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1:38Hello everyone and welcome to the Rest is Football Daily Brightness Q &A episode. For this episode we actually have the questions pre-recorded. We've been out and about during the Euros supporting the Lionesses and while we've been there we've been gathering questions from the fans. We've been to Box Park in Croydon, the Buckingham Palace, Homecoming and a few watch parties. So let's get into the first question. Out of the two of them, which ones celebrated harder after the last Euros? I don't think you could say either or. I think we both partied extremely hard. I'd say probably you because you were thrown up in the back of the tax.

2:14Yeah, but you got your foot run over, so I think that explains a lot. Yeah, I don't think it was any... I think we were both highly intoxicated and we both had the best night. And to be fair, yeah, we did everything together, so it weren't like I went out separate to you. As always, if I drank, Rach drank. If she had a shot, I had a shot. So we literally were like attached by the hip. That's what we are. That's our friendship. So yeah, if I'm getting wasted, Rach is getting wasted. Simple as. I think we're both leading the party though. I'd like to say that much. I do remember being on a pole at some point.

2:50I do remember. I have the video of you on the pole. That won't surface. Is that your next adventure? Oh God, imagine. People would pay to not go. So yeah, we're on par with both party animals, basically. Next question. What was it like watching from the other side and not the pitch? What was the whole mood like watching from home? I think for me, it was very different. I think we've spoke about this in previous episodes, haven't we? It's definitely a different side, but I actually enjoyed it. I think it was probably a bit different from me to you, but I just actually felt like a fan. Yeah. So it's nice to celebrate as a fan, but also having that close bond with most of the people there and knowing what they're going through.

3:35You're almost like an inside fan. Yeah, it is weird. You can't help but see things as a player as well. Straight away, we texted and was like, oh my God, do you remember when we were getting on the ball site and we were leaving? Do you remember when we arrived at the team hotel? But yeah, I think even obviously the position that I was in, I probably like made myself view it as a fan. And while there's certain aspects of it that you view as a player and you're, you know, you're analysing the game and you understand what the players are feeling day to day and in different moments. But yeah, I can honestly say like I just allowed myself to strip everything back in life, forget football and just watch it as a fan.

4:15and I think it was really nice to see the youngsters coming through. I've said it a lot, but that is a really proud moment when you've been a part of a squad and you've helped these players and seen the struggles and then to see them on the biggest stage and you're playing in the final and then to win. It's a really proud moment. Even though you're not there, you still feel a part of it and a part of their journeys as well. But it was incredible and it was nice to see all the hype as well because we don't get to see that when we're in tournaments, do we? like we had no idea what was going off i liked um you know like going into like a pub and it's all over the walls like i've never seen that before like people are watching it and it's like yeah you see like watch parties getting announced at like your local pub and stuff and you're like what like i've never seen any of that so it was different we never knew it existed and that even in the last year i was like everyone was like oh my god like families used to be i remember our mums in that group like girls it's going wild this is happening that's happening we were like really like is it really and then i remember when we came out and we were like holy shit like it's massive so it was really really nice to see like that that side of things for sure and as much as we'd all love to be playing like it was a really really nice experience so yeah next question do you think we can do it three times in a row don't see why not i mean i don't like to don't like to put all my cards on the table at once but never say never eh yeah we've set the tone now the The bar's high, but I think the players in England are going to continue to grow and learn and mould into the absolute best.

5:46I think, yeah, I don't see why we can't, but a bit early to be talking about that, I think. Got a World Cup in between there. I was going to say World Cup, plenty of holidays, plenty of rest, plenty of competitions with the clubs and staying in form and a million other things. So I think it's too far away to say just yet, but I think the mentality will be, that's the England mentality is to win. That's a standard now. So, yeah, never say never. Next. As obviously players that have obviously been part of it and obviously stepped away, what's their role now as sort of legends within the game? Because obviously now it's about inspiring the next generation.

