Euro 2022 Rewind: THAT Stunning Backheel, A Private Chat With The Boss & The Brilliance Of Beth Mead

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2:41Rachel Daly:Hello! Welcome to the Racist Football Daily Brightness. Things are heating up in today's episode of our Euro 2022 Rewind miniseries and we're looking back at the semi-final. If you didn't catch the quarterfinal episode or any others in this miniseries, do have a listen to those as well. You'll find them all on the Daily Brighters feed. Right, so we're going to pick up after we beat Spain in the quarterfinal. We are now onto the semi-final but this is everything leading up to that game. Rach, take us back. I think... she's in the background everyone honestly shut up

3:25Rachel Daly:i think like it was a bit of a blur after the quarters because like i said last time i remember obviously it was such a tight game and i was like those moments like where i sat there on the like when i was come off and i was on the bench and i was like i'm not i'm not going home so we need to win this game and then i remember getting back to the hotel being like i couldn't believe it but then i think it that was like the turning point for me where i was like we are winning this tournament like i'm not going home now like i'm not ready for it um but i remember us getting back to the lindsbury that night and i swear we just sat there and had a little fan of me and you and we were just like yeah what that was mad i just felt that whole tournament though like just looking back at every game like ben we were saying before every time we think back to that euro everything was just a bit of a blur and it's like we're in this bubble and you didn't really have like a super high but you never had a super low like we always just stayed like we just stayed the same but there were there were so many moments where me and rachel just sit there and be like holy shit we could get to the final and we said it so many times and we that was one of the moments after the quarters where we just sat there and we're like all right we're gonna win and we just kept saying like whether you say it in your little groups or we said it to each other that was always the mini conversation like we're gonna win and there were no like there was never any panic like ever and it sounds mental to to say that but we just it was just such a bizarre feeling like it was it's really hard to like explain did you feel like off the back of the spain game that you kind of have a almost like a a closeness that maybe you don't have a team before when you go through one of those games where you're like oh my god we've actually gone and chuck spain out the tournament and suddenly everyone is just a little bit tighter.

5:09It just felt a bit invincible. It felt like no matter whether they attack down the left, the right, it just felt like everyone were unstoppable. It just felt like every time we attacked, we were going to score. That's how I felt. Even if teams were having... I remember there were waves in that game where Spain were like, attack, attack, attack. And it just... Don't we know about that? Yeah, we do. We know about that. but at no point did we ever like panic or think oh crap like something drastically needs to change like it was just so like calm and we just executed what we needed to do do you know what else i

5:46Rachel Daly:thought like going into that was like it was weird it was like a sense of home because obviously for you it was home going sheffield but we'd been in that bubble in london yeah apart from the first game at old trafford then it was like london london london and i was like obviously all our families were traveling and stuff but i was like that's so nice to just be able to like almost just get out of the south yeah just like have a whole new adventure for a minute like it was like we were going somewhere completely different and i remember i was going sheffield and we both were just like oh this is nice and we love bram all lane like that's such a sick stadium like yeah i love like old school stadiums and i don't know i remember like getting into the ground of there and i was just like this sick like it's so cool it's almost like you felt like you're in a different because you've been at the amex for a couple of times hadn't we like we've been in like big stadiums and then we went to like bram all in and everything just feels really tight and like close and like it just felt warm like it felt like it's just all england yeah that is like so amazing for you guys to have that experience yeah at the same time you didn't get to do that thing of like right we'll just nip down to go and see everyone at home right because at this point you're not able to spend time with your family in the same way yeah but i think it was just a nice feeling knowing that like they're close yeah like i remember sitting in your room mills and we were just like oh it's nice isn't it like you just felt like even you just go down in the hotel or whatever and you just hear a northern accent i don't know it just it just felt and it's not even just because we're northern i think it just felt like going to a different place like we just were out of the south for a minute like we were so used to like getting the bus from the lensbury to brighton and back brighton and back like it was just so like routiney that it was like quite nice to be like right we're going on a little adventure now like we're taking this somewhere else and just so happened to be obviously minnie's hometown and like close to my family do you know what's quite nice is you guys seem to have had these um these moments where you just kind of hit the pause button for like five minutes after games where you just get after all the craziness and the madness where you get just a little window where you're like able to sit with each other and be like that was mad oh we would always have a cup of tea we'd either have a fanta a fanta after games or we'd always go to rachel would always come to my room and we'd we'd literally sit there and analyze the game and we'd sit and have either a cup of tea or a fanta and that's what we would do we'd go and obviously eat and then we'd be like right debrief and then we'd go and have a debrief yeah when we debrief the quarterfinal I was like right that's me done I'll never play football again that's it I'm out of the team I won't play in the semis I'll be out of the team I'm just going to probably just retire tonight because there's no point in me even trying I'm not going on social media I'm not going to be looking at anything everyone's just going to be slating me well I'm not even a left back anyway so but then I remember it was like quite early on in the game against Sweden and I can't remember it was Yeah, you nearly did your damn knee.

