Transfer latest and England prepare for Italy
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
England face Italy in the Euro semi final tomorrow night but Which England will turn up? The team that demolished Wales and dominated the Netherlands; or the team which struggled against France and Sweden? Sarina Wiegman is plagued with injury worries over host of players, notably captain Lea Williamson and full back Lucy Bronze. Kit Shepard and Gregor Robertson join Tom Clarke to asses England’s chances against the surprise package of the tournament, the Italians.
After the break all the latest on the big transfers of the summer. Rashford to Barca; Gyokeres to Arsenal; Ekitike to Liverpool; Mbeumo to Man Utd and Isak to sign a new contract?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times. |
| 0:08.0 | England's Euro 2025 semi-final with Italy is nearly here, but what version of Serena |
| 0:13.3 | Vigman's side will we see on Tuesday night? |
| 0:16.0 | Can they shake off the sloppy passing that has plagued their tournament so far? |
| 0:19.6 | Will Leah Williamson and Lucy |
| 0:21.0 | Bronze be fit to start the match? And crucially, are Italy as good as Germany's and Katrine Berger |
| 0:26.8 | at taking penalties? All that to come on today's show and will be reviewing the latest news |
| 0:32.1 | and transfers from the rest of the footballing world too. I'm Tom Clark and joining me today |
| 0:37.2 | we have the former |
| 0:37.8 | footballer turned journalist Gregor Robertson and the women's football reporter for the Times |
| 0:41.8 | and Sunday Times. Kit Shepard. Morning Kit. How we doing? Good morning. I'm very well. Thank |
| 0:47.0 | you. Just about to head from Zurich to Geneva. So hopefully a nice scenic Swiss train |
| 0:52.7 | journey ahead this afternoon. |
| 0:57.6 | Excellent. Well, thank you very much for joining us for the first half of this show. |
| 1:01.6 | Now, first thing we're going to want to talk about and get it here from you, you're heading to see an open training session this afternoon, I believe. We'll obviously be hoping that we'll see |
| 1:07.1 | Lucy Bronze and Leah Williamson out there with the ball at their feet. What's the latest from the England camp? |
| 1:12.7 | Yes, I think the biggest question mark is over Leah Williamson. |
| 1:17.1 | She left, first day's court final against Sweden, in crutches and with a protective boot. |
| 1:24.7 | We've been told that was just precautionutionary measure and that's kind of the last |
| 1:27.9 | official update we've had. |
| 1:29.9 | But that doesn't seem ideal four days before a semi-final. |
| 1:34.0 | We did hear from Esme Morgan on Saturday saying that she was very optimistic that Williamson, |
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