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By Jamie Spencer At Wembley Stadium on Sunday afternoon, Manchester United or Tottenham Hotspur will lift the Women’s FA Cup for the first time. Whoever wins, one team will make history for themselves. But this final also means a lot for the competitive status of the wider women’s game in England. The FA Cup trophy has been exclusively the domain of Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City for more than a decade. The last club outside the WSL’s established ‘big three’ to get their hands on it was Birmingham in 2012, beating a pre-Emma Hayes Chelsea on penalties. Prior to the that Arsenal appeared …

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