Spurs' magnificent seven, a near-perfect week for Man United, and representation in punditry
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Yes, Villa fans, we know you lost 7-3 at Villa Park... But PLEASE don’t start panicking about Natalia Arroyo. Everything’s fine, it was just a mad game...
Elsewhere, we review a near-perfect week for Man United - even if Jim Ratcliffe seems intent on spoiling it. Plus, after the controversy around Eni Aluko this week, we chat about representation and inclusion within punditry across the women’s game.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Up Front. I'm Play Morgan. And I'm Rachel O'Sullivan. It was goals galore this weekend. Well, goals galore in Astonville versus Spurs. That was pretty much 20 goals apiece in that game. We'll be discussing all the madness of that game, plus a big result for Man United against London City Lionesses who put up a great fight against a team in hot form |
| 0:26.0 | after the Champions League. Come on United, I'm back in that fan base. And after all the |
| 0:31.8 | controversy and divisive conversation over the past week, we're going to have a very |
| 0:35.7 | frank conversation about representation in punry across the women's game. |
| 0:58.3 | Rachel, there's a lot of really interesting things that have been said this week that we're definitely going to get stuck into. A lot of debate, a lot of discourse, a lot of narratives. |
| 1:03.9 | Yeah, it's been a bit of a hot, spicy week for takes this week. How are you feeling, mate? |
| 1:10.2 | How's it been for you? I feel like you've been here there and everywhere. You've lost your contact lenses. You're driving up and down the country, trying to find various bits and pieces of your possessions. Yeah, how's it going? I wish it was my contact lenses. It was my camera lenses. That was the problem. Are your camera lenses? I'm fine. I have been here then everywhere. I've been Belgium and |
| 1:28.3 | Madrid and back in time to watch Friday night under the lights from the couch and then |
| 1:31.9 | covering Chelsea and getting absolutely drenched as per, because it hasn't stopped raining |
| 1:37.0 | in this country for the last like eight weeks. So yeah, it's been a bit of a busy week, |
| 1:42.3 | well. Oh, me. Well, I feel it was like a long time ago since we're in the studio. And I always miss that studio vibe. Yeah, it feels like we're very sort of like so far away. But at some point we will come back together and see each other and have a lovely coffee made by one of the producers, Bruno, who makes the most fabulous last age. We're so demanding. |
| 2:01.0 | Anyway, you should see our rider. |
| 2:02.1 | I digress. |
| 2:03.2 | Yeah, it's give Mariah Carey vibes. |
| 2:06.5 | What's your moment of the weekend? |
| 2:10.3 | Difficult one. |
| 2:11.3 | There's lots of goals and stuff to choose from and maybe some not so exciting fixtures. |
| 2:15.5 | So I'm going to go with capturing LJ's celebration |
| 2:21.0 | after her goal. I haven't seen if anyone else has got the same shot. |
| 2:25.8 | But yeah, I captured that celebration and I swear to God when I zoom in on it, |
| 2:29.4 | she's looking straight down my camera lens. So it doesn't happen very often where you're in like |
| 2:33.5 | the perfect place for the perfect shot and I got a message from Sophie right afterwards going, I really hope |
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