England Women's 20-0 thrashing of Latvia has rightly opened up a debate about the fairness of international sport when world class professionals take on part-timers.
While it was a record-breaking night for the Lionesses, who racked up their biggest-ever score, it led fans, the England manager and even one of the Latvia player's parents to question the worth of such mismatches.
The parent's comment, left underneath the report of the game on The Guardian website, read: 'I am a bit biased (obviously), but everyone should know these girls should play at their own level and develop without unnecessary humiliation… there is something not quite wholesome about the whole business.'
They added that the time may have come for smaller nations where the players are inexperienced and have day jobs alongside playing football to pre-qualify for the right to take on bigger nations such as England.
It cuts to the heart of the matter: Is it right that amateur athletes, some of whom are still teenagers, are embarrassed in such a way in front of a large crowd inside the stadium and tens of thousands watching at home on television?
Should they instead only be matched with opponents of a similar ability so they might have a chance of winning? Or is the painful humiliation actually 'necessary' so they may one day improve to England's level?
The scoreboard tells a humiliating story as England Women's team thrashed Latvia 20-0
Latvia goalkeeper Alina Sklemenova can't bear to look after conceding the 20th goal
For some of the Latvian players involved, the misery will stretch beyond the 90 minutes.
The goalkeeper who started for Latvia in the World Cup qualifier at Doncaster, 18-year-old Laura Sinutkina, suffered embarrassment enough in conceding eight first-half goals.
But the player who replaced her at half-time, 17-year-old Alina Sklemenova, was not only humiliated by conceding 12 times on her international debut but by having video clips of her mistakes go viral on Twitter.
One was of a clearance that was kicked straight to Manchester United player Alessia Russo, who simply headed the ball back past Sklemenova and into an empty net.
England had 64 shots on the Latvian goal on Tuesday, with 31 on target and 20 finding the net
That was England's 18th goal of the evening and it came less than 10 seconds after Latvia had kicked-off following the 17th.
And a video of Sklemenova, thoroughly demoralised with her team now 20-0 down, slicing a goal kick straight out of play, brought more amusement on social media.
In total, England had 64 shots on the Latvian goal (on average, one every 84 seconds), of which 31 were on target and 20 scored. In reply, Latvia had zero of anything.
It isn't as though such beatings are rare events. In this qualification group alone, England have walloped North Macedonia 8-0, Luxembourg 10-0 and Latvia away from home 10-0. They then took that score and doubled it on Tuesday night.
England have now scored 53 goals in six qualifying matches for the tournament, which will be staged jointly between Australia and New Zealand in 2023.
