History Girls: How football came home... again
This Is Why
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The team had to overcome physical and psychological adversity throughout the tournament – from poor performances and penalty drama to a player being subjected to horrendous racial abuse. So how did inspirational manager, Sarina Wiegman, beat the odds once more?
On today's episode, our sports correspondent, Rob Harris, relives the highs and lows of Euro 2025 and we speak to the former FA Head of Women’s Football, Baroness Sue Campbell – one of the main architects of the Lionesses’ success.
Producers: Araminta Parker, Emily Hulme
Editor: Mike Bovill
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| 0:00.0 | You turned your dating app for pets into a business, which just turned over its first billion. |
| 0:06.5 | You turned around the fortunes of a failing football club, politely turned down a Nobel Peace Prize, |
| 0:13.8 | and turned up on Mars in your own reusable rocket. |
| 0:18.8 | While struggling to turn on the dishwasher, |
| 0:22.1 | there's more to imagine when you listen. |
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| 0:27.1 | Subscription required. |
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| 0:30.3 | This season, I want to feel it from the start, |
| 0:33.2 | from the whistle, from the first touch. |
| 0:35.6 | Want to beat the odds. |
| 0:36.8 | Want to take an early lead. Want to see why he costs so much money. Want to shout PIN! Before the ref is even called him. Want to see the call go our way for once. I want to hear their lot go quiet. Want to see them leave early. Want to drop into the group chat to tell them, I've seen future want to hear them agree and if not I'll say |
| 0:55.4 | want to bet |
| 0:56.5 | bet fred |
| 0:57.6 | 18 plus gambleaware.org |
| 0:59.7 | Come on |
| 1:03.1 | winner, winner chicken dinner |
| 1:08.7 | coming up on the daily |
| 1:10.1 | they've done it again. |
| 1:11.8 | The lionesses have made history by winning back-to-back European championship titles. |
| 1:16.4 | So how on earth did England's women achieve this remarkable feat? |
| 1:21.5 | Stop paying to invest. |
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