Diversity across English women’s football
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Chloe and Rachel are joined by Dulwich Hamlet centre-back Ceylon Andi Hickman after Sarina Wiegman n’ co extended their unbeaten streak to 25 games! Just the 123 goals scored in that run, no big deal.
We look over the Lionesses’ win against Japan before focusing on issues of diversity and inclusion within women’s football after Beth Mead’s recent comments. Ceylon talks about a lack of access to opportunities she’s seen through her work with Football Beyond Borders, while Chloe discusses her experiences as a mixed-race player in our still largely inaccessible sport.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to up front. I'm Chloe Morgan and I'm Rachel Sullivan. England keep on winning. |
| 0:13.0 | They're unstoppable and unbeaten in 25 games after another good performance this time |
| 0:18.7 | beating Japan in Spain. We'll look into that and also Bethmie's recent comments, a little |
| 0:25.9 | bit controversial and explore the lack of diversity within the lionesses and what can be done |
| 0:30.4 | to address this across all levels of the game. Join us again, a friend of the pod, |
| 0:36.4 | a Dalits hamlet, centre back and head of brands at football beyond borders, sail on and |
| 0:42.1 | the Hickman. Thanks guys, good to be back and good to also be promoted to friend of the |
| 0:49.4 | pod. Yeah, we don't give them any lead to everyone who's on it. Do you get like a, like |
| 0:54.8 | a blue peat of badge or something? Yeah, we need to start handing those out really. We |
| 0:59.5 | keep saying we've got these badges and they never really materialise for our guests. So yeah, |
| 1:03.9 | that'll be something that producer Charlie is looking into ASAP. Thanks, Charlie. Right, |
| 1:08.5 | I mean, to start off, I mean, sail on since we've got you on and it's been such an amazing |
| 1:12.4 | week for yourself and the Dutch hamlet squad and the red pepper army or the pepper army. |
| 1:19.2 | Where did this come from? The pepper army. So not to be confused with the traditional |
| 1:24.8 | lunch box snack, pepper army. It's two separate words. Okay, sorry, that's where I was. I was |
| 1:30.4 | gone there, yeah. Right. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, yeah. Well, after the win on Sunday, |
| 1:34.9 | a pepper army was handed to Lucy Monkman, who's called a brace for us from the crowd, which |
| 1:40.2 | was a nice touch. But no, where's it come from? The pepper army came to the game armed |
| 1:43.7 | with pepper armies. But they're two different types of Lucy are pepper army. I've never |
| 1:48.9 | said that word so much. Yes. So the pepper as in as in chili pepper, spicy pepper, you |
| 1:54.5 | know, because we used to have a manager who was an amazing man called Farouk who built |
| 2:01.4 | AFC Phoenix, which used to be Dullich. And Farouk used to always talk about playing spicy |
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