Dream debuts, Chelsea edge Man City, and Rach's dark horses deliver!
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Chloe and Rachel are back after an opening weekend packed FULL of storylines! Except Brighton vs Aston Villa...
We look back on Arsenal's victory over London City Lionesses – and the Kangster dropping a huge world record transfer fee for Grace Geyoro. Plus, will Sam Kerr really breeze back into this Chelsea team? What does Grace Clinton's exit say about Manchester United? And can there be a better debut than scoring a hat-trick in the Merseyside derby?!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to Up Front. I'm Chloe Morgan and I'm Rachel Sullivan. |
| 0:05.9 | Chelsea and Arsenal got after a winning start on the opening weekend of the WSL, |
| 0:11.0 | Chelsea beating title rivals, Manchester City and Arsenal dismissing those pesky disruptors, |
| 0:16.8 | London City lionesses. But there was also plenty of transfer business last week. Michelle Kang, |
| 0:22.1 | the Kangster, slapped £1.4 million on a new star from France. And Grace Clinton crossed |
| 0:28.5 | the border in Manny. We'll catch up on all of that and much, much more. |
| 0:54.4 | Great. It's so nice to be back in the studio, mate. I've had a holiday, it's been relaxing. I've taken a step back. It was very nice. It was absolutely gorgeous. It was my partner's 30th. And we just took a relaxing break away from everything. Didn't look at Slack. Didn't look at messages. Beers in a hot tub. Yeah, it was gorgeous. |
| 0:56.5 | Although I got bollicking for that photo. |
| 1:09.0 | Why? Yeah, I thought it was a really nice photo. It was a lovely photo. Yeah, yeah. I'll re-upload it today. You look like a proud girlfriend. I was a proud girlfriend. I was like 30. now you're finally in my decade, which is lovely. |
| 1:11.2 | Anyway, moving swiftly on. |
| 1:11.2 | Moments of the weekend, it is lovely. Anyway, moving swiftly on. |
| 1:15.9 | Moments of the weekend, it was such a lovely, spicy weekend to get stuck into. |
| 1:17.0 | It delivered drama. |
| 1:18.1 | It delivered goals. |
| 1:19.3 | It delivered moments. |
| 1:20.8 | It was, it was gorgeous. |
| 1:23.4 | But try and find me a gem in all that. |
| 1:27.6 | So that was hard because we don't want to repeat stuff that we're going to touch on either. |
| 1:32.8 | So I'm going to highlight a low light that I want booted out of the game. |
| 1:33.2 | I love it. |
| 1:38.1 | Immediately. Yeah. And that is, look, I'm not a fan of halftime interviews. I hate them. |
| 1:43.4 | Fucking in-match interviews. Are you kidding me? Stop that right now. Absolutely not. |
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