If only the Continental Cup could produce encounters like this more often. It is a tournament which is often synonymous with drab matches which act as little more than hurdles for teams to jump over to return to league football, yet Sunday’s final showed what this cup could have the capacity to do.
Chelsea, and particularly Arsenal, approached it with respect, entertaining the 19,010-strong crowd to an afternoon of football which wouldn’t have looked out of place at the climax of the Women’s Super League.
