Football Daily - Women's Euros: Maisie Adam's Euro's Fan Diary

Episode Date: June 28, 2025

Comedian & football obsessive Maisie Adam brings you the first of her special Women's Euro fan diaries. She's joined by Line of Duty's + Soccer Aid Coach Vicky McClure & 5 Live Sport presenter Katie Smith as they talk Swiss food, Swiss watches and (probably more importantly) what to expect from the tournament as the Lionesses go in as defending champions. Maisie and Katie also give each other some challenges to complete during their time in Switzerland!

BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. This is the Football Daily podcast. Maisie Adams, Euros fan diary. Welcome along to the latest Five Life Football Daily at the Euros. Hang on. Hang on. I thought this was my pod. What are you doing, Katie?

Who are you? I'm Maisie Adams. I'm the main event. Welcome to Maisie Adam's fan diary. Thank you very much. Giving you the fan's view throughout the tournament. What are you here for, Katie? Why?

Well, I thought I was doing a football daily. I mean, that's what I was brought in for. Never heard of it. Oh, okay. Well, let me outline it to you, my friend. I think we're doing the same thing, but from different angles. This sounds like it could be a hashtag collab. Oh,'re doing the same thing but from different angles. This sounds like it could be a hashtag collab. Oh okay yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah women working together come on it's

the future. Okay no we like that don't we that's the new thing. Right women's euros in Switzerland Football Daily is going to be there throughout the tournament. We are chatting to players we're going to be inside the England camp before and after games. We're going to do live coverage live commentary of all their matches starting up against France and we're going to be inside the England camp before and after games, we're going to do live coverage, live commentary of all their matches starting up against France and we're going to be reacting to everything going on. What are you doing? Do you know what, Katie? I take it back. That sounds absolutely amazing. I will be chatting to the fans. I'm going to be there in Switzerland going up to, frankly, anybody that'll have me going, who are you? Not in an aggressive way, in like a hi, who are you?

Welcome to the show way. Who are you? Who are you here to support? Can you teach me some chants? What's your favorite food in Switzerland so far? Who do you think is gonna win? The big hard hitting questions that the award winning journalists ask, you know?

And I sort of love the fact you're already in an England shirt before you even start. You're gonna be that one rambling over. It's never too soon to get your kit on. Surely. I've had mine on since March. What do you think of the new England kit then? Do you know what?

I love the away one. I love the black kit with the sides. I'm warming to the home one. At first, when I first saw it on Instagram, I did think it looked a bit like, you know, when your printer runs out of ink. Just get that line. It's just a bit too gradual, the colour scheme, isn't it? Like we need defining lines, I think. But do you know what I would add? I like, I like the training tops as well. Have you

seen the purple? I don't know what shade of purple. The purple. Big fan of the purple. Is it a violet? I think it's darker than violet. Yeah, I don't know what we call that. Is it mauve? Mauve? Violet? Indigo perhaps? I don't know.

Purple? Magenta. Anyway, I love a little bit of magenta, if that's what it is. But that looks smart and sharp. And that's what our girls are going for. Do you know what? I really like that we've brought back the word magenta. I don't think it gets thrown out around enough.

In fact, if you get chatting to some of the lionesses, I want you to try and sort of, like subtly get in the word magenta. Magenta. I'm gonna add mauve to that list as well. And we'll just see how that goes down. But you can't get it in by asking what color do you think the kit is.

You have to get it in casually? Oh? Okay, yeah, I've got a challenge for you as well Okay, well so obviously Maisie you're talking to all the fans aren't you you're gonna be out you don't know who you're talking to you Just grabbing anyone you bumbling up in your England kit. Just hoping to step down in a non-aggressive manner So what I'm thinking is I'm gonna set you a challenge across the weeks that you're there to try and chat to as many England fans. Actually, it doesn't even have to be England, any nation, but they've got to have the same name as England players.

