The Women’s Super League is a simple game: 12 teams play each other twice over nine months and Chelsea lift the title at the end of it. Manchester United ran them close but, despite this final-day victory at Liverpool, the Blues won their fourth championship in a row.
The permutations were against United and they did not look like a side who believed they would be able to pull off a Hollywood ending on a sunny afternoon in Birkenhead, despite Lucía García’s 72nd-minute winner.
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