Women's Football Weekly: Fran Kirby on Leah Williamson's Lionesses return!
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Ben Haines and England Women’s record goalscorer Ellen White are joined by England and Chelsea’s Fran Kirby. Fran talks the England squad announcement including the return of Leah Williamson, and we hear from the England head coach Sarina Wiegman as the team prepare for friendlies against Austria and Italy.
Fran also reflects on the FA Cup, her season so far and Chelsea’s big game against Manchester City in the WSL on Friday.
Timecodes: 0:10 Intro 03:28 England squad announcement 06:25 Sarina Wiegman 10:10 Leah Williamson 18:50 FA Cup 30:05 Chelsea 34:30 WSL weekend fixtures
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| 0:44.4 | Women's Football Weekly |
| 0:46.7 | with Ben Haynes and Ellen White. |
| 0:49.4 | On the Football Daily Podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the Women's Football Weekly, no WSL at the weekend as it was the fifth round of the FA Cup. |
| 0:59.0 | So we'll be getting into all of the headlines from that. |
| 1:01.0 | It's also England's Squad |
| 1:02.5 | announcement day. We'll be hearing from Serena Vigman. |
| 1:05.2 | And what a guest host we've got of us this week. |
| 1:07.9 | Chelsea and England's Fran Kirby with us with me as always though, |
| 1:11.7 | every week. And I think I'm right in saying Ellen three times |
| 1:15.6 | FA cup winner Ellen White I want to say that's right might be wrong no it is right |
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