casey stoney has had to build this squad from scratch.d and a good statement of what the club wants to do. we've picked up for names starting with alex greenwood formerly of liverpool. she's one of seven players they have taken from liverpool. she's an england player, a left back and has also been named captain of the side which she has described as a real honour. someone else they've taken from liverpool, siobhan chamberlain. one of the best goalkeepers. at 34 she will bring some much—needed experience. it's quite a young side with the average age 20 one. she is part of the world cup squad in 2050. you would think with the world cup next year she would have her rise on that as well. playing in the second tier, it's interesting to see if the likes of greenwood and chamberlain can keep their place. phil neville says it's not ideal players dropping down but it wouldn't rule them out from being selected. i'm not sure how liverpool fa ns selected. i'm not sure how liverpool fans will be filling, because another player who has come down the 62

former england defender casey stoney has been busy building manchester united's first women's squad fored this friday. their manager has been speaking to our football reporterjo currie about why now is the right time and how it can change the face of the women's game. having been here now and seem what we are trying to grow it is not about running before we can walk, it is about doing things properly, growing the team, the infrastructure, making sure we get things right. and having been prescribed six weeks i know they do things properly. long term we want to be successful and that means champions league football. it has been six weeks of manic mileage for me, driving up and down the country. we've hand—picked the players we wanted. i know that they will be ambitious, ideally we would love to go ambitious, ideally we would love to 9° up ambitious, ideally we would love to go up in the first year but so many other teams want to do that and they're not going to roll over. the first question i had in thejob, is why now. the club did not feel they have the infrastructure to support the wome