Man City demolish Chelsea, Arsenal are world champions (sort of), and the transfer window closes!
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Chelsea have been well and truly dumped from their perch. Chloe and Rachel react to a remarkable game at the Etihad where Man City ran riot and Sonia Bompastor and her players were left stunned. We discuss the reaction among Chelsea circles and what's really behind their rapid demise from unbeaten WSL juggernauts.
Elsewhere, Arsenal battle past Corinthians and their incredibly vibey fans – while Rach walks Chloe through the truly bizarre trophy presentation that followed. Plus, a quick round-up of the biggest transfer stories before the window shuts! Where will Katie McCabe be off to this summer?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Up Front. I'm Clay Morgan. And I'm Rachel O'Sullivan. The WSL title race looks like it's all but over and done and dusted. |
| 0:14.1 | Manchester City demolished Chelsea at the Etta had to leave them 11 points clear at the top. 11. |
| 0:20.9 | And with no signs of slowing down, |
| 0:22.8 | but what next for Sonia Bonpasta and Chelsea? |
| 0:25.8 | Meanwhile, Arsenal are champions of the world. |
| 0:29.1 | Stop it. |
| 0:29.7 | Of the world. |
| 0:30.5 | No, stop it. |
| 0:31.3 | They beat Corinthians in the pouring North London raid. |
| 0:34.1 | Rage was there and got absolutely soaps, |
| 0:36.3 | but also had a lot of fun. We're going to hear |
| 0:38.1 | all about that. Yeah, of course you did. It's the first tournament of his kind. What's wrong with you? |
| 0:41.9 | And the transfer window shuts tonight. We take a closer look at the biggest deals and reports |
| 0:46.2 | from the past week. God, it's been a very dramatic weekend, which I absolutely love for various different reasons, different tournaments taking place pretty much at the same time. |
| 0:59.6 | I was thinking this and I was like, when I was looking back over it and I was like, there was so much drama, but only in like one game. |
| 1:05.5 | Like Man City Chelsea just took all of the drama and we're like, we're going to have it and just keep it in our game. |
| 1:10.3 | And everyone else can just play out a kind of normal, expected result. |
| 1:15.3 | And then Arsenal Corinthians happened. |
| 1:17.6 | And it was the Battle of the Century. |
| 1:20.3 | We'll talk about that in the second partner show |
| 1:22.2 | because we do have to dive into what happened to Chelsea. |
| 1:25.1 | I can only describe it as lovely. Moments of the weekend, Rach. |
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