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Full Time: A show about women's soccer

After Savy King collapsed, why wasn’t Angel City’s match cancelled?

Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The Athletic

Sports, Nwsl, Wsl, News, Women's Soccer, Sports News, Soccer

4.8808 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by Meg Linehan to talk about Friday night's shocking medical emergency in the NWSL. After Angel City defender Savy King collapsed in the 74th minute, why wasn't the match cancelled? How were decisions made on Friday night? What communication was made with the players? And, what can the NWSL learn from this?


Jillian then goes over the top stories Matchweek 8 of the NWSL season, including her moment of the weekend. The show closes out with Jillian and Producer Theo discussing Chelsea's undefeated season in the English Women's Super League. Is this the best Chelsea team ever? And can anyone stop them from doing it again next season?

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Articles mentioned on the show:

NWSL must learn from its decision to continue play after Angel City’s Savy King collapsed

After Savy King’s on-field collapse, why wasn’t Angel City’s match cancelled?

This WSL season wasn’t a classic – it’s time to make the league more exciting

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HOST: Jillian Sakovits

GUEST: Meg Linehan

PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes

VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. I'm Jillian Sackavits and welcome to full-time review. It is presented by

0:18.1

Amazon business. Coming up on today's show, I'll talk to the great Meg Linahan about Friday's scary moment

0:24.5

when Angel City defender Savvy King collapsed at BMO Stadium.

0:29.2

And we'll be getting into what happened that night, why the league decided not to postpone the match, and what comes next.

0:36.3

After that, I'll run you through the best weekends and WSL action, and then we'll head over to the WSL

0:41.8

to talk Chelsea completing the first ever invincible season in the English Women's Super League,

0:46.9

and we'll try to answer the question, is this the best Chelsea team of all time?

0:51.6

And then we'll close out with my moment of the week.

0:53.8

Let's get into it.

1:03.9

I'm joined now by Meg Linnehan. Hi, Meg. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm good.

1:09.3

Thank you. Thanks for being here. This is a really

1:11.2

important talk to dive into with you. You and Asla have been covering the story for the athletic,

1:16.8

putting together a detailed report about Friday's medical event at BMO Stadium. So, Meg, can you

1:22.8

start us at the beginning and walk us through what happened in Los Angeles and Angel City

1:28.2

versus the Royals. Yeah, I mean, the short, short version is Savvy King. I mean, looked

1:35.2

really fine throughout the game. Seventy-fourth minute suddenly goes down, like is in the middle

1:40.7

of a play too, had passed the ball. Someone tries to pass the ball back to her,

1:49.3

and she's trying to wave it off. She sits down on the field, and it's very clear, very quickly, that there is a medical situation happening. Game is stopped. She eventually is transported

1:54.7

off of the field via a stretcher, immediately put into an ambulance and taken to a hospital.

2:00.4

Officially, as of Monday morning, this has only been defined still as a medical event.

2:04.8

We don't really have clarity as to what happened.

2:07.5

Obviously, there are privacy considerations here that's been one of the real themes of this.

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