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Counter Pressed with Flo Lloyd-Hughes and Friends
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes returns as quiz master for a look back at the highs, lows and Counter Pressed herstory of 2025.
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Jessy Parker Humphreys and Becky Taylor-Gill to discuss the last night of action in the Women’s Champions League league phase. Which teams dropped out? Who made it through to the quarter-finals and who was a complete flop?
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Jessy Parker Humphreys & Becky Taylor-Gill
Producers: Katie Baxter & Flo Lloyd-Hughes
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Gilly Flaherty and Jessy Parker Humprehys to chat through Manchester United’s dramatic 3-3 draw with Spurs. How did Tottenham let a 3-0 lead disappear? We then get into Bunny Shaw’s unstoppable performance against Aston Villa, four goals, and now 103 goals for City in 120 games. How long before she chases down Viv Miedema’s WSL record? Is she the best we’ve ever seen in the league?
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Gilly Flaherty & Jessy Parker Humprehys
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Jessy Parker Humphreys and special guest Tim Stillman from Arseblog to discuss this week’s European fixtures. All three English teams are through to the knockout stages, what do we make of their Champions League performances so far? We then dive into an Arsenal focus with Tim and answer some listener questions.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Jessy Parker Humphreys & Tim Stillman
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Jessy Parker Humphreys and Becky Taylor-Gill to discuss the end of Chelsea’s 34-game unbeaten run in the WSL. After 585 days Chelsea have finally lost a game, we discuss that defeat to Everton, Arsenal’s late win over Liverpool and some mid-table movements.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Jessy Parker Humphreys & Becky Taylor-Gill
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Jessy Parker Humphreys and Becky Taylor-Gill to chat through the final international games of the year, including England’s 2-0 win over Ghana. We then dive into our listener mailbag as we chat through some of your football questions and silly requests.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Jessy Parker Humphreys & Becky Taylor-Gill
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Gilly Flaherty and Jessy Parker Humphreys to discuss England’s 8-0 win against China at Wembley. We also touch on the Nations League final, England’s Under 23s and chat about some other big stories in the international break.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Gilly Flaherty & Jessy Parker Humphreys
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Gilly Flaherty and Jessy Parker Humphreys to recap last week’s Champions League drama. We also dive into the NWSL Championship after Gotham were crowned champions again. We then look ahead to the international break and chat about more talent coming through from England’s Under 23s.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Gilly Flaherty & Jessy Parker Humphreys
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes, Gilly Flaherty and Jessy Parker Humphreys are joined by Nikki Doucet, chief executive of WSL Football. We chat to Nikki about her journey to the role, the big changes that have come this season in the WSL and WSL 2 and the league’s plan for investment. We also touch on 12pm kick offs, media rights, AI and VAR.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Gilly Flaherty, Jessy Parker Humphreys & Nikki Doucet
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Gilly Flaherty and Jessy Parker Humphreys to chat through a great weekend for Manchester City as they extend their lead at the top of the WSL table. City dismantled Manchester United in the derby while both Arsenal and Chelsea dropped points.
Guests: Gilly Flaherty & Jessy Parker Humphreys
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Jessy Parker Humphreys, Becky Taylor-Gill
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Kate Longhurst and Jessy Parker Humphreys to chat through a weekend full of drama. There were controversial calls in Arsenal’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea, but is it really time for VAR in the WSL? We also touch on Manchester United’s defeat to Aston Villa and Manchester City going top of the league.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Kate Longhurst & Jessy Parker Humphreys
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Jessy Parker Humphreys and Becky Taylor-Gill to dive into Mary Earps’ autobiography and its controversial contents. We unpack the trend of leadership books in sport and whether it was the right time for Earps to publish her autobiography.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Jessy Parker Humphreys, Becky Taylor-Gill
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes, Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Gilly Flaherty and Jessy Parker Humphreys to unpack the drama from the release of Mary Earps’ tell all book. Earps faced criticism after extracts were published in The Guardian detailing her disagreement with Sarina Wiegman over Hannah Hampton taking England’s number one goalkeeper spot. What has the reaction been and will Earps recover from this? We then dive into some football, discussing Chelsea’s win against London City Lionesses and Aston Villa’s progress.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Jessy Parker-Humphreys, Gilly Flaherty
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes, Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Kate Longhurst and Jessy Parker-Humphreys to discuss England’s disappointing 2–1 defeat in a friendly against Brazil. We examine Sarina Wiegman’s lack of experimentation and question whether we’ll see more changes in the upcoming game against Australia. The discussion then turns to Jess Fishlock’s remarkable career as she says goodbye to international football.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Kate Longhurst, Jessy Parker-Humphreys
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Jessy Parker Humphreys and Becky Taylor-Gill for a brand new show format as we pick our combined best eleven players in Europe for a new intercontinental competition - think Ryder Cup and Laver Cup. The rules are they have to be current players and you can only pick two max per nation.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Jessy Parker Humphreys, Becky Taylor-Gill
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes, Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Kate Longhurst and Becky Taylor-Gill to chat all things England. We chat through Millie Bright’s retirement decision she becomes the latest senior player to leave Wiegman’s squad. We also answer some of your listener questions and highlight some of the next gen talent.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Kate Longhurst, Becky Taylor-Gill
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes, Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Gilly Flaherty and Kate Longhurst to chat through Arsenal getting back to winning ways under Renee Slegers. Then we dive into issues lower down the table, the managers under pressure and the clubs coasting at the bottom of the WSL.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Gilly Flaherty & Kate Longhurst
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Kate Longhurst and Jessy Parker Humphreys to chat through the opening round of games in the new league phase of the Champions League.
Arsenal started their defence with a disappointing defeat to Lyon, and Chelsea ended up grabbing a point against Twente. Meanwhile Manchester United get their first ever main draw win.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Kate Longhurst & Jessy Parker Humphreys
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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Flo Lloyd-Hughes is joined by Gilly Flaherty and Jessy Parker Humphreys to talk through a big weekend in the WSL title race. Arsenal’s dramatic 3-2 defeat to Manchester City puts them five points behind Chelsea who stay top after drawing at United. We analyse all four of those side’s weekends. We then answer some questions about teams further down the table.
Host: Flo Lloyd-Hughes
Guests: Gilly Flaherty and Jessy Parker Humphreys
Producers: Flo Lloyd-Hughes & Katie Baxter
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I seriously need to stop hearing excuses for WSL sides when it comes to tiredness and minutes played. Liga F teams/Spanish players have a far bigger claim to those excuses, and look at their results.
As someone who has no idea what this is about, this is a fascinating listen. I feel like I'm the mystery solver, just trying to piece this thing together.