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Hello and welcome to a special weekend of this week, which is around women's football.

It will start off talking about women's football in general with Allison McGovern, Emma

Sanders and Molly Hudson.

Then we will shift ourselves along with Emma Sanders remaining with us and adding to that

with Liam Prescott and Philip a smallwood

to talk about how Liverpool women have ended up in the situation they've ended up in

this season looking back over a couple of years and we shall end this looking forward with John Gibbons towards what is to come for

Liverpool women and whether or not we can expect matters to improve going into

next season but starting off I've got with me, Ali McGovern, Emma Sanders and

Molly Hudson. And ultimately we've timed this really rather well. We happen to be recording

this segment on the day in which it was announced that the

women's super league will firstly be on the BBC secondly will be on Sky Sports

and thirdly it will result into significantly more money entering the game from that sort of

rights agreement to Emma and this is something that is hugely significant both

in terms of the finances but also in terms of the profile.

Yeah absolutely I mean in terms of the profile. Yeah, absolutely. I mean in terms of the profile alone, you're going to get more eyes on it, you're going to get more ears on it. It's going to be a much wider audience given the opportunity to watch women's football. It'll be on mainstream

free to air TV on the BBC, BBC 1 and BBC 2 channels for the first time in the history

of the competition, which is absolutely huge.

That's at least 18 matches that are going to be watched by hopefully thousands if not millions of people.

All you have to do is look at the figures from the 2019 World Cup to see just how popular women's football was on the BBC.

Then obviously Sky with the expert analysis, build up coverage and the huge investment that they're making, which, you know, it's been widely reported, is around 21 million across the three year period, at least.

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