Arsenal’s historic win at Stamford Bridge, late relegation drama and a cuppa with Alexia

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

Stak Production

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

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

More title race twists and turns in the WSL! Manchester City extended their lead at the top - despite a great performance from London City - while Rachel was dancing along to a brass band’s rendition of the Spice Girls and Chloe bumping into a two-time Ballon d’Or winner over a coffee. Just your usual afternoon at Bromley!

Elsewhere, Arsenal impressed in their controlling win over Chelsea, Liverpool and West Ham got some vital points and we look ahead to the Champions Cup - sparkly trophies and mild controversy included!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Up Front. I'm Chloe Morgan. And I'm Rachel Sullivan. Will the WSL ever stop delivering drama? Never! I've still got a massive win against Chelsea at Stanford Bridge to put a major dampener on the blues title hopes. What a performance by Meido!
0:23.7	There was also lots of action at the other end of the table,
0:26.2	with West Ham seeing off Leicester and Liverpool waiting until the very last seconds of the game
0:31.1	to secure their first WSL win of the season.
0:33.8	And Garretail's Taylor's smile was something to behold.
0:36.9	Finally, it's Champions Cup time for Arsenal and there's lots of money up for grabs.
0:52.2	That's not a prize thing that we're doing.
0:53.8	There's just obviously a lot of money in the Champions Cup competition.
0:57.4	Moments of the weekend, Rach.
0:59.6	There's so much to choose from.
1:02.3	I think I'm going to give it to pray Godfrey's goal.
1:06.9	Yeah.
1:07.2	Just purely because when I watched her back,
1:09.4	I thought she was going to step in and whip it in with her left foot. And she didn't. She went for like the hardest possible shot and scored. It was an absolute rocket. It was ridiculous. I felt sorry for Yamashita. I was kind of talking. I was doing co-coms for the game and I was talking about the pace and the speed at which that goal went in. yeah, it was one of those ones that was kind of in front of you and in your kind of remit and sphere
1:30.4	of being able to save it, but the pace of it and how close it is to goal just make it absolutely impossible. There's nothing you can do. Yeah, that was a great goal. And again, from like one of like the WSL's rising young, ridiculously young stars.
1:48.1	My moment of the weekend, I, as I said, was doing co-coms.
1:53.6	I never in my lifetime thought that I would be saying these words live on radio.
1:56.5	I've just bumped into Alexei Puteuze at Bromley.
1:58.3	At Bromley.
2:05.2	It was such a surprise going to grab a questionable cup of coffee from the from the from the urn um and then yeah from the urn um and then looking around just we delve into that
2:10.9	the urn sorry i think urn i think like the tea earn dead body ashes oh right okay a tea earn you've heard of a tea end never in my life god do not 40, I think... Like a tea urn? Dead body ashes. Oh, right, okay.
2:18.0	A tea, you've heard of a TN?
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