After Savy King collapsed, why wasn’t Angel City’s match cancelled?
Full Time with Meg Linehan: A show about women's soccer
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4.8 • 756 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 24 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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| 0:52.0 | Coming up on today's show, I'll talk to the great Meg Linaan about Friday's scary moment |
| 0:57.0 | when Angel City defender Savvy King collapsed at BMO Stadium. |
| 1:01.6 | And we'll be getting into what happened that night, why the league decided not to postpone the match, |
| 1:06.9 | and what comes next. |
| 1:08.7 | After that, I'll run you through the best weekends and WSL action |
| 1:12.3 | and then we'll head over to the WSL |
| 1:14.3 | to talk Chelsea completing the first ever |
| 1:16.7 | invincible season in the English Women's Super League |
| 1:19.4 | and we'll try to answer the question, |
| 1:21.1 | is this the best Chelsea team of all time? |
| 1:24.0 | And then we'll close out with my moment of the week. |
| 1:26.2 | Let's get into it. |
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