Women's Football Weekly: Earps, Corsie & glory for the Gunners

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News, Sport

4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ellen White and Ben Haines are at St Georges Park and react to the shock announcement that England goalkeeper Mary Earps is retiring from international football. Ellen shares her view on why now but they also reflect on what Mary did for the women’s game and its profile, particularly for goalkeepers.

Niamh Charles and Keira Walsh share their memories of playing with Mary and her impact off the pitch. They also look ahead to England’s next Nations League games against Portugal and Spain as the Euros approaches.

Ellen and Ben also talk Arsenal winning the Champions League and how Renee Slegers masterminded that huge victory over Barcelona.

Plus Jen Beattie has caught up with her former teammate and Scotland captain Rachel Corsie who has announced her retirement from football this week. Rachel won 154 caps for Scotland and led her country out at their first ever World Cup in 2019 and is part of the Scotland camp for their next Nations League fixtures against Austria and the Netherlands.

00:20 Intro 01:36 Mary Earps retires from England 04:10 Earps statement 10:28 Arsenal win the Champions League! 15:50 How did Arsenal do it? 20:35 Niamh Charles 25:00 Keira Walsh 32:30 Rachel Corsie with Jen

BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries next weekend: Wed 2000 Real Betis v Chelsea in the UEFA Conference League Final Fri 1945 England v Portugal in the UEFA Women’s Nations League Sat 2000 PSG v Inter Milan in the UEFA Champions League Final

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0:00.0	Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to introduce myself.
0:03.7	My name's Stevie Middleton and I'm a BBC Commissioner for a load of sport podcasts.
0:08.4	I'm lucky to do that at the BBC because I get to work with leading journalists, experienced
0:12.2	pundits and the biggest sports stars.
0:14.3	Together we bring you untold stories and fascinating insights straight from the player's mouths.
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0:37.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:41.4	On the Football Daily, the women's football weekly, with Ben Haynes, Ellen White and
0:47.2	Gen Bity.
0:50.2	Welcome to St George's Park.
0:52.3	We're back inside the England campus day prepare for Nations League matches against Portugal and against Spain. But just before we started this episode, we wanted to, on behalf of all of us here at the Football Daily, send our love to everyone in Liverpool after the awful scenes yesterday at the Liverpool Trophy Parade.
1:12.2	And we want to let everyone who is impacted know on what should have been a day of celebration
1:17.3	that you are very much in our thoughts.
1:21.1	Back here at St George's Park, I'm joined as always by England's record goal scorer Ellen White.
1:27.0	How are you, Ellen? I'm very good, Ellen White. How are you, Ellen?
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