Arsenal's reshuffle, Chelsea are back with a vengeance, and we hear about the ultimate minnow in this year's FA Cup!
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Karen Carney might have been back from Strictly, but there weren't many quick-steps on the pitch at the Emirates on Saturday.
Chloe and Rachel are reunited in the studio to look back on the first weekend of 2026 in the WSL, which had some familiar stories and one very controversial one involving Phallon Tullis-Joyce. Chloe gives a goalkeeper's perspective on time-wasting...
Elsewhere, it's more pain for West Ham as we take a closer look at a catalogue of errors – and we get all excited for the FA Cup by speaking to one of the heroes in the 4th round this weekend, York City's Niamh Dooly! Will we invite ourselves on the possible post-match team night out? You bet we will.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Up Front. I'm Chloe Morgan. And I'm Rachel Sullivan. It was a very mixed bag in the WSL this weekend. Some teams couldn't stop finding the back of the net and others could have gone all day without scoring absolutely nothing. Arsenal and United dented each other's title hopes at the Emirates, leaving the gunners 10 points off Leaders Man City Chelsea on the other hand knocked five past West Ham to give a warm WSL welcome to new manager Riserque Rorino finally we look ahead to the masses of FA Cup games coming up this week and speak to York City midfielder at Neve Doody, about their upcoming fixture with fellow fourth tier side Chatham Town. |
| 0:45.6 | Rachel, welcome back to the studio. |
| 0:47.8 | It's nice to be back, isn't it? |
| 0:48.8 | How does it feel coming back from your snow palace? |
| 0:52.3 | Honestly, a bit shit, yeah, the weather outside is frightful. |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah, nice. And I'd rather be in a cabin in the snow, but here we are. With you, at least you're making it brighter. I was going to say, like your third wheel, trusty third wheel, is back in the booth again. Yay. Yay. Yeah. The enthusiasm is palpable. How are we doing on the old year's resolutions? have we made any progress on any of them? |
| 2:18.4 | What were your personal ones and where are we at two weeks into Jan? You told me about three minutes ago you're going to ask me this question. And I have yet to come up with Annie. I think maybe a bit more, make a bit more time for like personal care. You know, yeah, for me. All right. You know, read a book every now and then. Maybe, and then maybe you know do a facial you know those kind of vibes once or twice in the year um so yeah i think you're gonna try and do a bit more of that because by the end of the year i feel i was haggard man so we all were that's gonna be maybe one of them what about you i aged quite quickly last season um uh i've been trying to get on like a bit more of hype. I'm not going to hire rocks. I'm not that person. It's just never going to be me. That's a lot. It's a lot of stuff. I don't have time for the stuff. And also, like, I just don't fancy, like, being in a metal container, like, sweating with other 3,000 other people and having my photograph taken. No. It's just better ways. Yeah. And then also I'm bringing lunches to work now that I make at home and stop spending an absolute fortune on, yeah, market lunches, which I actually do love. You might be able to afford a house now. Oh, Christ. Because isn't that like all you have to do is just stop like buying coffee is an avocado. |
| 2:34.6 | Yeah, match a tea is an avocado on toast. And you can buy a house within six months. You should be fine. Six hundred two years. Yeah, yeah. So yeah. I'll be on my fourth property by December and that's the plan for me going forward. What fitness, by the way. Is there anything in particular? I'm back to gym box. A big plug for gym box there if you're listening in Yeah, back to the routine |
| 2:36.5 | Doing like little like cross-fitty classes is there anything in particular? I'm back to Gymbox. A big plug for Gymbox there if you're listening in. |
| 2:35.4 | Yeah, back to the routine, doing like little like cross-fitty classes and bike and beats is the one that I'm really enjoying. Love that. Spinning sessions at the moment. Very nice. Although some of the spinning sessions are quite intense. Like you get into like the, and they've got like lights and the instructor. And then you come off the saddle, don't you? |
| 2:49.0 | And you start like, oh yeah. |
| 2:50.0 | And it's, yeah, it's intense. |
| 2:51.1 | It's a lot. |
| 2:51.6 | And then, like, the instructor, |
| 2:52.8 | the bikes have, like, little lights at the front. |
| 2:54.2 | And so the saddle, don't you? And you start like, yeah. Yeah, it's intense. It's a lot. And then like the instructor, the bikes have like little lights |
| 2:53.7 | at the front. And so the instructor can see like whether you're operating in the right zone or not, |
| 2:57.8 | which is it cools you out a little bit. And there was one that went to over Christmas and it was just |
| 3:01.5 | like playing like Christmas beats. And I thought it's going to be like Mariah Carey and that kind of thing. And it was like, Santa's a DJ, San as a DJ, San as a DJ. |
| 3:08.1 | It was like quite intense. Fuck the hell. Well, you've, well done, you've put me off trying that. Anyway, let's get stuck into the moments of the weekend then. What are you going for? I think I'm just going to give it to Cigna Gop's debut. Lovely. She paid about 60 minutes for Tottenham. looked like she'd been there years |
| 3:24.6 | and Martin Ho told me afterwards |
| 3:26.2 | that that was only her |
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