Upfront: Shuffling the Lionesses pack, farewell to Formiga, and this weekend's FA Cup final

Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast

Stak Production

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

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Sarina Wiegman seems very aware of the need to manage the workload of her England side, only then to play the same team every qualifier. Why?!

Flo, Rachel and Chloe try to answer that and recap a mixed international window for the Home Nations and Ireland. We also bid farewell to a Brazilian legend and look ahead to what should be an outrageously good FA Cup final this weekend!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Upfront on Football Rumble Presents. I'm Flow Lloyd Hughes. I'm Clay Morgan, and I'm Rachel O'Sullivan.
0:22.0	On today's show, we assess the state of play with England as they turn to their next World Cup qualifier, following a dogged fight with Austria.
0:29.2	Also, does it matter that the Lionesses don't have a home ground?
0:32.8	We also bid farewell to one of the all-time greats on the international stage for Miga, but her swan song leaves a sour taste.
0:40.8	And we look ahead to Sunday's long-awaited FA Cup final between Arsenal and Chelsea. I am psyched for that, but more of that later.
0:59.2	Good evening, Fanda Sondar. Try to the cross-prion, Hedda. Giga, Hada, Nidimov.
1:13.2	Sunderland, very cold, windy, Sunderland. Rachel, you were there. I didn't make it, ended up in Luton instead.
1:22.8	Looking in, balance of things, I'm not quite sure what was worse, weather-wise, probably Sunderland.
1:28.2	But 10,000 people did, which I was actually really chuffed with, because once I saw even the kickoff time, I was like, 12-30 kickoff on Saturday's not great.
1:36.5	And then when the weather did what it did with that storm, I thought, uh-oh, but actually 10,000's not bad.
1:42.4	I was pretty impressed with how many turned out, given the...
1:44.6	Well, they lively as well. They sounded all right. Yeah. But, you know, kept them warm, shouting and jumping around and doing their Mexican wave, which I know you love.
1:51.4	Oh, good. The England band got there a bit late. I think it was 15 minutes in before they started their first song.
1:57.3	But, um, no, it was a good, good atmosphere considering the conditions and all of that stuff.
2:02.8	So, yeah, I was impressed with that.
2:04.3	Yeah, I think it's a weird one, isn't it, because they're on this almost sort of like, weird tour.
2:11.4	That's not really a tour where they're just sort of playing at random games that they almost like look at a map of England, like...
2:16.9	Should we play in Southampton? Should we go down the South Coast? Yeah, let's do that.
2:19.8	Should we actually then just like go up to the Northeast? Yeah, and then should we go to like Yorkshire? Yeah, let's do that.
2:25.1	It's very random, isn't it?
2:26.4	Yeah, I wonder if it's a bit of a, um, dark-wood situation, map on the wall.
2:29.9	Totally. That's what it feels like.
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