6:24You know, my daughter, you know, could be a next lioness. So what do they see their role now and how do they sort of carry on inspiring that next generation? What a lovely question. yeah that was really nice actually I really like that and also his t-shirt is sick I remember that kit yeah so I seen it straight away I remember it I had that kit yeah it was it was sick I had Bex 10 on mine I remember it was gold on the back it was sick anyway the question yeah I think for us I think obviously we're still playing so we've got a natural role to inspire by playing at club level um but I think on the international scene it's like we always say that once you're Once a Lioness, always a Lioness.

7:08And kids are going to look up to us regardless of whether we're playing for Villa, Chelsea or England. So I think for us, it's just keep pushing our messaging, our positive messaging out on social media and our platforms and getting involved with the community. And yeah, keep driving for young girls and even boys to get involved in football and follow their dreams. I think we've got a massive platform to do that. Yeah, I think Rach pretty much nailed it, to be honest. the only thing that I would add is for us we are still playing so it's to keep enjoying the game I think and that has been the best thing in women's football is you've seen players thrive because we love the game like our love for the sport our love for winning our passion to make things better to make the country better to make schools better I think that drive as you know that has all been the most important part and because we love it so much you see that when we're expressive on the pitch and you know the love for the game gives us that um motivation to make sure that you know when we're all kind of boots are hung up and done the next generation have things a lot better off and it's to create that mentality in the in the youngsters like you pass the baton on but the job's never done I think that's installing that's a really good point I think that we've always said Mill like we want to leave the game in a better place than when we found it and I think we continue to drive standards and keep pushing for more.

8:30I think we always say, I feel like we always say this in our interviews, but it couldn't be more true. Like we want the next generation to have everything that we didn't have, access to everything that they want. And you're seeing it change. There's still a lot, there's still a long way to go. We know there's room to grow, but I think it's in a good place at the minute and just got to keep pushing for more. But also then to then carry that mentality on and then them to make sure that they do something different for the next generation after them. I think that's what I mean. the job's never done and our role is probably being senior players and still in the game is educating the youngsters and making them realise that what you have now, it was never before and it's not to harp on about it, but it's to respect it so that we always keep pushing for more and I think that's such an important mentality and focus in the game that eventually, years and years and years down the line hopefully, we don't ever have to keep badgering on about things and breaking barriers and and almost like begging for facilities and stuff like that.

9:26But until we get there, everyone has a responsibility and it's now educating that next generation to step up, you know, into those roles, whether you're sat in meetings, demanding things and, hey, this ain't good enough. We need this. Like, we want to be the best. Like, it doesn't come without hard conversation. So I think we're trying to educate the youngsters in that, but also we're still playing. I still want to break boundaries and break records. and by doing that you scream from the rooftops how important women's football is and how amazing it is by being successful. Exactly. Good question.

9:59Like that one. If you couldn't play for the clubs that you play for, what team would you want to play for and why? Oh, God, this is a hard question. I mean, can I say something really low down in the league or do I have to be in the WSL? She's going to Leeds. She's off to Leeds. Leeds, Leeds, Leeds. Can I play for Leeds, please? If it was in the WSL, I'd probably say Chelsea because you just win all the time. I'm not playing for any other team in the WSL, so I'm taking that to my damn grave, let me tell you. I can't. I've been at a club too long where the rivalry is ingrained in me. Like, I could never.

10:37But you could come to Villa and play with me. I could come to Villa. Villa would be the only exception if I got to play with you. That would be it. Exactly. I'll go Chelsea, you go to Villa, but we'll have a crossover. Yeah, but no one else. I could never. I could never. I couldn't. On that note, it's a perfect time for us to take a little break and we'll be back shortly to take more of the questions.

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12:47who else would I say exactly it's such an obvious question I bet she walks away from that question thinking no they're going to say I knew it I got it right no I'd definitely say you yeah 100 % you okay she did say who do you dislike playing against I don't dislike playing against you because I get to see you and we have a giggle so I'm not I actually look forward to that because we don't actually believe it or not even though we live in the same country now we don't actually get many days off and we don't get time to just like pop around the corner and when we're both retired I'll be popping around for a cup of tea through my little tunnel underground but until then we don't actually get to see each other that much so I do like playing against Rach because then I get to see her but who do you dislike playing against who's like who's like you come up and you're like oh god I think one player like really respected in the last couple of years is Yui Hasegawa.

