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Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

On The Continent: Troubling times for European football

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

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dotun and Andy are joined by Miguel Delaney as clubs, competitions and federations across Europe continue to feel the wider effects of the war in Ukraine. 


We wonder how this common cultural touchpoint across the continent will be altered, ask if anyone will ever challenge Bayern Munich and tip the hat to birthday boy Mauricio Pochettino.


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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another edition of On the Continent, your one stop shop for everything

0:05.9

to do with European football. I'm Dotson, Andy Brassel, and I'm Miguel Delaney.

0:10.9

On today's edition, the reverberations right across European football of the war, also

0:16.7

Pochettino's half century. Does he need a Paris scope to see him through the next half?

0:23.2

You guys saw what I did there, yeah? Good, good. And in the virtually one horse title

0:28.4

race that is the Bundesliga, do you blame Bayern or do you blame the also Reds?

0:36.4

Let's kick off with the reverberations of the war in Ukraine on football. Miguel,

0:43.4

you've written a brilliant piece in the independent, just about the repercussions,

0:47.3

and it's going to be profound all across Europe, is it not?

0:50.5

Oh yeah, I mean, obviously any discussion should be prefaced with the

0:54.5

acknowledgement that none of this actually matters compared to what's really going on in

0:59.6

Ukraine and even to Russian people, because they're not responsible for the action of their state.

1:06.4

But it just as it's changing the world, this invasion is changing football, and we've already seen

1:14.9

huge repercussions, which is going to influence the top end of the game, and really beyond,

1:23.9

where Roman and Brownvitch has already announced his sale, or sorry, that he intends to sell.

1:31.4

So that alone, it leaves, we're into uncertainty about the order European football,

1:36.8

especially because we've become so used to these big English superclubs being the main

1:43.2

gravitational pull. So it's going to be interesting as regards what next. What also is

1:47.6

potentially taking a potential buyer away from another club across Europe.

1:55.3

Of course, the biggest consequence really is what's going to happen with the women's

1:59.7

euros and above all, the world cup, given Russia have been banished by UEFA and FIFA, and

2:09.3

as well as we can get into the actual merits of that, given again, we expect them to go to

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