So you get a point. There's some easy ones in there. I'll give you an Ella. I'll give you a Georgia and Alex. Lots in there, But there's some tricky ones. You've got, you've got Michelle's, you've got Leah, Alessia. You've got a lot of- I don't know anybody else called Aggie except Aggie Beaver-Jones.

Well, I'm going to give you triple points for a few of them. So Aggie, you get triple points if you find Aggie. You get a triple, triple points if you get a Serena. Triple points. I think, what else? Probably Alessia I'd add in there as well. Alessia. You don't get many Alesses. I mean, Aggie Beaver, she's got to be the last Aggie going, hasn't she? There's no other Aggies. It's quite an elderly name, isn't it?

Never met an Aggie. Oh, it's like meeting a five-year-old Maureen. Should we put that in the Magenta category? Yeah. Magenta Aggie. Moven Maureen. Aggie Magenta would be a great drag queen to be fair. I will let her know that. So we've got to see if you can rack up 10 points in your fan chats otherwise there is going to be a forfeit and I won't tell

you what it is now. Oh no no no hang on forfeit. Oh yeah here we go. This is serious stuff, this is for Euros, England are the defending champions. Yeah yeah I'm uh I'm excited though okay I'm excited to be in Switzerland I'm excited for the tournament I'm excited to be in Switzerland. I'm excited for the tournament. I'm excited to see how we fare in the group because it's a blooming tough one. It's a blooming tough one. What are you looking forward to? Well, I think the fact that England are going in

as the reigning champions, I think it's kind of interesting because no England side have ever been in that position. And I said it to Leah Williamson the other day, the captain, I was like, you are the first captain to go in and have to defend a title. And she was like, oh, I've got goosebumps. Like no one's ever really put it like that. And I gave myself a pat on the back, obviously.

I was like, great question. Thanks for really scaring the squad before we start. Cheers for that, Katie. Yeah, she was like, won't be passing that on. But we go out in the groups now we know it's a blame. Exactly, don't talk to Smith. I think that's exciting and I think that does give them a bit of confidence, it gives them a bit of clout going into those games. So they're facing, if you don't know, in the groups they've got France, they've got Netherlands, former champions with Serena Vigmen as manager before England won it. And then they've got Wales, home nation, neighbours.

So that could be interesting. And by the time they get to that Wales game, depending on their previous two results, they may really, really need something. And we don't know where Wales will be in their first tournament as well. So there could be loads riding on that game. So I'm excited in that sense. And I think it's cited that we've got some really cool new names in the camp as well like Michelle Adjiman. Did you see her goal, Maisie, on her debut? 41 seconds in. Oh my lord. Unreal. We've had some exceptional debuts from the younger ones. It was

Michelle's screamer basically as soon as she walked on the pitch but also Aggy Beaver Jones's Wembley debut. She goes and gets a hat trick. Like, I think this is the thing, is there's been so much chat around how different this squad is to the last one, and quite a lot of big significant players from the last Euros aren't there. But that's forgetting the breadth of fresh new young talent that we're getting coming through. They're really, really excited. Russo's had like an unreal season. I know you spent a day at the camp recently, Katie. What were the vibes there? So they basically brought us in, the media, and were like, you're going to do like player speed

dating. So they put a big clock in the middle of this sports hall, yeah. They put 60 minutes on it, so you're in the hour. And you, It was kind of like a game in itself. I felt like I was employing football tactics. I was like, do we go to the defenders first? Do we think they'll hold us up? Are we going to go midfield? Are we going to double pivot? Are we going to try and get to Hampton, the number one?

