Marc Skinner has given his Women’s FA Cup winner’s medal from last season to his elder daughter and he wants another, to give to her sister. When it comes to Sunday’s Wembley final against Chelsea, there can be no purer form of motivation for a father who, asked what he does in his spare time, points to family.
“I’ve not got a rockstar lifestyle,” the Manchester United manager says. “I’m just a dad who works hard when I’m here and then goes home. We don’t make men’s football wages so we don’t have nannies, we work and we try to balance life. I love spending time with my kids and with Laura [Bassett, his partner]. I go home and I bath the kids every night, I feed them, I take them to bed and just spend time with them. I genuinely get a real love, warmth and a recharge from that.
