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Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

The Women’s Football Show: Gabby George's injury nightmare, Angharad James' Olympic ambitions and how to tackle online abuse.

Sky Sports Premier League Podcast

Sky Sports

Sports News, Sports, News, Soccer

4.0760 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Everton's Gabby George opens up about her 12-month battle with injury as she was forced to wait for surgery due to the coronavirus pandemic. Reading and Wales midfielder Angharad James reveals her Olympic ambitions and discusses the issue of LGBT+ inclusivity within the women’s game. Jess Creighton and Sue Smith are also joined by Kick It Out boss Tony Burnett to discuss the growing problem of online abuse and how to make the game more inclusive.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Sky Sports Football Podcast brought to you by Bet365, where every now biting nil-nil, every bizarre VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap-in, full-start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.

0:17.3

From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsport. Whatever the moment, it's never

0:22.8

ordinary at Bet 365.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to the women's football show.

0:40.2

Now, it was International Women's Day this week, and as always on the program, we have a whole host of incredible women to celebrate, including Everton's Gabby George, who's just back from an ACL injury.

0:52.3

Also, Ankara James, the Wales and Reading midfielder,

0:55.6

will be discussing exciting developments both on and off the pitch. We'll also be discussing

1:00.7

Team GB updates and the Champions League results as well. Plus, we have Tony Burnett joining us.

1:08.4

He's the new CEO of Kick It Out and he'll be discussing discrimination

1:11.5

in football. But first, talking of incredible women, former England star Sue Smith is alongside me.

1:19.3

How are you, Sue? I'm very well, Jess. Thank you very much. And it looks like I've been

1:25.6

writing your script again, doesn't it? Incredible women,

1:28.3

I like that. I'll pay you later. Yeah, I expect to check in the post.

1:36.0

All right. Now, as we are celebrating International Women's Day, how about this for a

1:41.3

celebration suit? Last week, Northern Ireland found out who they'll be playing in the Euro 2020 playoff.

1:47.9

So let's show you Simone McGill's reaction.

1:52.0

She's surrounded by her Everton teammates.

1:54.2

Take a look.

1:56.7

Come on.

2:06.9

No! No! Come on. I think she might have been happy about that.

2:09.8

That's absolutely brilliant.

2:11.4

Let's also get some reaction from her fellow Northern Irish teammates.

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