The latest episode of The Rest Is Football: Daly Brightness dropped this morning, in this session Millie and Rachel discuss Chelsea’s historic win and in aid of Mental Health Awareness, share their own personal journeys.
Here are a few quotes from today’s podcast.
Millie Bright talks further about Chelsea unbeaten streak:
Rachel: You became the first WSL side to finish a 22-game season unbeaten
Millie: I think that’s one of my biggest achievements, you know, going unbeaten…I did a interview with Liam from BBC before the season and that was something I wrote in his notes. Obviously the quadruple, we didn’t get the quadruple, but we still have an opportunity to do the treble, which is unbelievable. But going unbeaten in the season is, for me, that is like phenomenal and I don’t see many teams doing it and… I think everything that was faced, and I just think it’s sick. Like I’m dead proud of it.
Millie: Obviously winning the league is massive, but going unbeaten was pretty sick.
Rachel: Not only unbeaten though, like you won 19 out of 22 and drew three. Like, that’s such good going. I bet you’re looking back now knowing you’ve been like, why did we draw them three?
Millie: Oh, honestly, and I said to the girls, I was like, “if we damage, like potentially breaking a record and going unbeaten on the last day of the season”, I was like, “I’ll be livid”. You wouldn’t catch me at the after party. Winning the league or not, like that would’ve completely ruined my season if we’d have lost.
Rachel: Yeah, that just tops it off don’t it.
Millie: Yeah. But it was just like you said, only three draws. I think, its been one of my favourite seasons, to be honest. Reflecting.
Millie:…I think something throughout the season we’re not ruthless enough, I know that seems crazy because we’ve won 19 games and we’ve gone unbeaten but we’re not ruthless enough…
Rachel: Yeah like games when you’ve won 1-0 you feel like you could have gone 4-0
Millie: Yeah you know what I mean? Sometimes its like the result doesn’t always reflect the game or the performance but it was just fine margins like either not getting it on target or not clinical enough, or you know, like maybe wrong decisions at final third but I thought we had a really good game and I think when you are in that moment and the performance is good, its just those tiny little details and we knew if we got a chance we would eventually take it. And Aggie’s been outstanding so yeah I think she really deserved that moment, I’m dead happy for her.
During Mental Health Awareness week, Millie Bright and Rachel Daly share more about their own personal journeys and thoughts on social media – “I’d say the last two years have been the hardest two years from a personal perspective, which only you know about and family know about”:
Millie: I think society right now is the hardest it’s ever been, to be a part of.
Rachel: It’s a tough place to live at the minute, isn’t it? (…) I think social media for me is probably one of the worst places.
Millie: Hate it. Absolutely hate it.
Rachel: For everyone listening, I’ve had a few people ask me why my social media is that way, I’ve turned all my comments off and DM’s, like nobody can get in touch with me unless I’ve already had a conversation with them or I follow them and it’s purely and simply because it’s not a very nice place and I feel like people think that… we’re okay and we can just deal with everything and we’re robots and we don’t see it, like we see it. We see all the nasty stuff that gets mentioned and the hate that is put towards us. For me that was one of the best things, to not be able to see all that. Because like you say, it’s triggering, people can get personal, they can get nasty and it’s like over a game of football and you know, you think like, yeah, we’re in the public eye so it’s a little bit different (…) Don’t get me wrong, social media has its massive pros and we wouldn’t be where we are in our sport, probably without the world of the social media and the media.
Millie: This is where I’ll demand more from social media platforms. Make it so that they can’t have a fake account. Make it so that you have to show your identity. You have to upload your passport or your driving license. Make it so that you have to be 18. Provide your driving license. You can only have one account and one account only, and if you lose your account through being an idiot on social media, unlock then tough sh*t. You’re off the platform…Like, you wonder why the percentages are so high when society’s doing nothing about it. You’re just encouraging it.
Rachel: I think obviously mental health is a tough one because it’s not visible. So it’s completely invisible. Like if I’m struggling, you are struggling, you and I both know we can walk out the house and no one would know and that’s the type of people we are.
Millie: There’d be three people that I would say that would be able to read if I was, I mean, I’ve gone through a lot, especially this past six months, but I’d say the last two years have been the hardest two years from a personal perspective, which only you know about and family know about, but no one else knew about it and they were like, “What? That’s happened?” And I’m like, “yeah” and no one knows that. That’s the thing. We’re masters of it. We’re masters of having a poker face because guess what? We’ve got to get up and go to football and we’ve got to get up and play in a final. We’ve got to get up and you know, I’ve got to have my football image and I’ve got to be the role model and I’ve got to be this and I’ve got to be that.
The Rest Is Football: Daly Brightness is available to listen to now