8:25You nearly did your knee. Do you remember that?

8:27Rachel Daly:No, that was against Norway. That was disgusting. Are you sure? I thought you did it in the Sweden game. No, it was Norway, because I actually saw a clip of it the other day. That was horrible. No, but I remember, like, thinking going into that game, I was obviously a little bit nervous, because I was like, I've just not really had a very good game. They're probably going, get out that left-back, you shit. And I remember, I think it was maybe Jakobsen, I think, but I'd, like, lured her in and done my croix, and then just bombed it down the line, and I thought, yes, I'm back, I'm back. I'm back, she's done the crime.

8:57Because I wonder, Rach, whether maybe you would, like, when you're waiting for Serena to say the team, are you then getting nervous in the build-up? Are you like...

9:05Rachel Daly:Well, I had a conversation, I did have a really nice conversation with her after the game, didn't I, Millie? Like, the next day I went for a walk with her at the Lensbury. Ben, she was nervous the minute she came off the pitch after Spain. We debriefed it for hours and hours and hours and I had to keep saying, you'll be in. It was less about, like, being in, but more about, like, I just felt like shit because I was like, obviously, that goal that they scored was largely down to me and my poor defending. But I just remember speaking to her and I was like, look, can I just have an honest conversation with you here and now?

9:32Rachel Daly:Because I feel like shit. Obviously, I'm absolutely excited. We're still here. We won. The team were absolutely incredible. Individually, you know that my standards are high. So when I'm underperforming, I just maybe need, can you help me? And she was just like, why are you stressing out? like you had maybe one mistake two mistakes whatever she was like but just like it was just like nice to make me feel like I wasn't going crazy and she was like watch it back like you won't you're like you're not going to be that hard on yourself and it was it was a really nice conversation because it just sort of like settled my mind a little bit to be like okay I'm not the worst player in the world anymore but it's amazing though that's I suppose that's I suppose that's what the best coaches do right they know what you need yeah it was it was really helpful because it wasn't like oh you start the next game anything like that and nor did i even need that because like it's it's for the team it was more just to sort of like reset my brain to be like am i okay or am i like really really shit well is this like what you're saying about you overthinking stuff was your brain just going on over time you're just literally running over things and and also i mean everyone does this right particularly people that overthink but you don't just overthink think by thinking about the incidents over and over again you start thinking about all the worst stuff about yourself yeah oh god you make it like 10 times worse whoa did you just see that lightning then no that's probably a good time for us to take a break listen listen listen oh yeah come in i love storms can we just take a quick break because i just need to get my washing in sorry guys quick break brb this episode is brought to you by tinder people think they're to just find the one mill but I think there's so much more to it than that we spoke about it before about you know you have a soulmate in life but you have a soul best friend and you're my soul best friend as you know I don't think it should be looked upon as just a dating app you might want just a companion or you know you could have an unexpected friendship blossom I think it's quite small-minded just to think of it as oh I have to find like a it's a relationship I'm looking for like no it's you could find a friendship and that could be someone that you rely on for the rest of your lives.

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13:42Rachel Daly:Welcome back to the rest is football daily brightness. Let's get back into it. Our semi-final against Sweden in Euro 2022 is about to kick off. Dun, dun, dun. They had a few chances early doors. I remember it being intense, like dominant, but intense. First 15, 20 minutes, they had the foothold of the game and they were a bit like on top. I think after about 20, it started to settle and then 35 or something, Beth scored and that was it. We knew we only needed that first goal to like... Yeah. Because we were okay, we were getting into it, but we were a couple of nervy chances in the first... We were defending wave after wave.

