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Speaker 1: Sports Sports news told differently.

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Speaker 2: I'm Georgie Tunney and I'm Abby Gelmy and George. When

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Speaker 2: we started this podcast, we were very adamant that, look,

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Speaker 2: about it for the sake of it. Very fitting for

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Speaker 2: our first episode, the only thing the country is talking

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Speaker 2: about is the Matilda's and how immensely successful the World

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Speaker 2: unpack of today. But for now, should we get to

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Speaker 2: the headlines.

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Speaker 1: Headline number one Spain the new world champions. They defeated

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Speaker 1: England one nil in the World Cup final and I

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Speaker 1: doesn't know the story of La Roja, look it up. Basically,

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Speaker 1: if we're going to truncate the story. Last October, the

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Speaker 1: team actually went to their governing body. They wrote a

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Speaker 1: So twelve of those fifteen players were not selected in

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Speaker 2: The thing that we have to say. It speaks so

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Speaker 2: much to Spain's depth. We know that they were under

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Speaker 2: They're very junior champions. Yeah, and to win given all

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Speaker 2: the drama that had happened to that point, it's crazy. God,

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Speaker 2: what a tournament?

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Speaker 1: What a tournament?

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Speaker 2: What do we do now?

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Speaker 2: You know what we do now? We watch AFL AFL.

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Speaker 2: So let's the final. The finals are heating up doorge well,

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Speaker 2: Yet they're going to be the new Tasmania start. There's

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Speaker 2: Crows were robbed of a game winning goal against the

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Speaker 1: So hang on, hang on. So it was a goal.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they're still not a host right, No, nothing announced.

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Speaker 1: Just to add three hundred and eighty million dollars onto

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yuck. It's so yuck. I just I feel for

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Speaker 2: three hundred and eighty mil to not have the Common

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Speaker 2: a moment that will be remembered forever. It seems fitting

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Speaker 2: that this is what she said to the Matilda's group

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Speaker 4: The power of what of you just being here is

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Speaker 4: like unimaginable, Like it's beyond your wildest dreams, what you're

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Speaker 4: that just.

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Speaker 1: Makes me want to cry.

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Speaker 2: The term goosebumps has used a lot in football. It

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Speaker 1: Just Queen Kathy just talking. This was before the tournament

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Speaker 2: Unimaginable. Yeah, it was before this unimaginable that you couldn't

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Speaker 1: We have to go back because the Matilda's they now

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Speaker 1: Yeah, categorically they are everyone's favorite team. But they are

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Speaker 1: the farthest thing from an overnight success that you could

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Speaker 5: And here Sam Kerr, she's probably need some support per

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Speaker 2: Scenes and deals as you just so eloquently put George

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Speaker 1: Yes, she was too good, but.

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Speaker 2: Football fanatics, people that have never watched the game before, men, women, boys, girls,

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Speaker 1: Yes, But that's because she would have been the one

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Speaker 2: But for me, something that there were ten blokes that

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Speaker 1: Yes, they bought the gardening gloves.

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Speaker 1: She is a marketing dream. The face, the hair, the just,

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Speaker 1: We need you get a car, You get a car.

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Speaker 6: I've said it before, it's bigger than ninety minute football.

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Speaker 6: We're very disappointed at we lost, but hopefully we won

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about that money. The Albanezy government as of

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Speaker 1: What is that by like half a keeper's glove?

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Speaker 1: And I do think that the worst thing that could

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Speaker 1: Football Australia is predicting that there will be a twenty

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Speaker 2: So those numbers Georgia are pretty damning, Yeah, pretty damning. However,

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Speaker 2: thirty seven million dollars to support women's sport, tripling the

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Speaker 2: Inclusive Facilities Fund from ten million to thirty million. Ten

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Speaker 2: There needs to be statues there does Look.

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Speaker 1: What I'm saying is is it an either all. Why

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Speaker 1: can't we be greedy at this moment and say I

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Speaker 1: want the statues, I want the funding.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I want all of it. We can have it all,

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Speaker 2: but I think, but we can't fund the game. I

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Speaker 2: think the importance is that we listen to the players.