13:39Like, you think you're going to nick the ball off her. You're like, oh, it's coming now. And then she just like chops out of it. I'm like, all right, sick. Mate, she just spins around like Tasmanian devil. You're like, have I got her? Have I got her? Nope. Literally. Yeah, I'd probably say Yui. But I actually don't dislike playing against her. So I think she's really good. But I'd say she's probably one of the best in that role. Do you know what I think's really... I think she don't get a lot of praise either. Black Sinius. I think she's such a runner. She runs, runs, runs. like she's someone that you've always got to be aware of and again it's not that you dislike playing against her like i actually enjoy playing against her it's it's like a challenge you know you've got to be on your best game defensively it's definitely not a dislike playing against it it's just one of them games where if you're heading into it a little bit tired you're thinking oh shit i've got to be got to be on it here um but i don't think last year she got enough praise i think she definitely goes under the radar for sure next how did you feel when you won the women's euros in your home home nation oh what a cutie so cute i think i always say this i feel like it was just euphoric i think that's the only like word i could describe it with because you can't actually explain it because i think obviously winning any major tournament anywhere is massive but doing it at home there was just something so special about it being in your home nation like you can't i don't think you can replicate that feeling you're the first time we've done it you can't describe it we actually little man not sure what your name is mate but we cannot describe it it was it would just it it literally leaves you like lost for words like it was one of the moments where you're just thinking holy crap what have we just done like we've done it like i just remember we kept saying to each other we've done it we've done it we've done it and then you're like we've done what and it's like you've changed the whole country you've changed women's football like you've kick-started this legacy of like winning trophies like internationally and it were honestly one of the best days the best day of my life like today like still the best the best day yeah it is it's really hard it's really hard to actually put it into words and i think you can only understand the feeling when you were there like yeah even if you had a dream even the fans like I feel like even the fans felt it in the stadium.

15:55I remember seeing people crying left and right. And it's like, you have created a legacy. You have kick-started women's football. Literally. Yeah, it was a crazy feeling, dude. Imagine having something that you've always wanted to do for years and years, and everyone's tried and tried and tried and tried, and you've failed and tried and failed and tried. And then eventually, you do it. Like, blood, sweat and tears, you do it. You face all the obstacles in the world, and you get there. imagine you achieved that dream that you wanted that's literally what we did like for years we failed and then we we did it and doing it in your in your home like imagine doing it in your home with all your loved ones around you and everyone together like it's just yeah it was no better feeling like walking on moon for me my question is what do you eat before a match oh miss picky over here miss miss ritual i've changed right yeah but go back let's let's go back to the playing days when we were both at england and you were very demanding of a certain item and if you didn't have it let's just say it was a big big big problem so i used to only have wheatabix so i had four wheatabix four sugars every pre-match meal and i'm i got really it wasn't even the wheatabix i'd get annoyed at it was the fact that if you know you're in a hotel if the bowl comes in it's a bit like a saucer.

17:18Like I need a deep, to get four Weetabix to fit into a bowl. Rachel, what was that camp when you literally had a baking bowl with four Weetabix? Like a mixing bowl because it was either that or like a plate. You had this massive bowl and these four little bits of Weetabix in because you're like, well, I can't put it in there because it's overflowing and they've got to be placed in a certain way. When I first came to Villa, our nutritionist, Liv, what a legend. She, her daughter, made me a bowl like in a pottery class right yeah like perfectly like the depth was perfect and it said like rachel's wheat abix and then like number nine on the bottle like it was honestly so sick and the chefs travel with that everywhere and then so that was my ritual but then now i've switched right now i have my bagel marmite beans and poached eggs honestly it's a winner i swear it's god but now honestly our chefs were like oh it's just give me goosebumps marmite is rancid our chefs are like rachel you do not need your bowl anymore and i was like no keep packing it because i might yeah keep packing it don't don't you dare take that away i might i might switch back oh god so yeah to be fair don't you have like a mashed potato sandwich or something yeah i am my nutritionist well we've got a new one now but katie was there before the new one Jodie she will learn she will learn my ritual and it's funny because last year Katie used to watch me and she'd watch me like me and Erin eat at bang on like three and a half hours before like Erin's like right Mil we can eat now I just sit down you know I'm like I'm in my own world I used to get up and I'd be looking around and Katie nutritionist would be like why are you looking what you're looking at what you look you know what you're getting just get it I'm like well just having a little and then the walk around just became part of my ritual so I'm looking around as if I'm going to pick up something else, like a poached egg, or I'm not.

