Women's Football Weekly: Pitch problems and Bompastor's winning instinct

Football Daily

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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ben Haines, Ellen White and Jen Beattie review Chelsea's win in the League Cup final, and assess where this leaves them ahead of their next three matches against Manchester City between now and next Thursday.

There's also an interview with Chelsea's Sonia Bompastor on why results are more important than performances at this stage of the season.

They also look at the complaints about the pitch during Saturday's final at Pride Park, and ask whether the League Cup final should move to Wembley.

And will Birmingham City be promoted to the WSL? Amy Merricks, head coach of the Championship leaders, joins the pod.

TIMECODES 03:00 Chelsea v Man City: Part One 11:55 Interview with Sonia Bompastor 22:30 Crystal Palace and the relegation battle 26:05 Birmingham City's promotion push

Commentaries on 5 Live/BBC Sounds: Wednesday: Manchester City v Chelsea - Women's Champions League (8pm) Thursday: Greece v Scotland - Men's Nations League play-off (7:45pm) Friday: England v Albania - Men's World Cup 2026 qualifying (7:45pm) Sunday: Manchester City v Chelsea - Women's Super League (2:30pm)

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0:00.0	Football, a game of passion, rivalry and loyalty.
0:05.0	But decades ago, beneath the cheers and the chance,
0:09.0	lay a different kind of warfare called hooliganism.
0:13.0	On a match day, everyone was your enemy.
0:15.0	We'll uncover the brutal, bloody battles where punching below the belt was a way of life.
0:19.0	It was just a die of my him. Gangster presents hooligans.
0:22.6	They were destroying the football club.
0:24.8	The game I won't.
0:25.9	Listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:30.8	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:35.3	On the Football Daily, the women's football weekly with Ben Haynes, Ellen White and Jen Beattie.
0:43.6	Welcome along to the women's football weekly.
0:46.4	It's a podcast of table-toppers and leaders today.
0:49.3	Chelsea Boss, Sonia Bumpur's door, will be on the pod a little bit later on.
0:52.8	Head coach of championship leaders, Birmingham. Amy Merrick will be with us two plus part one of the four-part series between Chelsea and Man City to get into.
1:02.2	With Chelsea coming out on top in the League Cup final before the Champions League and the WSL clashes to come too.
1:09.4	And on the pod today, as always,
1:11.6	and this time with a combined nine League Cup winners medals between them,
1:15.4	LN. White and Gem BT.
1:16.7	And I am going to put you on the spot to begin with.
1:19.3	I hadn't give you warning of this before the pod.
1:22.1	So apologies for that.
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