England lose on their Euros homecoming, Ireland smash Belgium, and goodbye Jess Fishlock
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Chloe and Rachel are back from their escapades around Europe for a very international pod! And a certain very important England debut...
Chloe celebrates Khiara Keating's first appearance between the sticks for England, while Rach explains that - despite the 2-1 defeat against a VERY pumped Brazil - the Lionesses showed their teeth in this game. But one listener asks if England have an Alessia Russo problem.
Plus, Ireland bag a huge win in Dublin, mainly courtesy of Katie McCabe and partly courtesy of Nicky Evrard's back. And we give Jess Fishlock the goodbye she deserves by putting a topknot on the Wales dragon. Join us!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Upfront. I'm Chloe Morgan. And I'm Rachel Sullivan. On today's show, we're looking |
| 0:08.6 | at England's first game since that Euro's final, that magic, magic moment in July that we all still |
| 0:13.9 | think about. Well, I do. A loss to Brazil, but there's no reason to panic, says Sassie Vig. We also |
| 0:19.3 | chat about all things Ireland after their dominant win over Belgium in Dublin. |
| 0:24.0 | Finally, we spent some time on Wales, the big story being Jess Fislox's final game for the Dragons |
| 0:29.1 | after almost two decades of service. |
| 0:36.3 | Before we get stuck into today's show, just a heads up that we will be bringing you another |
| 0:40.1 | special interview this week, this time with former lioness Claire Rafferty. And we're super, |
| 0:46.0 | super excited for this one, aren't we, Rach? Yeah, looking forward to it. You know, I had a great |
| 0:51.5 | chat with Molly Bartrop recently. And I think following up with Claire and chatting about, like, her ADHD and stuff like that. She's been really open about that. So I'm really excited to chat to her. Yeah, amazing. And I think also just like her career off the pitch, what she's done or behind the scenes. Yeah, I'm going to get stuck into. I think about the injuries she came back from. Like, it unbelievable. Right. Moments of the weekend. It's obviously been quite an eventful weekend for you with your favourite team back in action again. And also the lioness is obviously they're friendly against Brazil. But where are you going? Because we also had the FA Cup action as well. There's been a busy weekend. I'm going to save all my Ireland chat for the |
| 1:27.9 | Ireland section. There's lots of good stuff there. Very well behaved. But I think if there's one |
| 1:32.0 | thing you watch from this international break thus far, let it be the Caroline Weir wonder goal |
| 1:37.5 | that she scored in the 90th minute to win the game for Scotland. She was maybe 35 yards out, caught the keeper |
| 1:49.0 | off her line. And it's literally one of those that just just tucks in under the crossbar as it |
| 1:53.4 | comes looping over the goalkeeper. An absolute wonder strike for her. Great to see her back |
| 1:58.5 | scoring unbelievable goals for Scotland. Great to have her back for Scotland and doing what she does best. So yeah, that was one of those that like while I was at other games, I could just see popping off on Twitter like, oh my God, have you seen Caroline Weir's goal? Have you seen her goal? So if you haven't, go watch it. This is a template Caroline Weir thing to do as well. Like you always expect like Caroline Weir, Georgia Stanway, they're going to Scott, |
| 2:18.1 | Kira Walsh, they'll always score like screamers like that. They're not like, they're never for the faint-hearted, those kind of goals. My moment of the weekend has definitely got to be in Austin and Uni. They, it's the first time they've ever been in the FA Cup first round proper. So massive, massive congratulations to them. And they were also the first university team to make it |
| 2:36.1 | through to that round men's and women's as well. |
| 2:38.6 | So yeah, didn't go to plan. |
| 2:40.4 | Played Cambridge United and lost 2-1, |
| 2:42.1 | but a massive achievement for them and a big moment |
| 2:44.0 | in history. So yeah, I |
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