a little bit more of a perspective.

‘Business really does interest me. As much as I live and breathe football, it's not everything in your life, because we have such short careers. It's important that we think about what's after, and it has to start now, while you're still playing.'