Women’s Euros 2025: Will England defend their title?
The Game Football Podcast
The Times
3.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
England enter the tournament as defending Champions, but their preparation has not been smooth. With three senior players either retiring or making themselves unavailable, how will that affect Sarina Wiegman’s squad?
Tom Clarke is joined by former England international Izzy Christiansen and women’s football reporter for the Times and Sunday Times Kit Shepard.
They discuss England’s key players, the ‘group of death’ and the who are the other favourites for the tournament.
England kick of on Saturday with a huge game against France. We'll be back with Izzy and Kit to review the match.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times and welcome to the first of our special shows dedicated to Euro 2025. |
| 0:13.2 | Which players will be the stars in Switzerland, which teams could cause an upset and can England and Serena Vigman triumph once again? |
| 0:22.1 | We'll be answering those questions and loads more on these shows focused on the big women's tournament this summer. I'm Tom |
| 0:27.3 | Clark and joining me on this first preview show, we have the women's football reports for the |
| 0:31.0 | Times and Sunday Times Kit Shepard and I'm delighted to welcome to the game podcast for the first |
| 0:35.6 | time our special guests for Euro |
| 0:37.5 | 2025. She played for Everton, Birmingham, Manchester City and Leon winning the FA Cup, |
| 0:43.1 | women's Super League and the Champions League and won 31 caps for England. Izzy Christensen, |
| 0:48.7 | welcome to the game podcast. Thank you very much. Always nice. Good. Good. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah, you know, Kit, we need to work on your introduction, mate. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm not going to lie. |
| 0:57.1 | It's not quite stacking up quite as well as Izzy's, I've got to say. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, I don't have Champions Leagues and England international appearances in my locker yet. |
| 1:05.4 | Not yet. |
| 1:06.2 | Not yet. |
| 1:06.7 | There's still time. |
| 1:07.7 | For one so young, there's still a lot to achieve. Izzy, we are so excited to have you, so delighted that you're joining us for the tournament. |
| 1:14.6 | You're out in Switzerland already. Me and Kit are still back in London. Kitt's joining you very shortly. |
| 1:19.9 | There's loads and loads for us to talk about. But let's start with England. |
| 1:23.2 | The first half of this show will be all focused on England. And before we get to the squad and what |
| 1:27.7 | we can expect from the tournament, I wanted to ask you about the narrative that has dominated so |
| 1:32.8 | much of this buildup. England's preparations. Players like Mary Earps dropping out of the squad, |
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