Chelsea Legend Claire Rafferty on her work in football since retirement, living with ADHD and the fortunes of her former clubs

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

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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

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Upfront, Chloe and Rachel are joined by Chelsea legend and former Lioness Claire Rafferty to discuss about transfers and scouting in the men’s and women’s game. And, as ADHD Awareness Month comes to an end, Claire reflects on her experience of being diagnosed with – and living with – the condition.

She also discusses the trajectories of two of her former clubs in the WSL this season: unstoppable Chelsea and struggling West Ham.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Up Front. I'm Chloe Morgan. And I'm Rachel O'Sullivan. Today we are joined by former England International and Chelsea legend Claire Rappity. We chatted to her about life after retirement, the world of scouting and transfers, and as part of ADHD Awareness Month this October, her experience living with a disorder as a professional
0:21.0	footballer. We also touched on two of her former clubs at opposite ends of the WSL table, Chelsea
0:27.0	at the top and West Ham, still struggling at the bottom. Welcome to the pod, Claire. Thank
0:35.0	you so, so much for joining us, May. It's been a while. Me and Claire celebrated the Euro's final that Spain defeat, what, a few months ago now. It was a chaotic room in the middle of Soho. Josie Green was there from the World Squad. There was a brass band playing. People were jumping on the sofas. It was absolute chaos. Claire was one of them. Yeah, Claire was actually on the sofas. It was absolute chaos.
0:55.1	Claire was one of them.
0:57.5	Yeah, Claire was actually leading the processions.
0:58.5	It was pretty wild.
1:00.8	It was a vibe, wasn't it?
1:01.9	It was an absolute vibe.
1:05.1	I think that's probably one of the best atmospheres, actually, that I've been to.
1:09.4	Apart from being there live, I think that was definitely an experience for sure.
1:11.4	Dancing up and down, singing singing sweet caroline live music the but yeah it was so so good it was unbelievable people were frying
1:16.8	crispy creams across the floor it was um yeah it was also chaos but um yeah how are you doing
1:22.1	mate how's life since then yeah i'm doing very very well thank you i've actually been to
1:26.9	Disneyland Paris while I was there last week.
1:28.8	So I've actually got the T-shirt on.
1:30.5	I thought I'd rep it because I loved it so much.
1:32.8	Love that.
1:34.5	But, yeah, other than that, I got married, actually.
1:38.0	Disneyland was a bit of a honeymoon, so thank you.
1:42.1	So, yeah, all really good.
1:47.4	Quite a summer since those years. Yeah, you have like the wedding ears the bride is uh you know what i saw a couple of them but i thought because
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