The topic of the blatant lack of diversity in the media has once again cropped up nervously from people working in the industry.

Unlike when the issue has been previously raised, it wasn’t in a newspaper editorial or after a sexist comment a TV presenter.

It was by four white men sitting around a table on a Sunday morning, in front of cameras for Sky Sports show Sunday Supplement.

Ignoring the obvious point right there, the question was asked: “When will we see a female chief football writer in the industry?”

It’s a difficult question to answer when there are very few female journalists and none in senior positions on the sport desks around the country.

Unless more women are hired, the reality is that men will climb the ranks higher and continue to dominate.

I attended the women’s FA Cup final at Wembley on Saturday and while there were more women than usual inside the press box, the large majority were there for radio.

It’s as if producers felt that they should get a woman to cover the women’s final. How many will get the chance to report on the final on Saturday between Manchester United and Crystal Palace?

It was a similar situation at last year’s final at Wembley. I remember seeing one female writer, the rest covered the match from behind a camera or with a headset for radio.

Don’t get me wrong, it is and was great to see a press box with increased numbers of female journalists but until sports desks employ more women as writers, we are a very long way from having a female chief football writer.

Morning Star sports writer Suzanne Beishon was at Wembley on Saturday and at Falmer Stadium for the Championship play-off semi-final between Brighton and Sheffield Wednesday.

She messaged me to say that when she arrived at the ground, she was told that she would be the only woman in a packed press room.

She also quickly realised that there wasn’t a single ethnic minority, and that the club were pleased she was there, which makes me wonder how much diversity is there at Brighton on a regular basis?

Beishon told me to visit the stadium as they would probably be just as happy to see a black journalist.

I know freelance journalist Natasha Henry has reported on the club at Falmer Stadium, so that is at least one ethnic minority female reporter who has visited the stadium in a working capacity.

But then again, black female football writers are rare and from conversations with Henry, she has had to fight hard to be respected among her peers and for them to take her seriously.

Going back to the press box at Wembley, not only was there myself and Beishon, but Tashan Deniran-Alleyne attended the match, along with Nigel Wallace, Richard Amofa of the Telegraph, freelancer Dev Patel and Asif Burhan for Kick It Out.

There was a large number of ethnic minorities in the press box on Saturday afternoon and those are just the ones who I know on a personal level.

But as I have said before, too often I am the only ethnic minority sports journalist in a press box and the numbers don’t seem to be improving.

The four journalists on TV Sunday morning said that it will take time to see a noticeable shift in the newsroom and that if you look at the terraces a couple of decades ago, it was full of white males.

Fast forward to today and you are seeing more and more women and ethnic minorities and they argued that at some point, it will translate into the press box.

While it is nice for them to think that, the reality looks bleak given how hard it is to break into the industry.

Journalism, like football and a lot of other industries across the country, is seen as an old boys network.

The discussion then moved on to the cup final itself, only after one of the writers made the point that it wasn’t brought up in the opening hour of the show.

As I sat there in my mum’s front room watching it, I knew what was going to be said before they even said it.

As always, they spoke about how the women’s game is amazing and that the record attendance on Saturday showed that people want to watch it.

While I partially agree with them, it is interesting that none of them bothered to actually attend the match in person.

They get to decide what matches they want to report on and if they truly believed that the women’s FA Cup final was important, why didn’t they go?

I went. I made sure that I cleared my schedule so I could be there. I made sure I didn’t schedule my son’s first birthday party on May 14 as I wanted to witness the final in person, I am that passionate about women’s football.

I do wish I could attend more games but it is difficult as they are played on a Sunday at 2pm.

But Beishon and I will be travelling to Wheatsheaf Park tomorrow night to cover Chelsea v Man City, a top-of-the-table clash between the two unbeaten sides in the league.

If that was the men’s game, I could guarantee that every top football writer would be there.

The top football writers will be at Wembley on Saturday to watch United take on Palace and, had last Saturday’s final been between Arsenal and Chelsea’s men’s side, they would have bothered to make the trip to Wembley instead of watching at home.

Actions speak louder than words and too often these so-called fans of the women’s game are tweeting how important it is for people to show their support without doing it themselves.

The media gets behind women’s football when England are doing well but how often do you see the Women’s Super League covered?

I admit, it could, and should, be covered a lot more in the Star than it is already but there is a conscious effort to fix that.

There are plans in place to have more women’s football in the pages over the summer.

I truly do believe this paper covers women’s sports in general more than the rest of the national daily newspapers and, as the sports editor, I want more and will keep working hard to bring the readers more.

There is a clear lack of diversity in the media and an even clearer lack of women’s sports on the back pages and taking to social media or talking about it over a coffee and croissant on a Sunday morning isn’t going to fix the problem.