Book Club: They Don't Teach This, Eniola Aluko
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode of The Book Club, we're joined by a legend of English women's football: former Chelsea, Juventus and England striker, Eniola Aluko!
Eni joins Kate and Jim in the studio to reminisce about the pivotal moments in a storied career that stretches back nearly two decades: from representing Great Britain at London 2012, to title wins in Italy and England. Eni's autobiography, 'They Don't Teach This', also documents the latter stages of her international career where the FA failed to look into her concerns surrounding racial discrimination and bullying within the England setup. We cover all of that and lots more on today's fascinating episode – join us!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
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| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Hello, this episode of Upfront is brought to you by Transport for London. |
| 0:28.6 | TFL are taking a zero tolerance approach towards hate crime and abuse of behavior on public transport |
| 0:34.0 | and making sure the network is as safe as possible for passengers and TFL staff. |
| 0:38.0 | If you find yourself witnessing an incident, you might wonder what you can do to help. |
| 0:42.0 | More on that later in the episode. |
| 0:46.0 | The fact is that a week before I was dropped from the England team for the first time in 11 years |
| 0:51.0 | I had given my account of what I felt was discrimination |
| 0:56.2 | towards me what I felt was a bullying culture. So whichever way you look at it |
| 1:01.6 | being part of that cultural review has cost me my |
| 1:05.8 | potentially costing my own group. |
| 1:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the book club with me Kate Mason and me Jim Campbell Campbell for this week's book club we start in a |
| 1:14.7 | fairly conventional place some kids are just really good at football wherever they go they'll |
| 1:19.2 | find other kids to play with they're honing their skills so that by the time they're being |
| 1:22.8 | scouted is so instinctual that people say they were born to play the game. Parents |
| 1:27.9 | watching on predict great things, glory, top clubs, if they can just show the |
| 1:31.9 | right people what they've got. |
| 1:34.0 | And you're Luco, one of those kids, but unfortunately for her, just letting her football |
| 1:38.4 | do the talking wasn't to turn out to be the only option. |
| 1:42.6 | I categorically refused to write any statement because I'd already |
| 1:47.2 | suggested that I did not, it's not for me to come up with that, |
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