How would you celebrate Sheffield's unique status as city where football was born?

If this was Leeds; if this was Manchester; if this was Liverpool...

Any sentence that begins this way, often ends up with Sheffield taking a bit of a battering. When it comes to football and specifically the fact that we brought the flippin’ sport to the world, any criticism is warranted.

But we probably shouldn’t be pointing fingers too much because everyone is to blame and everyone with an interest in promoting our city’s prominance in giving birth to the beautiful game should really be trying to help tell the world our story.

We’ve gaslit ourselves into using a well-worn cliche that we, as a city, shirk at arrogance and vanity as an excuse for nothing happening. We’ve just seemed to accept that shouting about the great things Sheffield has brought to the world and the great things it continues to nurture and achieve is just not a Sheffield thing to do.

Frankly, it’s a ludicrous way of thinking and those in the corridors of power have probably allowed us to let it cultivate, just so they don’t end up having to do anything.

The old-fashioned, almost faux-modesty has to stop. Less hiding our light under a bushel and more placing the spotlight directly on us.

For years, well-intentioned, very hard-working groups of people have attempted to publicise and keep alive our status as the Home of Football but there’s only so much they can do without sizable financial help and know-how outside of their hugely impressive historical knowledge.

Perhaps we are at a stage now where we almost go back to the start and ask the people of Sheffield how they want football and our incredible impact on it to be celebrated.

Do we want a monument, or even more than one, in various entry points to the city?

The ship has sadly sailed over the National Football Museum which is in Manchester, but does that stop us having our own localised version? Where do we want it? How big does it need to be? What should be in it?

What can our two main senior clubs do to help and how do we ensure that young people are on board with it so that there’s a legacy to any campaign.

We want to address the fact that you could barely tell that something of such global significance was born right here but we want you to tell us what that might look like.

All ideas are welcome. This is something we all need to work on together for the benefit of us all.

Let’s forget the modesty and celebrate Football - born in Sheffield!