Manchester United are hoping to reach the Women’s FA Cup semi-finals for the first time, but a last eight meeting against Women’s Championship side Lewes stands in front of them.
Lewes are trailblazers within the women’s game. The east Sussex club famously operates both it men’s and women’s team on equal budgets and penned an open letter to women’s football review chair Karen Carney this week on the subject of equal prize money in the FA Cup – the fund in the women’s competition this season is £3m, while for the men it totals nearly £20m.
United, having been knocked off the top of the WSL…
