Women's Football Weekly: Lionesses squad & the relegation battle

Football Daily

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Ellen White, Jen Beattie and Ben Haines react to England manager Sarina Wiegman’s latest squad to face Belgium in their Nations League double header. Fran Kirby returns while Brighton’s Maisie Symonds gets her first senior call-up.

Ellen gives an insight into how you need to take your opportunity when you get the England call and Jen also shares what it’s like when you aren’t playing as much for your country.

The team talk Chelsea and Manchester City as the two sides head into their fourth and final meeting with Chelsea taking a last minute victory at the weekend. The bottom of the table is tightening up with Aston Villa and Crystal Palace battling it out to stay in the WSL. Jen and Ellen give their opinion on who they think will stay up.

00:20 Intro 01:45 England squad & Sarina Wiegman 06:20 Maisie Symonds call up 08:10 Jen & Ellen experiences being dropped 11:11 Nikita Parris 20:30 Champions League 29:25 Relegation

BBC Sounds / 5 Live commentaries this week: Wed 2000 Arsenal v Real Madrid in UEFA Women’s Champions League Thu 2000 Chelsea v Man City in UEFA Women’s Champions League PROMO CLIPS

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favorite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.9	Like Friday Night Comedy, where you can hear the latest episode seven days earlier,
0:11.0	and a week is an extremely long time in politics.
0:14.4	Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:17.4	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:22.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:27.4	On the Football Daily, the women's football weekly, with Ben Haynes, Ellen White and Jen Beatty.
0:35.3	Hello and welcome to the women's football weekly, if it's your first time listening.
0:40.1	Welcome aboard with me, as always, every week, two absolute legends of the game,
0:44.4	Ellen White and Gem Beatty.
0:46.3	Els, how are you?
0:47.1	I'm very well.
0:47.9	How are you?
0:48.4	Yeah, excellent.
0:49.4	Really, really good.
0:50.0	Jen Beatty.
0:50.6	How are you in Glasgow today?
0:52.2	I'm great and the sun shining in Glasgow so I've had an
0:55.2	amazing couple of days yeah home with mum and dad so it's been great fun. How have you managed to
0:59.0	align that on the Venn diagram back in the country and the sun shining at the same time? That
1:03.6	shaded area is like tiny. Yeah I know it never really happens but honestly when Glasgow and the sun's
1:10.1	out it's one of the best cities.
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