Chelsea's unbeaten run comes to an end and Arsenal bounce back
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Chelsea didn't have a chisel and hammer on Sunday to get through Everton and Courtney Brosnan... so THE RUN has come to an end!
Chloe and Rachel react to a huge upset and the dodgy social media graphics that followed. But is the title race really all over? We think not...
Plus, Arsenal get a desperately-needed win at the Emirates after some seismic reports during the international break. We give our thoughts on that and Chloe sheds more light on dressing room dynamics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Up Front. I'm Clay Morgan and I'm Rachel Sullivan. |
| 0:07.2 | It's happened. Everyone, it's happened. Chelsea's WSL unbeaten run has come to an end after |
| 0:13.0 | Everton's shock upset. We're going to discuss what happened, how it happened and what it means |
| 0:17.8 | of a Man City who have surely taken a huge step towards that title. |
| 0:22.9 | Meanwhile, Arsenal have left it very late to see off Liverpool in a must-win game at the Emirates. |
| 0:27.6 | We reflect on that, the return of our goddess, Lear Williamson, and a huge game tonight to save them in the Champions League. |
| 0:36.1 | Before we get underway, Rach, just a little reminder that we still have our very special competition open to all upfront listeners right now. Rachel's actual response was, for fuck sake, give them the fucking shirt already. Come on, guys. Don't know where it's being stored, so I can't even find that for you. It's in a locker somewhere with up-lis, backlish, where you, it goes, ah, that would be quite cool, wouldn't it? Budget's gone up this year. We are giving away a framed England shirt signed by Lucy Bronze. That's right, an England shirt with Lucy Bronze's actual in real life signature and it could be yours, minus the noise. All you had to do is click the link in the show notes and complete a very short survey. |
| 1:11.5 | It's really simple and it will take you no time at all to complete it. |
| 1:15.0 | Once you've submitted, you'll be automatically entered into the prize part. |
| 1:18.4 | So go ahead, click the link in the show notes and put your name in the hacks. |
| 1:23.8 | So, Rach, it has been a very, very dramatic weekend. But before we get stuck into this quite |
| 1:29.7 | unforeseen game result, what's your moment of the weekend? So I have gone with the winning |
| 1:38.1 | goal for Tottenham that Olivia Holt scored. Drew Spence's assist for that. It was in the 95th minute. |
| 1:46.2 | This game came alive at the death. |
| 1:52.9 | And it was a beautiful kind of reverse pass from Drew Spence, kind of looking over her shoulder, sent in a lovely ball. |
| 1:59.9 | My favourite bit, though, was that as soon as the ball fell to Olivia Holt's feet, Drew Spence put her hands up in the air. |
| 2:01.5 | She knew it was going to be a goal. And she, and there was a lot of work for Olivia Holt to do to then take the ball, take a touch, pick out her spot, tight angle. Now, Drew Spence knew. As soon as that ball met her feet, it was going in. And she celebrated before it, it was good like three seconds, four seconds before the ball actually went in the back of the net. But Drew Spence knew, and I just, I love that. |
| 2:18.8 | I love when players celebrate early when you can, you know, like a shot from behind. |
| 2:32.5 | And you can see like the midfielders being like, it's in. I know it's in. So that was my moment of the weekend. I love that. That's really lovely, mate. Really, really lovely. Mine is a personal moment of the weekend, actually. |
| 2:56.6 | I got a very special message from a friend of the pod, Maggie Murphy, who listens every day on her commute in on the car. Every day, because that must get repetitive. Every day, yeah, over and over again. Just the same episode until the next one. 100% like she says, like she loves it so much. And that's why our numbers have been so high this season. Thank you, Maggie. She offered me a hospitality director's box suite at the Aston Villa Man United game in January. |
| 3:01.5 | Wow, thanks Maggie. Really appreciate that offer to me too. She obviously just listens to your voice on the pod. She said, like, Chloe, I've listened to you. I know you've been hard done by this year. |
| 3:06.8 | You haven't had a lot of hospitality experiences. |
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