Manchester United boss Marc Skinner has emphasised he wants the team to put on an eye-catching display in Sunday’s historic Women’s Super League clash with Everton at Old Trafford.
The match will be a first for United’s women’s side at the ground in front of fans, a year on from them making their bow there with no crowd in attendance due to coronavirus restrictions as they beat West Ham 2-0.
Skinner told a press conference on Wednesday: “It is a special stadium, without a doubt. It just feels like it has this wonderful history, and you can feel it, you can absorb it. There’s some romanticism left in football where you can still feel these things.
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“It’ll be exciting to play in this wonderful stadium in front of our home fans. Hopefully it’s the right effect where it spurs us on to exact every bit of energy from our players.
“I want to put on a performance on Sunday that shows everybody that we can, in the future, fill this stadium for our women’s team as well as our men’s team.
“The players absolutely deserve this and the club have been wonderful in terms of their vision for what we’re trying to achieve here. Let’s make it a really good event.
“We have to put on experiences that people want to come back to feel and be a part of.”
The 39-year-old former Birmingham and Orlando Pride boss, who took charge of United last summer, added: “Rest assured, my job will not be complete by just winning things, and titles and so on – my job is to leave women’s sport in a better place.
“That’s my job. I feel that engrossed. I’ve given a lot of years to it, it’s my life, it’s my passion.
“I want to leave this game where I know that we are attracting the fans that the men’s game can attract. That would be a really good way to bow out.”
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