By Jake Humphrey BBC Sport presenter

I am sitting in the media centre in the bowels of the ageing Chengdu stadium with a very large grin across my face - England are in the quarter-finals of the Women's World Cup.

Now they're through I can write about our girls as having achieved something great. Hope Powell's team were in a tricky position going into this match.

A defeat and they were home, and would have meant under-achievement for our talented squad.

People will now look upon this exciting generation of English ladies as having been successful.

I was really chuffed for Jill Scott to get a goal. She's been a real star this tournament

It's all very exciting about what happens next. We've now got three cup finals in a row and if the women win each of them, they'll be world champions. Sounds good eh?

Before the match I was disappointed when I entered the stadium. I have a real dislike of grounds with running tracks, it kills the atmosphere and wherever you sit you feel very detached from the action.

Football stadiums should be built for football alone. Claustrophobic, imposing, and steep, a la Dortmund or Highbury. The Chengdu ground is the opposite.

As the England fans did their best to create an atmosphere, the girls did what was needed on the pitch, thanks to a helping hand from our South American friends.

I was really chuffed for Jill Scott to get a goal. She's been a real star this tournament since coming on in the first match.

Kelly Smith gets the headlines thanks to Jill's selfless hard work. Kelly was quite overwhelmed when we chatted after the game, and her eyes lit up when I mentioned possibly facing America next.

She played in the States and would no doubt relish knocking them out!

Our Chinese cousins were struggling with the technical side of things. Colin, our talented sound engineer, was hard at work in the stands, sweating in the heat as kick-off approached.

A few Chinese people refer to him as Harry Potter (he wears glasses!) and he certainly worked his magic here.

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Commentator Guy Mowbray may not have sounded crystal clear for the first part of the game but if it wasn't for Colin's hard work you wouldn't have heard him at all.

We also had problems with flashing lights when I interviewed Kelly Smith post-match.

It's frustrating when things go wrong - we all work so hard to bring you close to the action with a whole team out here travelling the Orient. I'm sure you still enjoyed what was a brilliant match.

I also spoke to Hope Powell. It is worth mentioning how well she has done. She played as England made it to the World Cup quarters in 1995, and now she taken her country there as manager - which she said is even sweeter.

She has done great things for women's football and deserves huge credit.

Away from the football, Chengdu is a remarkable place, and we've seen lots of it - mainly because our driver, who comes from here, has absolutely NO idea where he is going most of the time.

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Last night we went out for some Chinese food and one of the translators, a friendly girl called Yan from Shanghai was in charge of ordering.

After sitting down, our merry chat was soon suspended by loud choking noises. I turned expecting to see Jacqui Oatley breathing in some noodles, but instead I saw a very red face as she fanned her mouth.

Before long, I was also holding my throat and glugging ice cold beer to quell the flames. And the rest of the table soon followed.

Yan very sweetly pronounced: "The Sichuan food is very hot, no?" She wasn't joking. Red chillies were everywhere.

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Then after tucking into tender strips of meat and vegetables in a wok, Yan's sweet eyes looked around the table as she announced: "You seem to like the donkey meat."

Unbelievable. Two weeks of checking and rechecking menus we let our guard down once and poor old Eeyore had been gobbled up and washed down.

Before the England match we went to the Chengdu Blades training complex.

They're a team 90% owned by Sheffield United. The set-up was remarkable with all the players living in digs at a huge retreat that used to be owned by the Communist Party.

Keep your eyes peeled for the piece - it gives a great insight into the globalisation of football and the lengths the clubs are having to go to to find the next pool of untapped footballing talent.

We're off to Shanghai in the morning and we've heard there's a typhoon heading for the city. I hope we're soon safely tucked up in our hotel rooms.

BBC One will show the England quarter-final live on Saturday at 1245 BST. Tune in.