Arsenal halt Man City, more uncertainty at Chelsea, and Chloe goes up a wobbly scaffold
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
You think you've seen it all before, perched on top of the wobbly commentary gantry at the Chigwell Construction Stadium... and then West Ham deliver those last 10 minutes against Brighton. Chloe and Rachel saw all the drama in the flesh and reflect on it all. What a relegation battle we've got on our hands!
But first off, there's the small matter of Arsenal beating the league leaders Manchester City to continue the Renéeformation and at long, long last just going direct with Olivia Smith up top. We also discuss Chelsea's less than convincing win against Spurs and what the departure of their influential head of football means for the club moving forward. And Madonna rocks up to a WSL game! But we're not Hung Up on it...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Upfront. I'm Clay Morgan. And I'm Rachel Sullivan. Another weekend of exciting action at the top and the bottom of the WSL. Arsenal upset the league leaders Manchester City. There was a much needed win for Chelsea in the battle for Champions League football, plus a contract extension for Sonia |
| 0:21.7 | Bombastore. Liverpool also got a massive win, but nobody got three points in more dramatic |
| 0:26.7 | fashion than West Ham. What a game. And Everton have sacked Brian Sorenson. Why and why now? |
| 0:38.7 | But before we get stuck into all of the drama at the top and the bottom of the table rage, |
| 0:43.5 | what is your moment of the weekend? |
| 0:46.2 | We are going to get into this game, but I really enjoyed. |
| 0:50.3 | Both of us were working this game in different fashions but actually kind of together. |
| 0:55.2 | So I was your floor manager slash reporter on the day. |
| 0:58.1 | I was feeding information, yeah, information into the studio from pitchside, from between the dugouts. |
| 1:04.1 | You were in my ears as co-coms, which was lovely. |
| 1:07.1 | And you then told me or the people listening who the player of the match was and then I went and got to interview and present the player of the match with the trophy. |
| 1:15.7 | So it was very nice having a little working relationship come off the pod and onto the pitch. |
| 1:20.2 | Wasn't it lovely me? It feels like we don't get enough time together. So moments like that really kind of like, you know, bring us further together as a unit. |
| 1:47.7 | What I really loved about that particular moment actually, it was the fact that I'd chosen Vivianne S.A. before she obviously went on to go and score the winner. And I, the perfection, because at that point, they were losing. So I'd chosen a player from the losing side because I was like she'd been the spiciest player for, you know, from both sides, all players and I was like she absolutely deserves it like she's been that the work rate's phenomenon will definitely go into it but then she pops up and scores Westhouse winning |
| 1:52.6 | goal and I was like I've never felt for validated my entire life so yeah that was also a bit of a |
| 1:57.1 | moment of the weekend for me I was delighted because I was chatting to the match manager and I was like, I feel like currently at 60 odd minutes, it's kind of difficult to pick who a player of the match is going to be. It's not often a player on the losing team. More often than not, they go with the goal scorer, especially if the game is a little bit like, meh. So I thought, okay okay i'm going to have another week where i have to |
| 2:18.4 | drag poor maisie simons into the postmatch interview to help help me interview kiko seka and then make her give her the player of the match award and the last time i did that was against london city and she's like i've had to do this numerous times now this season and i've not gotten the player of the match award but I have to be the one giving it to Kiko Sakeet. |
| 2:34.4 | And I was like, man, if I had to do that again this week, I'm going to feel so bad. |
| 2:37.7 | But no, you can't... numerous times now this season and I've not gotten the player of the match award but I have to be the one giving it to Kiko Sakeet and I was like man if I had to do that again this week I'm going |
| 2:36.8 | to feel so bad but no you came in and saved me you're so so welcome I told you I'll always have |
| 2:41.5 | your back um apart from that my other moment of the weekend was I was privileged enough to host the |
| 2:48.0 | football versus homophobia Awards on Friday night with |
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