Women's Football Weekly: Christmas Special!
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ben Haines, Ellen White, Jen Beattie and Emma Sanders host a Christmas special!
The team do a mid season review and revisit predictions made at the start of the season and whether they expect much to change. Emma gives an insight into what recruitment we could see in the January transfer market, plus a look at the WSL2 with play-off spots up for grabs.
Bristol City manager Charlotte Healy and Newcastle boss Tanya Oxtoby join the pod and share how they are working to get promoted to the WSL. Tanya also shares how important pigs in blanket are to her team!
And who will be crowned the Women’s Football Weekly friends quiz champion?
Timecodes: 01:30 Predictions from start of the season 05:50 Spurs the surprise 07:30 Liverpool and West Ham in danger 15:35 Transfers in Jan 21:25 Bristol City’s Charlotte Healy 29:00 Newcastle boss Tanya Oxtoby 37:30 Friends festive quiz!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | My Christmas Mix is pure 90s festive nostalgia. |
| 0:11.1 | You know, the Christmas songs you listen to on repeat. |
| 0:14.0 | Ho! |
| 0:14.3 | Ho! Ho! No, no, no. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm all about the big hitting Christmas anthems. |
| 0:20.4 | Come on, guys. What about those tunes that really slay? |
| 0:23.7 | It's Christmas kitchen disco season, surely. |
| 0:26.4 | Give me hip-hip-christ bangers every day. |
| 0:28.6 | Those Christmas tracks that are straight out of Lapland. |
| 0:30.9 | Get all kinds of Christmassy. |
| 0:32.6 | Just search Christmas music on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.5 | This is the Football Daily podcast with Ben Haynes. |
| 0:41.1 | Hello Football Daily listeners. Ben Haynes here, bringing you a very special |
| 0:45.1 | women's football weekly episode and I'm alongside Ellen White and Gem Beatty as always. |
| 0:50.0 | And then we've got a very special guest today who is sporting the most wonderful Christmas jumper |
| 0:55.4 | with Women's Football Weekly branding on it |
| 0:57.9 | and that is senior women's football reporter M Sanders. |
| 1:00.7 | Hello, it's absolutely massive. |
| 1:02.2 | I've had some very weird looks around the office. |
| 1:05.6 | I can confirm. |
| 1:07.3 | It is like a 5XL maybe in terms of size. |
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