14:20And going back to that point is we were very comfortable, like don't get me wrong, we had to defend, but we were still comfortable in that moment. And if you need to put it in the stands, put it in the stands. that's one thing I loved in that year we did not care if you need to put it 60 yards into the stands just get rid of it like get the danger away and that's something I think we did really well

14:39Rachel Daly:yeah I think that just sort of like lifted us it was like the lift that we needed that best scored and it was almost like it was like a sense of comfortability it was like okay we've scored now we're fine like we're fine and everyone just sort of don't you feel as well that Cosmeido was on fire like that whole tournament when we just kept saying give her the ball give her the ball give her the ball give her the ball and then you're just waiting for her to score or waiting for her to provide an assist like she had the best tournament ever like every game she was outstanding like solid and yeah it did give us that sense of okay one's in the net we'll roll on from here now do you think it was the best atmosphere of the tournament because I think I'd chuck it out there I know Wembley was special no it was a really good vibe there it was very like loud and like intense but that's what I mean it's like intimate as well it's like a bit closer like it's like a proper old school football feel stadium like it was I loved it I absolutely loved it Do you remember everyone banging on the as you were walking out everyone like banging on the stuff there's that sound of like people banging on the stadium it's amazing It was so loud like because it's a compact stadium though you feel like the fans are like on top of you like they're literally there but that's one thing that we love as players it was sick it was like probably one of the best games as well just because like atmosphere like performance 4-0.

15:59Rachel Daly:Also, that was Alessia's back heel, right? No joke. Ridiculous. When that happened, I was like, has she just back heeled that through Lindar's legs? Like, what the... To make it... Was it 3-0 then? Yeah. Yeah, that was third one. I was like, how have you just done that? Like, that was iconic. Like, that you should... That should be hung up somewhere. Like, I can't pronounce that word. In the loo... In the loo? In the loo, in the loo. Hang it in the loo. Hang it up in my toilet, to be honest. Hang it in loo, get it in loo, love. Do you remember when we'd scored the fourth goal? I can't remember if you, I'm sure you were there.

16:39Rachel Daly:I ran past Leah, right? And I was like, we're winning 4-0, what the fuck? And she was just like, what the fuck? How are we winning 4-0? Like, I remember just having one of those moments. It is, because when it goes three, you're thinking, holy shit, we're in the final. and then it goes four and you're like, oh my God, we're definitely in the final. I ran past her and I went, I went, can't wait to sing River Deep Mountain High when we get in the changing rooms at four nil. I was like, Ray, shut the fuck up and concentrate. And for anyone listening, that is one song we played every single game after we won River Deep Mountain High.

17:10Rachel Daly:And I remember us doing it in that changing room because it was really small, wasn't it? Like really tight and we were all up on our seats. You had like a really good mix of music as well, right? It was like a proper mixture of music you listened to. it wasn't just like one part of the music best playlist in that Euros everyone was accommodated for but we had like a team song there's actually a video which we can't show because there's a lot of nudity in it but there's a lot of nudity but it was me, Ellen, Rachel, Mido what were we singing when we were going like side to side? I don't know but I've got it on my phone we've literally we'll find out the song I won't share the video because you know for obvious reasons but yeah there were just like shit like that happening in the change room after every win like the team was just so like tight and together and they're like the best memories when you look back at tournaments, stuff like that.

17:56I've got that sense of feeling

17:58Rachel Daly:that that's like how the team is now though. Like I get that feeling. Did you see the video the other day? I love that. Everyone like celebrating it, no matter whether you start, play, don't play. I get that feeling from the group this time around and like that, nothing fills me. Like if they were to go out the other night, like nothing would fill me with more pride than like seeing them be together because that's like, it's so hard to come by getting a group of 23 players to be that close and that tight-knit through such a long period of time, no matter what. And that's what ultimately won us our tournament.

18:28For sure. But like, and I do think, again, this is like an appreciation for like subs and for players that don't play as much. To be able to cherish those moments and join in and like be positive is so hard because you're so disheartened that you've not got on. But ultimately tournament football is about the bigger picture. You all get a medal if you win. And hats off to people. Like when I look back to the Euro 2022, too the subs were unbelievable the for me the winners of the tournament because they were positive after every single game no matter how little they played or whether they got on didn't get on they were the first ones singing and dancing and it's those moments where you think holy shit we're like a tight knit group look how happy everyone is like we're gonna win it we're gonna win it together and it's not it's not easy like it's hard you're disheartened of course everyone's competitive everyone wants to play everyone wants to win but and then in that moment we were in the final oh bosh

19:21Rachel Daly:so sick can't wait to talk about that one but for now no more that's it for another episode of the rest of this football daily brightness next time on our Euro 2022 rewind mini series we relive the final itself certainly one we're looking forward to and we hope you are as well till then goodbye from me bye from me

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