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On the Football Daily Podcast, this is the Monday Night Club, with Mark Chapman.

Welcome to the Monday Night Club, cast of thousands, as we talk about the women's

world cup final in the company of Mayor Letissier and Izzy Christensen, Michael Richards, Chris

Sutton, and Adam Crafton and May, you sat down next to myself and Adam as you arrived

and just went, I'm still gutted.

I know, so close.

Yeah, got it obviously for the girls, but yeah, they've done us all proud, so...

Do we simply say, Izzy, before we sort of break it down bit by bit from an England point of

view, and this is the case in a lot of sport at the time, sometimes you just have to hold

your hand up and say the better team won?

I think so. I think the way that Spain played, if anyone was going to be England in the

form, the England branch about the tournament, I think it was possibly going to be Spain,

and unfortunately for England, we met them in the final, and you know, it's been an unknown

how Spain were going to perform, you know, with everything that's going on behind the

scenes, and throughout the tournament, they had that final loss to Japan, so I thought

the game was wide open, it was going into it, and then obviously Spain just showed their

quality throughout the 90, and yeah, absolutely, like, got it in the same capacity as Mayor.

But Georgia Stanway said afterwards, Micah, the way we played in the first half was not

England standard, so on the one hand you hold your hands up and go, well, the better side

won, and then on the other, there will be, and you will have been in this situation, there

will be some regrets that they didn't hit their own heights.

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