Rewind one year, to when Manchester City were top of the Women’s Super League and Manchester United were trundling towards a fifth-placed finish, at a time when Marc Skinner’s contract was soon ending. If you were told then that one of the Manchester women’s teams would have changed their manager by the time a derby came around in April 2025, very few people would have predicted it to be City.
Since then, Skinner has signed new contracts twice while Gareth Taylor was sacked in March and it is Manchester City who find themselves languishing seven points adrift of the European places. These two rivals on seemingly opposite trajectories meet on Sunday in a Women’s FA Cup semi-final.