She's got a really interesting story. Do you know what? They literally put a board out for us. I saw Sky Sports going over and fiddling with the board and I said, no, no, no, we're not doing that. We know our tactics, guys. Come on, let's go go but it was cool so they paired the players on these stations together so you would go and go and chat

to them and the vibes were great they had a flat white barista man on tap as well so he was just bringing the players like whatever drinks I don't know why I said flat white that would be my choice but they were getting whatever. I thought you meant the man was flat and white I was like I think that's body-shaming actually Katie I think you should be more respectful. It's a BBC Yeah, there was a lot of decaf going around it was late afternoon at this point and it was so so hot It was in like a proper old-school like sports halls So I was just sweating away through them agenda tracks is but yeah really positive energy There were loads of dogs there as well So all the players are now staying at St. George's Park where we were, which is

like the national football training center. And they can all bring their dogs for a bit because they all have dogs, don't they? They're all obsessed with dogs. Do you like dogs? Yeah, I love them. I didn't know they all. I know like Beth Meads got dogs. Who else was there? Who had the best dog? Chloe Kelly's dog is cute. Really? Small dog, I reckon. Lucy Bronze. Yeah, yeah, very best dog? Chloe Kelly's dog is cute. Really? Small dog I reckon. Lucy Bronze?

Yeah, very small dog. You've got Lucy Bronze. This is a great game. Guess what dog they have. I think Lauren James. Lucy Bronze I reckon like a massive German Shepherd type thing. No, a big fluffy thing. No, no, it's like, I'm not very good with breeds, but I think it's like a little fluffy

like terrier type. No. It's called gnarla. Oh my god Lucy Bronze gives such a like guard dog energy vibe like a Rottweil or a German Shepherd. Yeah. Yeah. It's so nice.

Yeah. Uncontrollable. But no so it was good there was a lot of noise there was a lot of energy and it was quite fun so they were talking as well so the newbies about how Serena Vigman told them that they'd made it into the squad, which I always love. And they said it really threw them this year. We were chatting to Mare Letizia, who's the Man United captain. And she said that last time she got a call, it was just a phone call, like a normal audio

call. This time she gets a video call from Serena. So she just got off the plane. Vigman's FaceTiming now. Oh yeah, here we go. We're getting big. And she was like, what? Haven't brushed my hair. I don't know what to do. I do think though, at least you'd go, if Serena's FaceTiming, you don't FaceTime to give bad

news, do you? I don't think you do. I think so. No. So that was quite fun. They were talking about that. They were also talking about how Arsenal winning the Champions League a couple of weeks ago, which was stunning in terms of like what it meant for women's football and the celebrations in North London looked so good. But they were saying that's translated into the whole squad. So even those who didn't win it are like a little bit jealous but also loving it because they're saying it's like the feeling they had before the Euros last time out. You know where everyone was just like galvanized in England. It was like host city, women's football's coming to

town post-COVID, everyone's like loving getting out and about and it feels a bit like that. And they said they want to use that energy to go into this time in Switzerland. I love that. I love that they're sharing their win with the whole squad and it's spreading, spreading like wildfire. Speaking of vibes that are spreading, I kind of want to, that's what I'm really excited to get to Switzerland for, is to like really get on board with the culture that I've never been before. So I don't really know what to expect. Google tells me fondue and chocolate,

but what do you reckon beyond that? Well, no, you need to go further than this, my friend. You've got to do the Holy Trinity of cheese. Do you know what it is? Oh, wait, wow, I don't know this. What, what? Right, okay. Oh, come on, you've got so much to learn.

Right, you've got fondue, you've got raclette, Well, I don't know this. What? What? Right. Okay. Oh, come on. You've got so much to learn. Right. You've got fondue. You've got raclette and you've got tartar flat. And ideally you do them all in one day.

And that's like chef's kiss. Sounds dense, Katie. That sounds very dense. A lot of potato and a lot of cheese and a lot of bread. Oh, we're chucking potatoes in there. What's that part of? Oh, this is tartar flat. Yeah.

