If there was one thing to rival the level of Sam Kerr’s technique and composure under pressure, it was perhaps her certainty. The striker had predicted she would score a “worldie” to help seal Chelsea’s third consecutive Women’s Super League title, and by the time it was all wrapped up she had scored two. After the first, which brought Chelsea level at 2-2 after they had trailed Manchester United on the final day of the season, she ran over to manager Emma Hayes. “Today is our destiny,” she told her.
“Never in my career have I seen that,” Hayes said afterwards. What followed was inevitable and Kerr knew it, Chelsea’s opponents knew it, and ahead of the Women’s FA Cup final on Sunday it is Manchester City’s challenge to overturn it. They are tasked with bringing down this winning machine, which is itself so certain of its place at the top of English football.