19:09I'm getting mashed potato, broccoli, and then I'd get a schnitzel, chicken, and I'd have tomato sauce on top, and that would be my thing. Then I'd have a banana when I got to the game. But then that became like my, and I never changed from it. Like, that's what I have. It's mad, isn't it? It is like a ritual. Crazy. I always used to say, like, I don't have rituals. I'm not superstitious. I bloody am. No, but I used to change my, like, if, like, There was one time I remember when I didn't have any Weet-Bix and I was like, what am I going to do? Oh, my God, World War III. You used to get so stressed.

19:43I was actually concerned. I was like, I might have to run to Chopper. I might have to peg it down to the spa. Yeah, and then I changed. So I had to change that day and I played sick and scored. And I was like, right, that's it. Go into that. That's my meal now, not having Weet-Bix again. That is something players don't understand about athletes and it is an actual thing. If you do something and it could be a pair of knickers, it could be a pair of socks it could be a pair of shin pads or the way you did your hair or the routine if you do something and you have the best game you're like it were that it was definitely them socks i had on it with the way i did my hair nothing to do with how you've actually stepped nothing to do with the preparation or that you actually might have just been having a good game but then you go to it and then if equally if you have a shit game i'd have been like i told you not doing that again you're not doing that again it's my hair my ass crap can i just clarify i I don't eat mashed potato and schnitzel and tomato sauce at like 10 o 'clock in the morning.

20:34That's my pre-match meal, just to clarify. There aren't people thinking I'm dishing up mashed potato at 9am. Probably would like, but I don't. Good question. My question is, do your dogs watch the England games? Lovely face paint. Well, Louis likes to watch TV a bit, but Dexie, have I ever told you about Dexie and penalties? No. Oh, my God. so a few years chase it no i wish my dogs did that a few years ago right i'd just moved to villa and i was watching the men's world cup i think it was and i noticed they just keep going upstairs randomly i thought where is she going why is she just all of a sudden jumped up and gone upstairs and it kept happening throughout me watching the football right and i just clicked on and i was like oh my god she must sense like a bit of anxiety or fear or something in me whenever literally whenever there's a penalty she goes upstairs every single time when football's on if there's a penalty she goes upstairs how does she know that dogs are smart they sense they know it's the most bizarre thing so she she stopped always going upstairs but if she doesn't go upstairs she turns away like she will literally if we're watching tv now she she could just go it's the most honestly but she is the most intelligent like emotionally intelligent dog I swear that's no so she doesn't watch football Elsa does sit and watch she watches all TV to be honest she perches on Edge at Sofa and she'll watch it and you'll see her little head going like this Deuce is flat out asleep nothing can entertain him he's snoring away he does not care Hera she don't care either to be honest so it's nothing against the Lionesses or any other football match they just have better things to be doing like sleeping okay we've got time for one last question i love you guys can you be my best friend please ah sorry i've only got room for one i haven't got time for another one sorry uh rachel takes up all my emotional energy and presence but i hope you find a best friend like ours we can give you tips we'll wish you the best of luck finding that but we will always be your friend that is what Daily Brightness is we welcome everyone with open arms so I feel like we're besties with all our fans we'll be your virtual friend no problem yeah besties DB besties let's make that a new motto great questions everyone thank you we enjoyed doing things a little bit different this time around but that is it for the rest is football Daily Brightness goodbye from me goodbye from me

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