At The Match: Arsenal end Chelsea's UWCL Dreams

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On a historic night for Chelsea, Rach heads down to Stamford Bridge to do something historic herself: get a Chelsea and an Arsenal fan to talk to each other!

Join us as Rach sits down with members of both Chelsea Women Supporters Group and Arsenal Women Supporters Club. We also chat with AWSC's chair, Farah Chowdhury, and bring you the electric atmosphere at the Bridge from pitchside. Finally, Rach sits down with the one and only Sophie Downey to look back on a breathless 90 minutes and what it means for both clubs.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Upfront and tonight we are heading to Stamford Bridge for one of the biggest games of the season.
0:08.0	It's red versus blue. It's the champions of England versus the champions of Europe.
0:12.0	The team that would love to win the Champions League versus the team that want to do it all over again.
0:17.0	It's North London versus West London. It's Chelsea versus Arsenal.
0:39.9	Tonight, we want to do something a bit different. Usually we get to speak to one of the fan, one fan base at a time.
0:46.4	But for a rivalry like this, you've really got to speak to both fan bases at the same time to get the full picture.
0:48.3	And let's hope they're nice to each other.
0:54.3	So we're going to head to the Wallam Green pub next to Stamford Bridge to meet the Chelsea Women Supporters Group.
0:58.3	Rosie is going to be joining us and we're bringing a member of Arsenal Women Supporters Club with us. Pray for George. Let's hope he gets on. Okay.
1:06.1	How do you feel about Chelsea's season so far?
1:09.5	To be honest, it's the worst one we've had in a long time, but still second in the WSEL. So, yeah, it's not brilliant, but the fact that... If that's your worst. Exactly. Do you know what I mean? The fact that everyone's sort of hating on Chelsea, but we're still second. I mean, I know there are games in hand, don't come out of my Arsenal Bands. You've got a trophy? Exactly. We've got one trophy at least. Hopefully two more. We're not getting the WSEL, so. Stick with it. That's a bad season. I think a lot of clubs would be happy if that was their bad season. George, how are you feeling about Arsenal's season so far?
1:46.2	Yeah, happy, obviously.
1:48.2	We didn't have the greatest start at the start of the season,
1:51.0	but I think we're due a rebuild.
1:54.4	But we're, let's like, hopefully we're not going to hand.
1:57.5	We should secure a second.
1:59.8	Still champions of Europe. europe hopefully that will carry
2:03.6	on and still got the fay cop to play for so can't complain too much really right this one's for both
2:08.9	you'll come to you first rosy but what do you think has caused both teams to maybe full short of
2:14.3	manchester city this season do you think it is a case of loading? Is it a case of
2:18.2	needing a bit of rotation? Is it a bit of everything? Yeah, City have definitely benefited from not
2:23.0	being in the Champions League this season. I think you can sort of tell that the Arsenal and
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