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🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
0:03.0 | Just a brief disclaimer that this particular episode of the Athletic Football |
0:07.3 | Podcast contains discussions about sexual abuse, coercive control and |
0:11.1 | other distressing topics. Hello, I'm Dan Bardell, and I'm Floy Lloyd Hughes. |
0:27.0 | And welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast where every Wednesday, Flo and myself pick up one article from all the writing available on the |
0:33.6 | athletic and put the authors under the spotlight. |
0:35.8 | Yeah, and this week it felt like there was only one piece really to talk about because |
0:39.3 | last week Meg Lynnahan, who is a woman soccer writer for the athletic in the U.S. broke a story that brought |
0:45.2 | U.S. professional women's football to a complete standstill. |
0:48.6 | Her incredible investigative piece with colleague Katie Strang detailed the experiences of |
0:53.4 | Shinnade Farley and Manishim and accusations of sexual coercion |
0:57.6 | by the now former North Carolina courage coach Paul Riley. |
1:00.9 | Yeah it's an incredibly powerful moving and impactful article and before we do introduce Meg Flo, |
1:05.8 | I just wanted to ask you for your own reaction to this troubling stora. |
1:09.0 | Yeah, it was extremely shocking and I should add that Riley denies the allegations against |
1:16.2 | him and says they are completely untrue. Meg will you know I'm sure we'll be |
1:20.4 | able to sort of give the context really well on this but I think for so |
1:25.9 | many people and why I think it was really important that we bring it to this |
1:28.8 | podcast is so many people probably won't realize the size of this story and its impact unless you know |
1:35.8 | women's football because it is the equivalent of you know one of the biggest managers |
1:41.0 | in in the men's game you know it's that you know, it's that kind of status, it's that kind of level |
1:45.6 | we're dealing with in terms of success, in terms of who he is and the name. |
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