Upfront: More brilliant Barcelona, Man United's European dreams, and the state of the game
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Flo, Rachel and Chloe revel in the weekend's glorious Champions League chaos, as Barcelona proved they're still the team to beat and Lyon got one over their domestic rivals.
Elsewhere, we ask how Man United can take the next step in the WSL after their Champions League hopes are all but lost yet again and Tracey Crouch's fan-led review raises important questions about the sustainability of women's football, top to bottom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Upfront on Football Rumble Presents, I'm Flo Lloyd Hughes, I'm Glow Morgan, and I'm |
| 0:07.6 | Rageela Sullivan. |
| 0:08.6 | Today we look back on the Women's Champions League from the weekend, it did not disappoint |
| 0:13.3 | 11 goals across both ties as Barcelona put on a show against Walsburg and Leon Baffle |
| 0:18.8 | Pass, their title rivals PSG. |
| 0:21.0 | Back in the WSL, Champions League qualification is no longer in Man United's hands, what |
| 0:41.5 | exactly has gone wrong, and with news that the government will be conducting an in-depth |
| 0:45.4 | review into women's football, we ask, what's it all for, and how can the government and |
| 0:50.2 | the FA truly build for the Euro? |
| 1:15.4 | Before we get stuck into the Champions League, because it's hot and up, I want to ask Chloe |
| 1:24.9 | about her hot weekend in Bromley, last palace home game of the season, I've seen a lot |
| 1:32.3 | of cute wholesome stuff on social media, a big win, big crowd, it was great vibes. |
| 1:38.0 | It was beautiful, honestly couldn't have been a better day, we had so many of the youngsters |
| 1:42.0 | like from Palace and all their families come down and a few birthdays, you're taking |
| 1:45.7 | out loads of shots and doing all signatures and things like that at the end, it was massive |
| 1:49.9 | because I think we've got such amazing fans that sort of travel with us all over the |
| 1:52.9 | country and they've got the banners up and things like that at the end, it was just like |
| 1:56.2 | a real kind of like heartwarming thing and I think that's the thing, you come to the |
| 2:00.1 | end of the season, you don't know who you're going to be playing with next year or where |
| 2:02.5 | people are going to be and it's really quite emotional when you look back and see what |
| 2:06.7 | we've achieved this season and it couldn't be proud of the girls for all the hard work |
| 2:10.4 | and effort that's gone in, so yeah, it felt a bit like you, you know, heartwarming but |
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