At The Match: Crystal Palace 3-0 Coventry United, August 2022
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
We’re back! Flo Lloyd-Hughes, Rachel O’Sullivan and Chloe Morgan reunite for a special Crystal Palace homecoming for Chloe in their very first home game at the Hayes Lane Stadium since her retirement.
They discuss life for a player post-retirement and the buzz around one of the most exciting clubs in the Championship after the Euros. We also hear from Palace players Felicity Gibbons, Annabel Blanchard and Leigh Nicol and get amongst the ultras!
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| 0:29.0 | So good. A vegan burger. I'm not a vegan, but vegan burger is delish. It's very impressed with the food auction term. |
| 0:37.3 | Turn out to him. Um, Emirates. I had a terrible, like, two slice of pizza, about nine quid, and I've got a whole pizza here. |
| 0:47.2 | Even some of pizza expresses finest establishments would be, you know, proud of making. So, um, top effort, we're in the big orange, and now watching Arsenal full of stuff of dreams. |
| 0:58.9 | It really is. And we're back. We never left. Who are you people? We are live at Bromley Football Club. We're not live because it's obviously going out after we were here, but we're at Bromley Football Club, uh, home to Crystal Palace Women FC, and also home to Chloe Morgan. Hello, uh, recently retired. I mean, so much has happened in the last month that we, we were together on Wembley Way. Um, most importantly, you retired. You hung at your boots. |
| 1:28.9 | And that's kind of why we're here, right? It felt like time to be honest. I can't believe it's been a month since I've seen you guys. I know it's crazy. We've held. We don't have enough time to talk about everyone's holidays. Rachel's been on galloping around Europe for about very, very 10 weeks. Thank you. |
| 1:42.9 | Uh, did you have a holiday? No, you packed all your holidays in before the Euro's, didn't you? Yeah, I was talking about 17 holidays, but she was then, then before the Euro's. Yeah, I was broken for the whole of the July. So, uh, so yeah, it's been quite nice. Well, I say it's like been quite nice as a relaxing thing. |
| 1:58.7 | But like going into this new job now has been absolute chaos. It's because of it. I feel like the training schedule that I had before was probably less work than what I'm currently doing now. |
| 2:08.8 | And you thought you were getting an easy gig. This is why this is why you're a tight thought. I can't handle the stress anymore of doing this and balancing a full-time job. |
| 2:16.3 | But now you're like, oh, my God, please give me the gloves back. Do you feel like they've taken the training wheels off and just sent you off, you know, into the deep end with you? |
| 2:22.7 | It does feel a little bit like that because everything's kind of escalated this season. And because we've got in 15 new signings, it does feel like there's just so much stuff that's going on and kind of getting up to speed with everything and being behind the scenes now is just madness. |
| 2:37.3 | Like you get to know the secrets and the in-den-outs. We're going to get more more info on the part of in-depth, in-depth stuff. Yeah, secrets are coming down. Yeah, exclusives. Yeah, so yeah, I mean update listings on what's happened because you've alluded to your new role. |
| 2:50.4 | So tell us about retirement and what that new role is. Yeah, so I think I mean, I was struggling with retirement. I was struggling with the right decision. Like you always feel like, oh, maybe there's one more season, one more game left in you. And I think it felt like a really weird time to be leaving the game because there was just so much attention and so much kind of focus and stuff going on. |
| 3:08.3 | So, you know, off the back of the women's euros, I was like, oh, there's going to be all this hype around it while I believe in women's football at this point. |
| 3:13.8 | But, and like once I've left, I mean, I'm pretty old now in terms of, you know, the championship and WSL average age. I am the grand mar of the whole British. |
| 3:21.9 | I'm the grand of the post. So careful. |
| 3:26.5 | But yeah, I think for me, like, it just felt like the right time in terms of like the kind of talent coming up now. Like there's so many young goalkeepers. |
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