But you'll see. So it's like potatoes and fried onions and then a little bit of meat and then it's all covered in cheese and baked and so they're, these are all these alpine dishes. So I only know Switzerland, I've only ever been in the winter because I like a little bit of winter sports me, but too expensive to ski in Switzerland. So we fly to Geneva and then drive straight out to France. So I know Geneva airport really, really well. It's not her first rodeo, she's done this before. Don't know much else in the country. But it's supposed to be stunning, isn't it,

with the lakes and the mountains? I'm just getting over the fact that I've told you I'm going to be interviewing fans, and you're recommending that I have a dish that is fried onions, fried potato. I'm going to have breath like an absolute minger. No one's going to come for a chat with me. No one's going to come for a chat with old onion potato one's going to come for a chat with old onion potato.

Also you're going to have to roll me home. If I have three cheese, three cheeses a day. You will thank me. It's recollect the one where it's like a big semi-circuit. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that one on Instagram. I've seen that one. So there's a dipper, a slider and then tartar flets. What?

Just get stuck in. Is it like a lasagna? It's yeah it's in a lasagna dish yeah basically so it's like baked in the oven so it's just mmm oh it's so good but do you know what I've also been googling other fun facts about Switzerland fun being loose term. Do you want some? Well I'm gonna test you actually. You've committed to the word fun now you've really got to follow through on this, Kati. Hit me! Mia Williamson was the only one in camp who knew the answer to this when I asked them.

Do you know the four official languages of Switzerland? Oh, French, I'm gonna guess. Oui. German. Yeah. Italian? Is that round there? C! Oh my god, so what's the fourth? Very good. It's literally a word you've never heard of.

Oh, I was gonna guess Swiss but I think other people have heard of that one, haven't they? It's such a slow... A word I've never heard of. Well, I'd never heard of it. I thought it was Flemish but that's the Netherlands. No, that's the Belgian one, isn't it? Yeah. Oh, the Netherlands. Yeah, Belgium and the Belgian one, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, Belgium and Netherlands. Somewhere up there. Somewhere up there. Do you want to know?

What is it then? What's the fourth one? It's spoken by less than 1% of the population of Switzerland. Oh, man. And it's called Romance. Romance. Romance? You sounded like Lady Gaga then. A bad Romance. The bad Romance. But bad romance. The bad romance. But less than 1% speak it. So you could even go up to a Swiss person chatting romance and they'll be like, sorry, you're going to have to switch to French or English here.

Yeah. Not English, not English. I'm not going to be that person that goes abroad and just points at the menu, going omelette, please. I'm going to I'll commit to learning to learning one Katie I might commit to maybe just friend I'm all I'm doing all right at the old Duolingo I might I might just put all my eggs in one basket. Have you been on a streak leading into this have you been learning specifically for this? Yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm on 47 don't you worry about it. Oh lovely stuff. Yeah yeah.

Carry on set carry on set that's what I'm on. I'm basically fluent. All right do you know what Katie challenge accepted. I'll tick them all off day one done. I also want you to find someone who speaks Romance while you're there. Oh yeah I will. If there's one percent of people you'll find them. I'll learn it. I'll fly back and I'll be just chatting it all day. I'll have to adjust back to English. Sorry I'm just in my I remember Romance head. day. I'll have to adjust back to English. Sorry, I'm just in my Romance head. On the Football Daily podcast, Maisie Adams, Euros fan diary. From my very first game I knew that I wanted to be a goalkeeper.

The buzz and the adrenaline that I got from it. The dream was to always represent my country. Marriott, desperate to impress. I can remember her saying, I know I've got what it takes. And crucial save from us. You have to be obsessed. You just look at some of the saves that she makes. Not everyone can do that.

I really had no idea really how far I would go. England around done of the dead! It felt like my world was ending. That was the moment. I was in pieces on the kitchen floor. You have to hit rock bottom to understand what you really want. Mary would put herself in front of anything and feel like she could stop it.

I've done something that I've always dreamed of doing. I never knew if I would get the opportunity to do. Katie, we've got a special guest joining us now. Who have we got? Live and direct. It's only Vicky McClure. Hi, Vicky. Hi, ladies. How are you?

Very well. Very, very well. How are you? I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. The sun is very much shining. Oh, it's roasting, mate. Absolutely roasting.

