As the John Denver song Take Me Home, Country Roads rang around Leigh Sports Village, after a seventh league victory in a row for a team second in the table, the most reliable source of positivity at Manchester United right now is surely their women’s team.
This week marks the first anniversary of the formal completion of Ineos’s acquisition and at the latest home victory for the women’s team the jury was still out among fans regarding Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s impact on the Women’s Super League side. The generally optimistic mood, though, is somewhat at odds with the gloomy feel across much of the rest of the club amid the latest reports of a further 200 job losses.
