If you ever had a collaboration involving a fairy tale and Partick Thistle, this would be it, the Jags have epitomised what women’s football has been about over the last 10 years.

Starting as a recreational club with a dozen people following their beloved club, they have spurt grown so quickly that if you aren’t proactive enough then you’ll get left behind at G20 7AL come Sunday morning.

Thistle deserve any accolade that comes their way come the end of the weekend regardless of the outcome at Tynecastle. From their grassroots days kicking a ball about for fun around council pitches in Glasgow, the club now host crowds of 400-500 and hosted Hamilton Accies at Firhill earlier in the season.

By the time your scrambled eggs get munched up before the big game, that’s butterflies in the stomach straight away, that’s success in women’s football in my eyes – teams live and die by results but an achievement is an up-and-coming generation attending matches, crowds in minimum three figure sizes and putting a smile on people’s faces – giving them something to believe in.

Tom Hosie, matchday programme editor at Thistle described gaffer Brian Graham in the pre-match podcast and a word that’s echoed around the Petershill dressing room on numerous occasions is ‘belief.’ Can the heroics from the men’s team in 1971 be replicated? Absolutely, Rangers are there to be got at, Thistle were robbed of three points the last time they met at Petershill after an offside goal, that sent shockwaves to many around the Scottish women’s game but not internally within Graham’s dressing room.

Let’s not beat around the bush here, it’s going to be a different proposition at Tynecastle, how Thistle defend against Rangers’s quality of Jane Ross, Lizzie Arnot, Mia Macaulay and Rio Hardy is going to be key but there’s purpose for trouble at the other end in Cara Henderson, Demi Falconer and Carla Boyce.

There’s people around certain areas of Glasgow that are dreaming about a winner from a Henderson or Boyce (or any player for that matter) in the 89th minute in Gorgie on Sunday, that would unsettled the Scottish media who unsettled Graham in his pre-match press conference on Wednesday.

Unsurprisingly, it seemed to be Rangers, Rangers, Rangers, had it been a Hibs, Hearts, Glasgow City or Celtic the opponents on Sunday then our terminology and thought process would have been different altogether but Scottish women’s football needs to embrace how Partick Thistle have come from neverland to participate in the Sky Sports Cup final this Sunday.

Brought into the top flight at the stretch of a button because of Forfar Farmington folding just days before the 21-22 season, the fear inside the Thistle doors was is it too early?

But every challenge in an adventure such as this has to be embraced, nothing is stopping Thistle now, remember Aladdin and how Jafar tried to stop the disney character from succeeding and failed, that’s the feeling right now for the Jags, this is the start of something special in what’s been a spectacular 10 year journey so far.