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Football Daily

Women's Euros: Final fever, fan tales & Beth Mead

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News, Sport

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

With the Euro 2025 final fast approaching, Katie Smith is joined by Maisie Adam and Rachel Brown-Finnis to look ahead to England v Spain.

Maisie reflects on her Swiss adventure and completes her Lionesses name challenge, while Katie speaks to Beth Mead and England super fans about the team’s chances of retaining their title.

01:58 – Rachel and Maisie on their favourite bits of Switzerland 06:28 – England super fans share their tournament stories 19:37 – Katie chats to Beth Mead ahead of the final 22:59 – Reflections on the growth of women’s football 31:04 – Where England can exploit Spain’s weaknesses

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's not funny, it's true.

0:05.2

Lily Allen and Makita Oliver.

0:07.8

Um, Keats, I've got some questions for you on BBC Sounds.

0:11.4

Tell me what you've enjoyed about our podcast so far.

0:13.8

I like that you've got more and more comfortable in this space and I've watched you show all parts of yourself.

0:19.5

We've both cried.

0:20.7

Miss me with Lily Allen and Makita Oliver.

0:23.6

We're just us having a shot.

0:25.2

Feels like we've been doing it forever.

0:27.3

We kind of have.

0:30.0

Listen on BBC Sounds.

0:33.9

BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

0:38.6

The Football Daily Podcast with Katie Smith at UEFA Women's Euro 2025.

0:46.2

Hello and welcome to the Football Daily podcast.

0:49.5

We are here in Switzerland live in Basel, just over 24 hours away from England, taking on Spain in the final of Euro 2025.

0:59.0

I've got comedian and England fan, Maisie Adam, next to me, and you walk to both Germany and France today, Maisie.

1:06.0

Yeah, in that space of an hour up into three countries. It's mad.

1:10.0

Nice. I've had a lovely day. Right little jet setter on foot. Also with us, former England goalkeeper Rachel Brown-Finnis here in our cafe setting in Basel. Have you been in the river? Yeah, Rachel. Not here. I haven't in Basel. I have in Bern. Yeah. But I pledge that should England win that it'll be. And I've just seen some people walk past with, you know, the Winklefishers, which are the dry bags you can buy here. Oh yeah. Shaped as footballs. It's like going to get one of those. So they're the dry bags that actors float. So you might be in with our five live breakfast presenter, Jeanette Quatchy then, who's also been told of England win on Sunday tomorrow, she'll be in the river. I mean, I've been in already. So if people don't know, this is a famous kind of commuting part of the Basel City Centre where people get in the water with their dry bags and float home from work. I've certainly seen you. Floating to Germany. It's wild though, isn't it?

2:01.9

Yeah, I went in the river in Zurich. It was lovely. So you've been in Bern, Rach. In the river in Bern, in many a lake in Zurich. I've been in in Zurich. And then, yeah, I reckon if we win, we've got us surely all jump in, definitely. Yeah, absolutely. Well, I think that leads us on nicely to talk about the experience so far in Switzerland.

2:00.7

We're going to get into all the football side of things, England against Spain, and we've got some lovely England fans joining us in a couple of minutes as well. But what have the two of you made of the last few weeks here in Switzerland? I'm not sure if people quite knew what kind of host country it would be. I've absolutely loved it.

2:35.9

I've been to Bern, St. Gallen, Zurich, Basel, Geneva.

2:41.1

So when you sat on the tram, one thing that strikes me, you're hearing conversations.

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