A financial turning point for women's football? The Lionesses reach the WC final
The News Agents
Global
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
England's women's football team reach the World Cup final, beating the hosts Australia. But with the highest paid footballer in the equivalent of the Premier League paid less in a year than some male players get in a week, will this prove a watershed moment in attempts by many to push for greater financial parity? We speak to Kieran Maguire, football economist.
And back in the world of Westminster - what does falling inflation mean? A governmental success in one of their key targets, or is this the calm before the storm with wages and public sector - both inherently inflationary - rising. We speak to editor of Red Box, Lara Spirit.
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| 0:14.3 | Absolutely sublime. |
| 0:17.8 | A scare at one end. |
| 0:20.2 | A clinical finish at the other. |
| 0:22.2 | And England are heading for the World Cup final. |
| 0:27.0 | Was it good? |
| 0:28.3 | It was bloody great. |
| 0:30.2 | They played fantastically. |
| 0:31.9 | It was a great semi-final. |
| 0:33.8 | The Australians gave it everything. |
| 0:36.0 | And England came out on top. |
| 0:39.0 | And I don't know what you're doing on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock but I have booked my place on the sofa and I ain't moving until |
| 0:46.3 | it is done. Women's football has been talked about for years but it really does feel that this |
| 0:53.5 | is a turning point but how much of a turning point? |
| 0:57.6 | That's what we're going to be discussing on today's podcast. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:05.4 | The news agents. It's John. And later in the podcast, we're going to be talking about inflation, the economy, |
| 1:14.4 | whether the Tories should be on a victory lap, or whether that is still somewhat premature. |
| 1:20.6 | But on the subject of victory laps, the lionesses can certainly be doing that, |
| 1:25.9 | because that 3-1 victory over Australia in a lively |
| 1:30.6 | Sydney cauldron was absolutely fantastic. We're going to have a special match report from there in |
| 1:36.9 | just a moment. But there's also something that we want to discuss as well about women's football |
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