Manchester United are finally going to form a professional women’s team, they announced last night. The club have been criticised for falling behind Premier League rivals such as Manchester City and Arsenal, who established women’s teams more than 20 years ago. At present, United have a youth set-up in which girls can play until the age of 17, but there is no senior team into which they can graduate. United had insisted for some time that they would not form a women’s team for the sake of following the path of other top-flight clubsNow, after conducting months of research, they have decided to create a senior women’s team that will — subject to clearance — compete in the second tier of the Women’s Super League (WSL).…

Source: The Times March 22, 2018 00:11 UTC