Welcome back to full-time with Megalindhan. We are back to weekly shows now following the Olympics.

And of course, this is still a show all about women's soccer on the Athletic Podcast Network.

I'm your host, Meg Linnehan. This week, Pablo Marr and Steph Young join me to discuss what exactly

is going on in Washington following our reporting on the team's handling of the departure,

suspension of head coach Richie Burke.

We also take a step back to discuss some larger NWSL issues, including broadcast quality,

facing the league after yesterday's media call with NWSL Commissioner Lisa Baird.

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As this episode is honestly very news driven,

we will actually dig right in. Here's Pablo and stuff. So trying to think of even where to start

with this. And honestly, I think it maybe makes the most sense to just start back in 2019 when Richie Burke got hired or announced as head coach with the Washington spirit.

And this is predating my time at the athletic.

But Steph, you covered this.

You really handled this part in our story as well in terms of what the discussion was at that point in time. So if you maybe want to

walk us through kind of the landscape of how this guy got hired, I think that's a good starting

point. They announced the hiring, I want to say December 2018. And then on the Instagram,

these comments popped up from someone like a parent of a player he'd coached on his boys youth team that was like,

you're hiring an abuser. He did, he verbally abused our son. And so I went to the parents. We confirmed who they were at Black and Red United.

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