It feels just about time for a bit of football doesn't it? Are you excited Vicky? I am excited, I'm really excited. I think my football world has kind of evolved over the last five years and I'm learning a lot. Were you a fan as a kid Vicky? Not really, I was a fan of like the World Cup, so anything that brought everyone together in a pub and any excuse to just put on the kit and just look like the part. That was kind of my vibe. This is what's so exciting about international tournaments is it's so many people's like entry point people that might not really pay attention the rest of the year. You go, do you know Bob on a kit and getting a beer garden and cheer for the

team. Yeah. And all of a sudden you're really involved, really invested, haven't been invested all year through and then you're in it. I love it. And you have like really deep thoughts about the players and how they're doing. Yeah, yeah. I didn't even know your name two weeks ago. Yeah, exactly. You start like, you start coaching from the sidelines even though you've never done that

in your life before. Everyone's a critic at that point. But yeah, I mean, now it's different. It's different now. Obviously with Soccer Aid and Jonny, my husband, he's fully engrossed in football in many ways. Well, this is it. I was going to say you've not coached before, but you have. You're England's biggest fan at Soc soccer raid at the sidelines giving out

all of the instructions alongside Harry Redknapp. Yeah I do I mean I had a moment at this year's soccer raid where I was in sort of like we found some private space to pick the team and it was me Harry Redknapp, Jammo and Wayne Rooney and we were all sat there and we're like picking the team and they're talking about things really logically and I'm going but you still need to make sure you've got this person on at this point and trying to just think of any rule that I know that they might have forgotten about because it's just a soccer aid rule doesn't apply in any other football match on the planet but I looked through those rules just to make sure I can put

in the point. That's good, that's good because they do they come in with like really sometimes quite technical terms and you just you nod along I've learned this with soccer it's just best to nod along like you understand the rule but a lot of people who've played it their whole life they forget that not everybody else has come from academies since they were four years old. What I do Maisie is I act. That is my job. And I'm going to stick my head above the parapet Vicky and say you're quite good at it. Could be a future for you. But I act so I know what I'm doing. Yeah there was a bit when I was training with the world 11 and Kaylin Kyle is obviously like played for Canada. What a sentence. I know I know. Yeah. Kaylin Kyle's obviously like played for Canada. I know, I know. Kaylin Kyle's like, she's played, she's an Olympian for God's sake. And she shouted across, she's so lovely and

encouraging. She went, Maisie tuck in, tuck in, tuck yourself in. I genuinely thought she meant my shirt. I stopped. It was, it was more, she was like, no, you tuck in. I was like, I'm really sorry. Sorry. What are your man management skills like, Vicky? Did you find you could lean into that side of the game? Listen, Katie, I'm there for motivation. I want to make sure everyone's fit and healthy. I want to make sure they're hydrated and they're happy. If you're happy, you play well. I'm there for motivation. I'm there for morale. I would never lie to you, especially on a sports podcast, to tell you that I'm there giving out any kind of technical tip. It's not going to happen.

You're that person on the sidelines going, you're doing really well. Yeah, I'm afraid, Auntie. That's my vibe. Yes, we're better for it. With the Euros, have you ever been to Switzerland? Because that's what we were discussing before you hopped in. No, I haven't. I would love to go to Switzerland.

I mean, whenever you see Switzerland, it always looks like the cleanest place on the planet as well. And after just doing my deep clean this morning, I'm all down for that. It just looks beautiful. I've never been. I would love to go. The only person to go to Switzerland in July for the cleanliness really. Just for the... Yeah. Just for the... Ah.

