With rolling substitutes, no offsides and 15-minute halves, the seven-a-side format is designed to bring out creativity.<\/p>\n
Staff members and officials get involved in the fun too – Tottenham boss Martin Ho wore a fluffy blue cowboy hat, while London City Lionesses manager Eder Maestre celebrated with Nikita Parris using a special handshake.<\/p>\n
One of the most elaborate walkouts involved Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor as she was carried out by her team for the semi-finals and flipped to the ground. <\/p>\n
“I enjoyed it. It came from the players. I’m someone who is usually quiet and I don’t want to get too involved but that was a good opportunity,” said Bompastor. <\/p>\n
“We only practised it a little bit in the locker room. I made a joke that the players who didn’t get enough minutes would have the opportunity to drop me!”<\/p>\n
Bompastor borrowed a camera off a nearby photographer and pretended to film the players before their final, while Manchester United boss Marc Skinner came out dressed in a white dressing gown and sunglasses to a guard of honour.<\/p>\n
Officials stole the show as they pretended to be wheelbarrows, led a rendition of ‘Sweet Caroline’ and performed a penalty shootout before kicking off matches.<\/p>\n
Everton spent time before their 5-2 semi-final defeat by Manchester United to design a fake coffin which turned out to be a black suitcase with defender Hannah Blundell hidden inside during the walkout.<\/p>\n
Toffees striker Katja Snoeijs also pretended to give birth as her team-mates (the midwives) delivered a football instead of a baby. It had pictures on of the injured players who could not compete.<\/p>\n
Chelsea’s players pretended to be tenpin bowling, defender Ellie Carpenter and midfielder Wieke Kaptein did the worm and Aston Villa teenager Rachel Maltby backflipped.<\/p>\n
On the pitch, Chelsea striker Aggie Beever-Jones shone with a rabona assist for Erin Cuthbert and United’s Melvine Malard celebrated by pretending to need CPR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With rolling substitutes, no offsides and 15-minute halves, the seven-a-side format is designed to bring out creativity. Staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-612338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}