Staying On Theme
Full Time: A show about women's soccer
The Athletic
4.8 • 807 Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
It’s 2022, and Full Time is back! Meg and Steph catch up on the major events of the year so far, especially the ongoing collective bargaining negotiations between the players’ association and the NWSL, plus the ongoing ownership saga of the Washington Spirit and plenty more.
Follow Steph Yang on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thrace
Meg’s report on a potential work stoppage: https://theathletic.com/news/nwsl-players-wont-report-to-clubs-without-cba-in-place-sources/6Lq02CrVJBBr/
The latest NWSLPA statement: https://twitter.com/nwsl_players/status/1486087651271020545
NWSL board approves ownership changes to the Washington Spirit: https://theathletic.com/news/nwsl-board-approves-michele-kangs-acquisition-of-additional-washington-spirit-shares/f6lYpjP2y2Wn/
Steph on North Carolina and Jaelene Daniels: https://theathletic.com/3085015/2022/01/21/north-carolina-courage-leaderships-response-to-jaelene-daniels-backlash-worsens-growing-disconnect-with-fans/
Statement from the Portland Thorns players: https://twitter.com/sincy12/status/1485756823307096064
And a statement from the team on their investigation: https://twitter.com/itsmeglinehan/status/1486372083970064385
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome back to full time with Meg Linnehan. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Meg and you are listening to a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network. |
| 0:24.9 | Now, I know it has been a while. |
| 0:27.8 | The holidays snuck up on us there. |
| 0:30.2 | I had some time off earlier this month that I never want to publicly announce again |
| 0:34.8 | because every time I do something major happens and I don't want to |
| 0:39.7 | jinx us with a million breaking news items. But then, you know, the NWSL seems determined to keep |
| 0:45.1 | it going on that front anyway. But we are back. We are back for 2022. I think we will be back on a |
| 0:51.8 | normal regular schedule as of right now. |
| 0:54.6 | Steph Young is back again as we catch up over some major stories across the league |
| 0:59.9 | from collective bargaining negotiations, potentially sending us into a work stoppage to the |
| 1:05.0 | Washington spirit because, of course, the Washington spirit to updates in Portland and North Carolina. There is more than |
| 1:12.9 | enough to discuss, and it feels like we barely scratched the surface. Now, before we get to the |
| 1:18.1 | rest of today's episode, as always, to show your support full-time, plus get all of our |
| 1:21.9 | women's soccer coverage and everything else. The Athletic has to offer on our site and app. You can |
| 1:26.6 | subscribe right now at theathletic.com |
| 1:29.6 | slash full time. It is always one of our best deals at that URL. All right. This is going to be |
| 1:35.7 | a fairly news-heavy episode. So I don't want to dig in too far on the news this week at least, |
| 1:42.4 | but I will have links to some of our coverage at the athletic plus links to the relevant statements, |
| 1:47.2 | etc, that we are going to discuss in this show. |
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