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Speaker 2: What they've given us so much. They've given us so

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Speaker 2: many moments over the past couple of weeks where we'll

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Speaker 2: remember exactly where they were. What do they want this

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Speaker 2: legacy to be about funding and growth in football? And

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Speaker 2: as fans and viewing public, we can continue to do

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Speaker 2: that with our eyes.

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Speaker 1: Ailey Women's coming up.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: There's also so many grassroots teams around this country, junior

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Speaker 1: clubs that need your support. They need you to volunteer.

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Speaker 1: They need you to go watch so we can all

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Speaker 1: do that.

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Speaker 2: Keep on the bandwagon. They're going to keep making us proud,

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Speaker 2: and I think overwhelmingly we just want to say thank

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Speaker 2: you for a really beautiful couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Tillis tell me it is time for our

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Speaker 1: favorite segment here on the show, fun Facts. You know

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Speaker 1: picked up we're kind of sports nerds.

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Speaker 2: This is also the part where you say things and

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Speaker 2: I go pardon fun Facts.

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Speaker 1: I love it. So what I want to do for

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Speaker 1: you to say pardon now is I need to take

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Speaker 1: you back again in time. We're going back. It's a

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Speaker 1: history lesson the very first Women's World Cup in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety one, great year I was born.

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Speaker 2: Great year.

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Speaker 1: Also we had this World Cup. What do you think

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Speaker 1: was called? It was called the first FIFA World Championship

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Speaker 1: for Women's Football for the Eminem's Cup.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, can you how many words?

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Speaker 4: Is that?

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Speaker 3: The first speaker Women's World Championship for the Eminem's Cup.

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Speaker 2: As a broadcaster who knows how particular they are that

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Speaker 2: phrasing around tournaments, his bang on, Yes, I would have

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Speaker 2: knocked out first FIFA World Championship for Women's Football for

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Speaker 2: the Eminem's Cup and been like it's been lovely seeing

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Speaker 2: you all. I'm going home.

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Speaker 1: I'm going home, I need nap, I'm going home. Well,

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Speaker 1: apparently FIFA didn't actually want to call it a World Cup.

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Speaker 1: They were reluctant to do that because ding ding ding.

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Speaker 1: They were unsure of how successful the tournament would be,

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Speaker 1: the possibility that women's football could.

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Speaker 2: Take off again. This is in the nineties, in the

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Speaker 2: nine season in This is in our lifespan. This we're

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Speaker 2: not talking about the fifties where it's like, ooh, contra

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Speaker 2: women not wearing skirts when they play this. This is

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Speaker 2: the nineties where they're like, oh, it's women, it's the

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Speaker 2: world but you can't possibly call it a World Cup.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and remember we still didn't. We still weren't technically

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Speaker 1: known as the Matilda's.

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Speaker 2: Then funny you should say that Georgie fun fact. On

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Speaker 2: top of fun fact, they just keep coming at you.

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Speaker 2: We talked about the female soccer us being the name,

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Speaker 2: which is appalling. They also were almost the soccerates, the

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Speaker 2: blue flyers.

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Speaker 1: Blue the blue fly, no idea?

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Speaker 2: Is it a possum? Could you be in green and

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Speaker 2: gold and also be a blue fly? Very confusing? War

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Speaker 2: retors well, we've already got one of them. I mean

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Speaker 2: they're playing rugby union somewhere. Lour keets lour keats very intimidating.

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Speaker 1: It just doesn't really roll off the tongue, does it.

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Speaker 1: And the lorrier Keids are tagging on the line And

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Speaker 1: actually that doesn't sound bad now that I say it

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Speaker 1: in hindsight.

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Speaker 2: Well let's just say we've come a long way.

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Speaker 1: That is it for their this week's fun Fact, and

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Speaker 1: that's it.

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Speaker 2: For our show today.

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Speaker 1: No, oh my gosh, you're so sad it's over.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we'll be back next week. There's so much

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Speaker 2: happening in sport this week that it feels like we've

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Speaker 2: just scraped the surface. As always. We'll be back next week.

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Speaker 1: And we'll be back next week. I'm so excited.

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Speaker 2: But just remember biggot Sport