“History will be made at Saturday's Premiership game against Blackburn, with ball girls replacing ball boys for the first time.

The move is part of a series of events planned for the Club's very first Ladies Day.

The ball girls will be from the Everton girls’ under–14 team.

But the women footballers will not just be patrolling the side of the pitch during the match. Members of the senior Everton Ladies side will take to the field at half-time to showcase their skills.

With £1 from every ticket sold being donated to Breakthrough Breast Cancer and other initiative planned that will be detailed later this week on Evertonfc.com, it is sure to be a memorable day.

The intention of the day is to encourage more women to Goodison. At the moment only 12 per cent of Everton season–ticket holders are female, compared to a Premiership average of around 18 per cent.

“A lot of women still see the match as a male environment, so we decided to launch Ladies Day," explained Tracy Weston, the Club's Head of Marketing.

"There is a lot to be done to attract more women to football and to Everton in particular. Historically, it has always been perceived as a man’s game. I’m not sure why, in this day and age, when you have got 1.6 million women participating in football that more aren’t coming to the game. Our stadium is old and maybe the facilities aren’t particularly conducive to encouraging more women to come in.

This is the first step in trying to encourage more women to come to the game.”

Moving this to Worldwide Leagues.

It's nice to see the women's game being promoted in this way.

But I hope that anyone who decides to give it a try don't lose interest because of the poor communication about what's going on.

Gregolass tells me she went past the Marine FC, where Everton ladies were supposed to play today, and saw there was no game on.

I was going with Ron to this game, and had been warned by Kipax that it might be played at Skem, but it was difficult to confirm this, and only luck helped me to find out it had been moved, but was off anyway.

The news was hidden on the Everton website under the heading "Senior Cup game off."

Can you imagine a headline about a men's game saying "Everton reserves game postponed" and read down it and find it mentions something like "the Premiership game has been called off too"?