Women's Football Weekly: NYE Special
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Ellen White, Jen Beattie and Ben Haines host a New Year’s eve special and are joined by England and Washington Spirit’s Esme Morgan. The team chat how Esme has got on in America playing in the NWSL including making it to the championship final, losing out to Orlando Pride.
Plus England under 17’s head coach Natalie Henderson talks getting to the World Cup semi-finals and ambitions for the next generation of England players. Natalie also shares her journey in coaching including working with the Newcastle academy.
Demi Stokes joins the pod to talk about her big move to newly promoted Championship side Newcastle United and how she has found the move. Plus Demi chats motherhood and her passion for cooking!
Timecodes: 00:20 Intro & Esme Morgan returns! 02:00 Natalie Henderson 15:00 Esme & why the NWSL 22:20 Jen & Esme on playing in US 26:30 Demi Stokes 34:30 Esme on Euros draw 40:30 2025 hopes for women’s football!
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| 0:05.2 | My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland. |
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| 0:44.3 | On the Football Daily, the Women's Football Weekly, with Ben Haynes, Ellen White and Jen Beatty. |
| 0:52.9 | Hello everybody, welcome to a very special edition of the Women's Football Weekly, a New Year's Eve special as we head into 2025. |
| 1:02.1 | And it's a huge year for women's football too with euros in Switzerland this summer with me to go through it all. |
| 1:08.7 | Ellen White. How are you? |
| 1:10.0 | I'm very well. How are you, Ben? |
| 1:11.6 | Yes, very good. Very excited today because we've got some amazing guests. |
| 1:14.8 | Jen Beattie is going to be fashionably late to our New Year's Eve party. |
| 1:18.0 | Of course she is. |
| 1:19.0 | But you've got another pair of hands with you to help us along without Jen for the first bit. |
| 1:24.4 | I have it. It's so nice to have someone in person, so I got the lovely |
| 1:28.6 | Esme Morgan here all the way from Washington. Welcome back, Esme. Fresh off the plane as well. |
| 1:35.1 | Yeah, straight off the plane just a couple of hours ago, so higher car picked up and a whizzed |
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