Women's Football Weekly: Managerial mayhem and no more WSL relegation?

Football Daily

BBC

Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News, Sport

4.3 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Ellen White, Jen Beattie and Ben Haines examine whether the WSL could remove relegation as a way of expanding the division.

They're joined by BBC Sport's Emma Sanders to explain the proposals that are under consideration.

They also look at two days of managerial departures in the WSL, with Liverpool and Crystal Palace both changing their head coaches.

TIMECODES

00:14 Ellen White and her legacy cap 04:10 A dramatic return for the WSL 11:25 What next for Liverpool after Matt Beard's departure 18:28 Crystal Palace replace Laura Kaminski 23:15 Relegation and expansion in the WSL

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0:00.0	Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, so I'd like to tell you where you'll find more just like it.
0:05.5	I'm Izzy Lee Poulton, an assistant commissioner for BBC Sounds, which means I'm involved in the whole podcast making process.
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0:50.3	On the Football Daily, the Women's Football Weekly with Ben Haynes, Ellen White and Jen Beatty.
0:52.3	Hello everyone. Now, the Women's Football Weekly has been going for just over a year, not quite long enough for testimonials or probably not long enough for us to kick off with the whole legacy caps thing, although maybe we should start giving them out for guests as they come on.
1:05.5	But if you are the lioness's record goal score, Ellen White, you do get your own legacy cap at Wembley at Pitchside in a repeat of the World Cup
1:13.9	final going on behind you.
1:15.2	How was that experience?
1:16.8	Yeah, I just waited for the best, biggest game possible at Wembley.
1:19.9	Did you put pause on it?
1:21.0	That would do.
1:22.8	World Cup final repeat.
1:24.1	That one sounds good.
1:25.9	Was it good fun?
1:26.9	Yeah, it was good.
1:27.6	It was nice to be there and see some old football friends.
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