Laura Hunter

6 days ago | skysports.com | Laura Hunter

The Women's Super League title might be Chelsea's again, but there were plenty more stories that contributed to an enthralling 2024-25 season. From signings to sackings, Sky Sports analyses the best of them. The season of sackings. Five managers were swapped out as the number of long-serving coaches in the division dwindled. March was the most extraordinary month, containing three sackings in quick succession.

1 week ago | skysports.com | Laura Hunter

Luton have become only the fourth team to suffer back-to-back relegations from the Premier League all the way to League One after a 5-3 defeat at West Brom. A three-match winning run had lifted the Hatters temporarily out of the Championship's bottom three heading into Saturday's trip to the Hawthorns, needing only to match or better Hull City's result at Portsmouth to remain in the second tier.

1 week ago | skysports.com | Laura Hunter

Shortly after 4pm on Sunday afternoon Lauren Hemp made her entrance onto a football pitch for the first time in 170 days. By 4.10pm she had provided the assist for Jess Park to score Manchester City's decider in a crucial 1-0 win over Leicester, as if she had never left. Hemp's injury return has been a long road.

2 weeks ago | skysports.com | Laura Hunter

Sonia Bompastor was as close as it comes to a ready-made replacement for Emma Hayes. Stepping into Hayes' shoes was the equivalent of out the frying pan into the fire. Chelsea and Lyon are synonymous in that way. Pressure and expectation as respective serial champions are constant bedfellows. And yet the Women's Super League is a notoriously tough hunting ground for new coaches. No manager in the competition's history has ever won it in their first season.

2 weeks ago | skysports.com | Laura Hunter

They say good things come to those who wait. Patience and perseverance are two principles Sonia Bompastor values after taking the time to learn the art of coaching in Lyon's academy system before taking on the first team, and eventually accepting a carefully selected opportunity to manage in the Women's Super League. But neither have been needed during her first year in charge of Chelsea. This season has been an exhibition of inevitability from the reigning champions.