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Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

Lyon end Arsenal's dreams, Millie Bright retires, and WSL2 promotion is decided!

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

Stak Production

Girls Football, Womens World Cup, Chloe Kelly, Lionesses, Nwsl, Football, Womens Football, England Womens, Keira Walsh, Womens England Football, Sports, Leah Williamson, Soccer, Womens Sports, Womens Soccer, Female Sports

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Champions League title defence is over. It was one step too VAR for Arsenal. Sorry, blame Rach for that one.


Chloe and Rachel react to Lyon's masterclass and moving perhaps one step closer to seeing Michele Kang without sunglasses. Meanwhile, Manchester City kept the title in their hands with last-gasp drama – was this the weekend that we saw the mentality of true champions?


And we finally know the two teams coming up into the WSL! But if someone could let us know what happens to all of Charlton's 'champions' t-shirts that would be great...


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0:00.0

Welcome to Up Front. I'm Chloe Morgan and I'm Rachel Sullivan.

0:07.3

Arsenal's Champions League dream. It's over. Leon got their revenge on Saturday and so did VAR.

0:14.6

Elsewhere, Chelsea prepared to face Man City in the FA Cup after an emotional week.

0:19.9

And WSL2 promotion is decided as well as who will

0:22.9

feature in that cheeky relegation playoff.

0:29.7

Loads of stuff happened across the board this weekend. But before we get stuck into any of the big

0:34.5

drama, Rachel, what was your moment of the weekend? Yamashutas Blue Hair. Oh, iconic. I loved it. I saw her running towards me on the pitch and I was like, that is blue steel right there. She's such a character. Obviously a great goalkeeper, but like, I just love that. And you can always guarantee she'll probably get involved in the celebrations. Doesn't matter, yeah, it doesn't matter how far down the pitch they are. She will make that run all the way up the end of the pitch to get involved. No, I loved the blue hair. It's going to look great when they lift the trophy. But yeah, I just made me smile. That's a really lovely one. How is a goalkeeper? Do you ever feel like you were left out of the cellies? All the time. Did you run the length of the pitcher?

1:11.0

Could you be arsed?

1:11.6

On occasion.

1:12.5

I wasn't, you know, I wasn't one for, you know, massive amounts of fitness back in the day.

1:16.4

But I think like towards the back end of the season when we were just about to get promoted, like in every game mattered and every goal mattered. like the celebrations then as long as it wasn't like you know in a silly moment of the game like you of minutes in, if it was the back end, like, I would 100% be screaming down there and giving it absolute beans. Yeah, it's, um, it really does get you. It really does get you. It's, um, yeah. I also like some isolating sometimes. When a defender, like this happened with, um, Birmingham, when the defender turns around, the one who's at like the halfway line and goes,

1:47.7

you know what, I'm going to go celebrate with the goalkeeper. I love that. Don't forget your little goalkeeper. Take a moment for us, you know. Take a moment for us. Man City don't need to worry. Yamashit will just be there. Wherever you score, she'll come, she'll celebrate with her blue hair. She's turning into quite the WSO character, isn't she?

1:58.0

I love her.

1:58.3

I'll never forget that game she played against Asterville and she wore a cap.

2:01.9

Yes.

2:02.8

I rated that as well.

2:03.6

Yes, yes, yes.

2:04.4

That's such an... quite the WSL character, isn't she? I love her. I'll never forget that game. She played against Asterville and she wore a cap.

2:01.8

Yes.

2:02.7

I rated that as well.

2:03.6

Yes, yes, yes.

2:17.8

That's such an old school throwback. I love it. It's so good. I know, that was it for me. My moment of the weekend, also blue related in a way. Well, not really a blue. Half a blue, half a red, but also kind of an OG blue.

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