Just like the aesthetics. It looks really clean and clean. It looks lovely. Well, we were asking the players the other day, Vicky, the England women's players, what they think of when they first... when we say the word Switzerland, and we had such a range of answers. It was like lakes and mountains, lovely scenery. Yeah. And then we just had chocolate cheese and watches. Yeah that is true actually they do do a good watch. Do you know what they

do love? They love a cowbell and they do it across all their sports so you're proper like they go for it so it's really raucous and loud which will be a good fun and you can drink in stadiums Maisie we haven't even talked about that. Oh, hello. Cowbells and drinking, I mean. I don't think I've played the cowbell since, like, primary school. I don't think I've played a cowbell. You've never played a cowbell? Oh, you've not lived, Vicky. I've not lived. I don't need to go to Switzerland. I mean, for the match, but you know. People don't bring the cowbell to day fever.

No, but that could be introduced. Right. That's what you want to do. You want to get the DJs above at the box there with the cowbell. Come on. Maybe bring a tambourine in as well. All the classics. All the primary school instrument, be someone there on a recorder to free to desire. They're all coming back you know those like school song bangers, they're all making a return. It's not a rave unless someone's on the triangle, that's what I was saying. No exactly, I agree maybe. What's on a rave unless someone's on the triangle. That's what I was saying. No, exactly. I agree, Maisie.

What's on your playlist, Vicky, for the Euros this summer? Have you got any tunes? Do you know what? I can't... I wish I could remember which match it was at, but I remember being at a match and you know La Bumba. La la la la la la Bumba. I think that is such a great tune.

Oh, that's a good one. Gets everyone going, doesn't it? Gets everyone going. The shoulders come out. Gets the shoulders going. We don't really know what they're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just... Get everyone going, don't it? Get the shoulders going. We don't really know what they're saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just I mean, if you want to use it, go ahead. I'm giving it to you. That's a good. That's a good. Are you across the squad much, Vicky? Like have you seen, do you know any players that you kind of you're excited to see more of? We've had, you know, we've had the FA Cup coming up

through with the Manchester United players, and there's quite a few returning from the last time we won the Euros. I like Leah. I think she's a cool, very cool chick, and she's a great player. And also, there's lots of, not controversy, but obviously the team is changing and all that kind of stuff.

So I've seen all of that going on. I think Serena's brilliant. I know, I think, you know, she's done a great job and being, you know, obviously Emma Hayes never really did the Oro's, but she's taught me a lot over the years in terms of female, you know, women's football. I just think where we are now with it, because I would have loved to have played football back at school. We always had a ball. We was always kicking a ball about, but we never played a match. And you know, we never had the opportunity to play a match. So the fact that I never play at Soc Raid is purely because I've

never actually played a match in my life. Yeah. So yeah, I've kind of like, over the years become way more invested in women's football. And my stepdaughter, Katie, she goes to pretty much all the big matches. She'll be out there in Switzerland representing for Wales. So yeah she's really really excited. Well let's talk about that right because there's obviously there's a big day, 13th July, England are going to be playing Wales. Now depending on how the group goes this could be for both teams, like very, very necessary to win. So it could really it's always a clash anyway, England versus Wales. But when you're in the same group, and it's the last group game, that is that is a tricky one, especially if you're in a household where you're English and your partner as well.

So come the 13th of July, Vicky McClure, what kit are you going to be wearing? I'll be wearing England. And I'll tell you why. Tell you for why. Yes! Because Johnny, fair play to him, wouldn't be seen dead in an England shirt. Yeah.

So I get it. Yeah. He's so Welsh and he's so supportive of his... When it comes to football, there's just no question. He was supporting the rest of the world for soccer aid. I love it. I got it. I understood. So you used to be on opposite teams in the household. And it's... If... And I'm not saying they will, but if England beat Wales,

would Johnny be all right about it? Or is there a little bit of a compression? It's shake my hand. It's shake your hand. It'll be alright. And then leave the house. And then leave the house. You know what, he won't actually like, he can't watch the matches sometimes. You know when the stakes are that high and it is England versus Wales, he can't do it. He's like, it's too much. Honestly, like penalties, my heart goes through the roof. Oh, I can't. I can't. That's my one wish is I don't want penalties in this team. No, stressful. I can't take it. I can't take it. I'll tell you a funny story about the Euros, though.

