'The People's View' series from the Premier League celebrates football at all levels.
We'll hear first-hand experiences of life across football, including from those who benefit from the League’s funded programmes.
This is the game we all love, and these are views from the community.
Alison Schofield has been an Oldham Athletic fan for her entire life, having attended her first match when she was just six weeks old.
Her dedication and support for the Latics has led her to become a Female Liaison Officer at the club, helping to to create a welcoming and comfortable place for female fans at Oldham's Boundary Park home.
This is her story.
"First and foremost, I'm a fan. I've been going to the game since I was a baby. When people say, 'What's your first memory?' I don't have one, like you don't have a first memory of home, I've been brought up here.
"Some people ask, 'What's your Premier League team?' And if I say I'm from Manchester, 'Red or blue?' Well, a different type of blue. For me, you have one team, and mine's Oldham Athletic.
"Dad is Oldham. We're really close, though we argue about football, line-ups, managers. He still sits with me, to be fair, he's three rows in front now, because he's still very loud, but I'm lucky we can go to games together.
"It's a family, it's loyalty and you keep showing up for them. It's the fans that make it. I remember one game in League One. We were losing six, seven-nil against Cardiff. Cardiff filled their stand and it was a great atmosphere. We were getting battered, we scored and everyone cheered, it was hilarious. This is what it is, and we know that, we don't expect too much.
"I've never felt I shouldn't be here. There might have been times when my dad's said, 'Come on, my daughter's here', and to me, 'Whatever you hear at football stays at football,' if the language was too much. I remember seeing women, but you can remember faces, it shows how few there were.
"As I got older, I started to experience sexist abuse from away fans. One match, I was leaving, walking alone to the car park as they were all getting in coaches, the first chant was made at me. I was 15.
"A couple of years ago now, Oldham were looking for ambassadors, someone said to me, 'Aren’t you part of Her Game Too? You'd be great.' I applied to be the ambassador. I met with Pam, who's Head of Safeguarding here, and talked about changes we wanted to see.
"I've recruited the best team of advocates and our first player advocate, Abbey, and we work with the Female Liaison Team at the club.
"Together, we've organised things like the 'Girls' Night' we held for International Women's Day, where we had female fans and staff discuss their experiences, celebrate the club and see what we could improve.
"We've added sanitary products to both home and away toilets, brought in sponsors and hosted Her Game Too fixtures with the girls teams and mascots. We have meetings with supporters' groups, including The Athleticos, and work together to make sure everyone feels heard.
"Our under-8 to under-14s girls have been kicked off a local pitch because another team required it. They've had this slot since 2020, it's been confirmed for ages, and they're kicked off. We're supporting the team and challenging this, because we got told the men's team take precedent. When people say there are not issues, there are!
"Some people don't understand what Her Game Too is. It started as a campaign to support female fans that go to the men's game, to combat sexist abuse, so that women and girls feel welcome watching, playing or working in football, because the amount of abuse they receive still is shocking.
"I'll speak with ambassadors from clubs all over the country, but especially locally, at Rochdale and Bolton. We'll share ideas and problems and help each other out.
"It's not that we've come in because there's an issue, but if there is an issue we can help. We've got live reporting systems on matchdays if there is an incident. They can put a report in through the campaign as well, we're working closely with Kick It Out, it's about education.
"We had a lineswoman get a lot of abuse, because she wasn't having a great game. They're saying she wasn't having a great game because she's a woman. We're calling out that behaviour, addressing it. I am all for banter, which is between friends, if I'm not your friend then we establish boundaries.
"Encouraging more people into the club, especially women, is only a good thing. A lot of women do go now, and at Oldham we're very lucky, we've got a great club, great fans and Community Trust. We'd like more at all clubs, and that's what I'm working on.
"It's about showing female supporters they're understood and making sure women and girls feel safe at games. If it isn't, if there is an issue, even a small one we want to help resolve it. Some people think that there's no issues at all, because they never hear it or see it, but that's not the case, it still happens to this day.
"We don't want to be seen as women in football, just as fans, but we're not so until we are I'm going to keep pushing that message that women belong in football."