Had Chelsea not ended the Women’s Super League (WSL) season unbeaten, captain Millie Bright would have been livid. The defender said so to her team-mates and on her podcast. She was unequivocal.
“You wouldn’t catch me at the after party. Winning the league or not, that would’ve completed ruined my season if we’d lost,” she said on Daly Brightness, referring to the final game of the season against Liverpool, when history rested on that result at Stamford Bridge.
Maybe for some Bright’s comments come across as over the top. But for this Chelsea side they’re not. WSL winners with an ‘invincible’ record and a league record 60 points — 18 of which arrived against supposed title rivals Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United — a League Cup trophy won and a trip to Wembley for the FA Cup final coming this Sunday, where victory would secure a domestic treble.
It’s dominance incarnate. But that this most ruthless edition of Chelsea’s six successive years of WSL superiority has come under the supervision of a new head coach, Sonia Bompastor, following the end of the 12-year Emma Hayes era, is perhaps most impressive of all.
Bompastor, a former France international of Portuguese descent, arrived in London last summer with winning in her veins. The only…
