England break through Iceland, Australia wobble at the Asian Cup, and our League Cup final preview!
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
As domestic football finally returns to our screens this weekend, Chloe and Rachel are not ready to leave international pastures just yet. They discuss the Lionesses' professional win against Iceland and how Lucy Bronze proved her value for this England team (like she ever needed to).
Goal's lead women's football writer Ameé Ruszkai joins us to give the lowdown on all things Asian Cup, after the group stages finished today. And will Man United finally put some Chelsea ghosts to rest and win their first League Cup? Well, there's a footlong sub on the line either way...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Up Front. I'm Clay Morgan. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Rachel Sullivan. |
| 0:07.0 | Step two on the road to Brazil and the lionesses have shaken off their next challenge, a game against Iceland in Nottingham. |
| 0:15.0 | We'll be taking a look at that game as well as Ireland's travails against yet another top level opponent in the Netherlands. |
| 0:21.3 | After that, we'll be chatting to Amy Ruski about the Asian Cup where the group stages have just wrapped up. |
| 0:31.1 | Rach, lovely to see another side of your kitchen this week. |
| 0:34.9 | You know, since I've not been around and we were trying to, we've had a bit of a |
| 0:38.3 | disagreement about, you know, me not really invited. You said that I have been invited. I haven't, |
| 0:42.3 | you know, made the effort to go over in Christmas time to try some of your lovely Panatoni. |
| 0:48.1 | I will swiftly move on. But please do tell us your moments of the weekend. Yeah, so we were |
| 0:53.5 | discussing whether moments of the week should be happy things or not. |
| 0:57.2 | But I want to use this one as an opportunity to raise the fact that aerial fantasy, one of the fantasy football leagues with the WSL will be shutting down at the end of the season, which I think is pretty devastating for something that has been grown over the last number of years, fan-led with over 30,000 users by last summer, |
| 1:17.1 | which is incredible. And we've often been encouraging our listeners to get involved and join |
| 1:21.6 | our league. One of few, if any, fancy apps out there. And I know how much hard work went into getting this to where it is now |
| 1:31.9 | and I just think it's an absolute missed opportunity for WSL football not to get on board with them |
| 1:37.8 | and work out how they can do this collaboratively because you know why would you want to |
| 1:43.3 | wow okay sorry listeners for those |
| 1:46.9 | listening. The cat literally just landed on my keyboard, mid-sentence. Excuse me, I'm so sorry |
| 1:56.1 | for the interruption. I've really enjoyed that. I've really enjoyed that. A massive missed opportunity, I think, to not collaborate with a platform that's already |
| 2:06.6 | out there, already developed, already got the expertise, already got a huge fan base, already |
| 2:11.6 | loved by fans and used by fans, to not come together and work out a way somehow that this could be sustained. |
| 2:19.9 | And I know those kind of things take time and there's lots of stuff that has to go on behind |
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