The girls in green gunning for glory on Wembley stage

There will be a crowd in excess of 40,000 at Wembley today to see Arsenal and Chelsea contest the 2018 Women’s FA Cup final, writes Liam Mackey.

It’s an attendance which will comfortably break the record set at last year’s final when 35,271 watched a Manchester City side, which contained Irish international Megan Campbell, beat Birmingham 4-1.

Previous years had occasionally seen big crowds turn up for the showpiece game, including 24,582 at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground in 2008, but attendances then began to fall away, hitting a low of under 5,000 at Doncaster’s Deepmoat Stadium just five years ago for a game which saw Arsenal beat Bristol Academy 3-0.