Arsenal’s FA Cup hoodoo, the WSL2 can’t stop cooking and England vs Spain... again!

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

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Girls Football, Womens World Cup, Chloe Kelly, Lionesses, Nwsl, Football, Womens Football, England Womens, Keira Walsh, Womens England Football, Sports, Leah Williamson, Soccer, Womens Sports, Womens Soccer, Female Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Fresh from their two-legged triumph at Stamford Bridge in the Champions League, Arsenal kept up their poor FA Cup form with a 2-0 defeat against Brighton. Chloe and Rachel praise Brighton and ask just why Arsenal can’t get the consistency to fight on multiple fronts.

Elsewhere, it’s high time we take a closer look at the title race in WSL2 because it is HOT! We take you through all the permutations and Chloe explains just what it’s like to start planning ahead for the top-flight as a player when you’re still not sure about your future. Plus, an England vs Spain preview! And we promise we haven’t just copy pasted the last one.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Up Front. I'm Clay Morgan and I'm Regula Sullivan. A shock for Arsenal in the
0:09.3	FA Cup this weekend. But Chelsea pulled through lots to get stuck into there. The Cup was also a
0:15.3	chance to get a look at the current top two in the WSL2, Birmingham City and Charlton Athletic. How
0:20.5	did they fare against the top
0:21.9	division opposition than they faced? And finally, we look ahead to the return of the lionesses
0:26.6	who will be facing, you guessed it.
0:29.3	Hola.
0:29.8	Spain again.
0:34.3	It's a mix-max, a hodgepodge of different games and different tournaments popping up over the next few weeks Which makes it quite exciting Multiple hats have to be Yeah, you've got WSL1 You've got WSL2 You've got Champions League You've got Champions League You've got Champions League And yeah I think it's nice to wear those multiple different hats At the same time and just forget what competition everyone's in. It's like a...
0:54.7	Sometimes you're like, wait, who's that?
0:56.1	Who do they play for again?
0:57.1	Yeah, it's like a women's football stew, if you will.
1:01.4	Loads of different vegetables, loads of different meats.
1:03.4	Don't know what's going to come out, but there's going to be something beautiful.
1:05.6	There's always, there's always shurito involved because Spain are always bloody there. Oh no. That's a really nice analogy. Thank you. Okay, before we try and decipher what's been going on over the last week, what's your moment of the weekend, Rach? I'm going to go with Zara Shaw. Oh, scoring that all-important goal. Took the words right out of my mouth, you. Apologies for Liverpool, but I had to sit through that game, so I'm taking it.
1:29.7	It was 120 minutes of my life, I won't get back.
1:33.0	And you're not getting on?
1:34.3	That moment, yeah, my minutes are very valuable right now.
1:37.4	That moment was a special one because she has played 45 minutes for Liverpool.
1:43.6	They're under 21s since making her return from her ACL injury. Obviously, young, 18-year-old, Academy product, you know, all of that kind of thing. There's so many like little fairy tale moments. And they're the kind of F.A. Cup moments that we love. So, yeah, I thought that when she came on late in the game, thought I was going to go to penalties.
2:01.3	It was one of those like the football gods knew we had Easter Sunday dinner with family. So they were like, you know what? We're going to go to extra time. But then Zara Shaw came on and saved the day. It wasn't a pretty goal. We don't need to look back to the actual goal. I mean, the goal summed up the game generally. But yeah, it was lovely because she got her flowers then from the travelling Liverpool fans.
2:19.7	It was very nice.
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