Women's Football Weekly: WSL is back & captain Katrina Gorry
Football Daily
BBC
4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ellen White, Jen Beattie and Ben Haines are joined by West Ham captain and Matilda Katrina Gorry. Katrina gives an open and honest reflection on challenges she has faced on and off the field, including struggling with her mental health.
Ellen and Katrina talk motherhood and how that has shaped how she approaches the game and in her role as captain. Ellen also shares how she decided to have children post football and what considerations she had to think about when making that choice.
The WSL returns this weekend and Ellen and Jen give their views on moments that could define the season. Plus the team chat the WSL hall of fame latest inductees: Steph Houghton, Alex Scott, Gilly Flaherty. and Rebecca Welch.
Warning: This episode contains discussions about eating disorders. If you or someone you know is in need of help, you can find links to organisations who can provide help and support at: www.bbc.co.uk/actionline
Timecodes: 00:20 Intro 03:00 Defining moments so far in the WSL 09:20 Katrina Gorry 30:30 Relegation zone 32:00 WSL half of fame 35:00 FA Cup draw
BBC Sounds / 5 Live Premier League commentaries this week:
Wed 15 Jan 2000 Arsenal v Tottenham on 5 Live Wed 15 Jan 1930 Everton v Aston Villa on 5 Sports Extra Wed 15 Jan 1930 Leicester v Crystal Palace on BBC Sport website Wed 15 Jan 1930 Newcastle v Wolves on BBC Sport website Thu 16 Jan 2000 Man Utd v Southampton on 5 Live Thu 16 Jan 1930 Ipswich v Brighton & Hove on 5 Sports Extra Sat 18 Jan 1500 Brentford v Liverpool on 5 Live Sat 18 Jan 1730 Arsenal v Aston Villa on 5 Live Sun 19 Jan 1400 Manchester United v Brighton & Hove Albion on 5 Live Sun 19 Jan 1630 Ipswich Town v Manchester City on 5 Live Sun 19 Jan 1830 Manchester City v Manchester United (WSL) on 5 Sports Extra
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| 0:37.7 | On the Football Daily, the Women's Football Weekly, with Ben Haynes, Ellen White and Jen Beatty. |
| 0:45.6 | Hello everybody, welcome back to the women's football weekly and the first one of 2025. |
| 0:51.6 | And we're all in the same country, which really lovely hello jem v t and ellen white |
| 0:55.5 | how are you both good thank you how are you been very good else how are you very good thank you |
| 1:01.0 | happy new year is it too late to say happy new year no all of january i think all of january if i haven't |
| 1:06.6 | seen someone in january yet i'll still say yeah but But I'll do the, what Ellen's just done exactly |
| 1:11.3 | that. Is it still okay? Is it still acceptable? How's your check lag? I'm okay. You know what? I'm just |
| 1:19.7 | getting on with it at this point. It's just been like, I can't, I don't want to mourn about it |
| 1:23.9 | anymore. It's fine. We move. Also on also on top of that how was do you remember else we |
| 1:28.6 | were talking before about whether we'd be any good in terms of like training on your own or training |
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