606 Savage Social: Fara Williams MBE
606
BBC
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
England’s most capped player and current Reading midfielder, Fara Williams, joins Robbie Savage to answer your questions about her incredible story.
Fara talks about her early years playing in ‘the cage’ on her estate in South London, being homeless while in the England youth team, appearances in three World Cups and being awarded an MBE.
One of the greatest players to grace the women's game with Chelsea, Charlton, Everton, Liverpool and Arsenal earning 172 caps for the Lionesses, the midfielder has a story like no other in football.
606 Savage Social is a Shooting Shark Production for BBC 5 Live.
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| 0:45.0 | Hi everyone, it's Roby Sammett here here thanks for listening we're recording these |
| 0:54.2 | podcast from my homes during the lockdown you might hear the occasional child in the |
| 0:58.6 | background I'm sat home and still lucky enough that a lot of my former teammates |
| 1:03.5 | still talk to me so I'm going to get them on the line and put your questions to them. |
| 1:12.2 | The play I'm speaking to today is play for Chelsea, Chalton, Everton, Liverpool, Arcelain is currently at ready. |
| 1:20.0 | She played at 3 World Cup's 4 euros and represented great grit of the 2012 Olympics. |
| 1:25.7 | She played 172 times for the lionesses, scoring 40 goals and is England's football most cap player. |
| 1:34.0 | There aren't many in the game with that kind of sea view. |
| 1:38.0 | The pressure is on Faroe Williams. |
| 1:41.0 | She is the most experienced player in the England team. |
| 1:44.5 | Fingers crossed all round as she comes up to strike the ball on her right foot. |
| 1:49.3 | And it's into the corner of the net and England are level. It's England won Japan won in the World Cup |
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