I think it was 2016 when Wales got through and we went to Bordeaux. And I said to Jonny, I was like, you know, I can't remember what I got on, but I was probably in the middle of a job. And I says, if I can't be bothered to go to the match, I'm just going to book a nice hotel and then I'll just do the spa and you can go and have a nice time and I'll just chill. So I bought this really nice hotel, gets there and I was like, oh, a lot of security hanging about, I hope everything's all right. Turns out I booked us into the same hotel as the team. Right. No.

And we're like, Gareth Bale's just wandering through and everyone was, it was honestly. So we waved them off. They got on the team bus, we waved them off. And then I was like videoing loads of stuff and Jonny ended up making a film about it. It's supposed to be on there. And then my footage ended up going in the film. No way. And I was like, I kind of feel like I'm in the mood now, I'll come with you. And they won. Yeah, it's amazing what staying in the same hotel as a squad can do for your morale.

For your morale. It's really into it. We need to get you to the England Hotel this time around Vicky, in Switzerland. The stay near Zurich, apparently it's absolutely stunning. It's out in like a mountain retreat. Have you seen the picture? So it sounds up your street. No, but it sounds really clean as well. I like it. She'll be there with us, Gaurav. She'll be there. Vicky, thank you so much. We are so delighted to have had you on today. You're so welcome. Enjoy it.

We'll be cheering along with you for the Euros. Yeah, yeah. I thought I had to be quite careful around you cheering for England, but now I'm delighted. No, listen, I love Wales. I adore Wales. My husband's Welsh, my stepdaughter, you know, I adore them. And as a nation and when it comes to football, you know,

they're always sort of like seen as backfought and even watching a match a few weeks ago that, you know, that they do brilliantly for such a small country. So yeah, come on Wales. They're an underdog, but they're a dark horse. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, they could have a really good one. Vicki McClure, thank you so much for joining us. You're so welcome. All right, I'll see you soon with my cowbell. Yeah, me too babe. I'm gonna go and buy one off Amazon now lovely. Thank you so much Thank you. Oh Vicky McClure, what's a legend? How good was that? So good and like so funny to get someone who basically says I don't really follow it

But also I made a film about the euros. Yeah, go watch it I'm not really into football, but yeah, I was there in 2016 and I filmed the squad. So yeah. Do you know what, the one thing we didn't ask her, Maisie, was obviously now being a manager, like what would be her top advice to Serena Vigna? Because I would want to know from Vicky McClure.

Yeah, this is the thing is I've never been managed by Vicky because she manages the England side. And I'm always on the world 11, presumably because of my international appeal. Naturally. Yeah. But I, I reckon she's good in a dressing room. I reckon she's got that kind of, which sort of hinted to it, then she's just so encouraging, which especially at soccer aid, but I imagine even more so at the Euros, you're surrounded by all these people with the analytics and the tactical

advice. But really you need somebody who's speaking to the heart, don't you? And she can play the different parts. Sometimes you need your manager to be a bit of a bulldozer. Sometimes you need them to put their arm around your shoulder. She can do all of them. My God, yeah. She's literally played it all, hasn't she? I think if she was like her role in Line of Duty, you'd bloody do as you were told, wouldn't you? You'd blooming do as you were told. Always. Yeah. Imagine, imagine if, if Serena does resign, I reckon we go McClure, Martin Compton and Adrian, what's his name? Adrian Dunbar. There we go. There we go. Those three would be pretty decent, wouldn't they? Yeah. Although you've then got a Scott and an Irishman in there as well. I don't know how much they love the England job.

They're not taking the England job at all are they? That's a big ask. We'll work on it. We'll work on it. We're in for such a month, Katie. This is going to be so, so exciting. You can hear more from Katie in Football Dailys and across Five Lives coverage throughout July. And I'll be back next week for the next fan diary, live from Zurich. I might have even had a tartar flet.