Upfront: Beth Mead stars again, England's next captain, and what's going wrong at Manchester City?

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

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Soccer, Womens World Cup, Girls Football, Lionesses, Womens Sports, Female Sports, Chloe Kelly, Womens England Football, Leah Williamson, Womens Soccer, Nwsl, Keira Walsh, Womens Football, England Womens, Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Upfront, a brand new women's football podcast available every Tuesday on Football Ramble Presents! Each week we'll bring you the biggest stories from the WSL and beyond, and take you to the cultural heartbeat of the women's game.

Today, we look back over the weekend's FA Cup semi-finals which saw a Beth Mead-inspired Arsenal sweep aside Brighton and Chelsea prove too much for a stuttering Manchester City. Elsewhere, we also discuss England's group and potential captain ahead of Euro 2022 next summer! Welcome along!

Flo Lloyd-Hughes is a journalist and broadcaster who covers the women's game for some of the UK's biggest outlets.

Rachel O'Sullivan is the Irish half of GirlsontheBall and has been covering women's football for almost a decade.

Chloe Morgan is a professional goalkeeper at Crystal Palace and a member of the Women In Football board.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Upfront, a brand new weekly women's
0:29.9	football show here on football ramble presents. I'm Flo Lloyd Hughes. I'm Rachel
0:34.4	Sullivan and I'm Chloe Morgan. We'll be here every Tuesday on the football
0:38.0	ramble presents feed with the biggest stories from around the women's game.
0:41.2	We'll dive into the WSL every week, bring you the biggest news from women's
0:45.4	football around the globe and talk to those at the cultural heartbeat of the
0:49.0	game.
1:02.0	On today's show, there's another FA Cup final classic to look forward to in
1:05.5	December as Chelsea and Arsenal won their respective semi-finals this weekend. I'm
1:10.1	going to be recapping their 3-0 wins on each side of the WSL's defining rivalry.
1:15.7	Elsewhere England found out their opponents for the group sages of Euro 2022 and
1:20.8	there are some familiar faces lining up against the Lionesses next summer.
1:25.9	So, let's get straight into it. Last season's women's FA Cup semi-finals. The
1:35.9	amount of times I had to explain this to people when I was working on the weekend
1:39.2	because they didn't understand why the semi-finals the women's FA Cup were
1:42.5	being played in November. So, I had to keep saying, this is actually the 2020-2021
1:46.4	semi-finals, but we're getting there. We're getting there to completing last season's
1:50.6	competition. Two big semi-finals. Let's start in Manchester. Manchester City
1:57.7	Nile, Chelsea 3, pretty one-sided affair and a big win for Emma Hayes. What are
2:04.3	your thoughts, team? I'm not overly surprised. I think with everything that's
2:09.0	gone on with Man City season so far, Chelsea were definitely the favourites. I just don't
2:15.2	know what's gone on at City. I'm not going to lie. I think they've struggled. I know
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