Monday Night Club: Back to back Euros titles for the Lionesses
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Euro 2022 winner Fran Kirby, former England international Izzy Christiansen and former Premier League defender Nedum Onuoha join Steve Crossman to reflect on England's title-defending Euros campaign.
How did they do it? What does it mean to be 'proper English?' And what does Sarina Wiegman get so right?
The panel discuss the players that made the difference and the team attitude that saw the Lionesses become the first English side to win a major trophy on foreign soil.
Nikki Doucet, the CEO of WSL football also joins the pod to talk about how the success of the Lionesses could translate to a surge in popularity for the WSL. Timecodes: 7'33: How did England win the tournament? 12'25: What would Sarina Wiegman have been like in the England camp? 14'28: What is 'proper English?' 20'06: Sarina Wiegman's success 24'10: Fran Kirby on being told she isn't going to the Euros 27'51: What makes Leah Williamson a leader? 42'45: Nikki Doucet interview 51'32: Chloe Kelly's role 55'44: Hannah Hampton stepped up
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| 0:38.7 | The Football Daily Podcasts with Steve Crosman. |
| 0:46.1 | Hello, welcome to the Monday Night Club, as we reflect on an historic achievement, |
| 0:51.6 | the lionesses winning back-to-back European championships. |
| 0:55.8 | With us, we've got Euro 2020 winner Fran Kirby, former England midfielder Izzy Christensen, and Nadam Anewa. |
| 1:03.2 | Before we get into anything, Fran, I just wanted to ask you about the trophy, that trophy that you won, |
| 1:10.5 | and watching the way that Leah Williamson carried it |
| 1:13.6 | like it was nothing. Do you know, I mean, most people are so careful when they carry a trophy, |
| 1:18.4 | but once you've done it once, presumably you just sort of swing it back and forth. Yeah, I mean, |
| 1:22.1 | obviously she's won it twice now, so it probably feels quite natural for to hold it. So maybe that's |
| 1:27.4 | what it is. |
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