The Rest Is Football: Daly Brightness - Q&A: Our Love Of December, Pitch Perfect And Yorkshire Puddings Filled With Stuffing

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

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search British Gas, peak save to start saving. Up to 60 kilowatts per session, eligible tariff and smart meter required. Welcome to Daily Brightness, our Q&A episode, our favourite episode. Because we actually just get to just like really dig deep into these questions and I love that the fans think about them. So let's dive straight into it.

I'm so excited from... Okay, the first question was what did Rach do for a birthday? All I'm going to say is, rewind, listen to our previous episode and you'll hear all about it. Second question, what's your favourite month of the year? December! You know why that is?

Because it's my birthday and it's Christmas. Especially this year because it's my besties, it's been a birthday, which it is every year. but this year in particular my best date is getting married. I'm not sure if I mentioned it or if we've said it on the party before

but she's getting married I'm so excited but I love December anyway it's like just pure like it's just I just love it everything, it's Christmas everyone seems a little bit happier and yeah it's the best month

I love it 100% absolutely agree I couldn't agree more December Sagittarius baby let's go let's go next question oh what's your go to feel good film for a cozy night in I don't think I've got a go

to because I don't often watch ones on repeat unless it's Happy Gilmore. Oh, I do. But I think that this time of the year, for me, 100% home alone or the holiday. Oh, the holiday. That's a brilliant shout. I would say my go-to, I'll go with Christmasy one, Grinch or Elf.

I can watch those on repeat. I can literally watch it all night on repeat. I think that's something that I can do in my head as well. But a go-to feel good, pitch perfect, and watch the first one until the end and just keep going on, Luke. Love it. Nice. Okay. What is your favourite part of Christmas dinner.

Yorkshire puddings, Yorkshire puddings, Yorkshire puddings. Oh, there's too many, but there's a combination, right? Oh, I love stuffing. Do you put your stuff in your Yorkshire pudding, though, and fill it with gravy? Gravy, yeah. That, but we have pigs in blanket,

but Menando's cheese in blanket. I don't really like pigs in blankets, May. What? Yeah, I don't get it. Actually, that's a red flag. All right, call me a red flag. I'm a walking one. I just don't get it.

Like, either have sausage or have bacon, don't need both. Can you just try cheese? I'm going to get my nan to do something. I'll bring some to you for Christmas. She does cheese wrapped in bacon. Oh my God, it just melts. Oh, my God. It's making my mouth water.

It's the best part. It's the best thing ever. Shout out to Margaret. Thanks, Gran. Love you. I send some to me, Margaret. I will. Margaret.

Margaret. What's that all? Have you got any pair of memory games? I just don't wait. She's hanging down ladder. What is it? Little Britain. Little Britain.

Migrant. I've got a gentleman down here and he's looking for some pair of memory games, age 4 to 8. You are? I've got a gentleman down here. Moving on. Girls, where is your happy place outside of football? Good question. I like this one.

Home? I'd say home. I'd say, well, the stables is my therapy place. But I'd say walking the dogs. Anywhere with like limited people, amazing. in views and just sitting in silence a little bit because my head's so chaotic. Home, dog walk, or house shopping.

But if you ask me to sit in silence at home, I wouldn't be able to do it. I can't sit still for long enough. I like get up and need to do something. Yeah, in my own place, my head can be still and it's just like, oh, zen, nice. I like to go like round the lake. We've got a lake around us and go for water on that.

Well, you went with us, didn't you? It's nice. Yeah, that was such a nice walk. I really enjoyed doing that. Yeah, beautiful that. Yeah, I'd say dog walk in, stables. If you had to switch lives with anyone in your team, who would it be and why? I'd pick Sarah so I'd know what it would like to live with me.

Can we move the living room? Can you just lift this table up? Yeah, I want to see how I know you actually am. Who would have picking my team? Surely it's got to be like Lucy, like to get in her, think in her mind for a day. Yeah, I'd want to know. Oh, I've always said Sam because I want to be able to do a backflip. Fair.

I want to know what that feeling's like when you're just in air and you're just like Why don't you learn that? Besty, you're joking? My back could snap. No, but just try. All right, well, any gymnastics clubs want to take me on?

I think you should do it in the New Year's resolution for next year. Freaking heck. I think I might end up paralysing hospital. All right, then, New Year, Millie's going to learn how to do a backflip. Whether I'm going to complete it or not is another thing but also I might actually...

Oh, let's do that as a take donations and we'll raise money for charity. I'm not doing that. I've already got a terrible back. I can't do that. I will do it, but you can help me raise the money and then we'll send it to charity. I'll just be your cheerleader and go, give me an eh. Oh my God.

Why is a toothbrush not called a teeth brush? That's a fantastic question. However, I would argue that you should probably brush every tooth. Yeah, but your teeth, you're just saying it's as a collective. I mean, it makes sense, call it a teethbrush. But it sounds awful. I can't say it. Teethbrush.

Don't you ever think that? this is where my head goes like and then I start thinking what is space what is earth? Why is this? Why is that? Don't get me started. I do this every day. Why does the body? Who create the body? Why is it? Why do we look like this? Why is a heart a heart? Who said a fork because of fork? Like that's

where my head goes and I'm like it sounds weird like teethbrush only sounds weird because someone decided to invent toothbrush. Yeah exactly. Why is Millie a name? That could have been a word for a tree. Sorry darling. Can't answer your question. Okay let's go on to the next one. Would you rather be a butterfly or an octopus?

Octopus. Octopus. I want to be at sea. I'm a water baby. I don't want to be a butterfly. Get me in there. Do you know how fast octopus can move as well? No, they're scary looking there.

They fit in all those little rock pools, change colour and everything. They taste nice. Oh, can you share with us your Spotify wrapped? I've not even looked at mine. I've not even had time. So my top artist is Yellow Wolf. You might not have heard of him. It's like country rap a little bit.

It's really good. Post Malone. He's up there. NF. Don't know if you've heard of him. Luke. Combs. I do know an F and I do know Luke Combs. They're my, they're my favourite ones. So they're my top artist. My top song is you and me, Yellow Wolf. If you don't know it, get to know it.

I'm not going to lie. I actually haven't got a clue what this rap thing is. It's basically like it tells you, you click on it and it tells you like your top artist, your top songs, what you've listened to the most. I could tell you that. That's it basically, best. This Christmas, we're partnering with Tesco. We do get a winter break, but it never fully feels like switching off. So, How do WSL players juggle family time and the game at Christmas? Well, Rach, I think we're very fortunate enough that we don't actually have games over Christmas. I think having that Christmas break is amazing. It gives us time with our family's done it.

But I still think we have to train. It's definitely not a period where you can go wild and just not do any sessions. Because come January, I think it's normally like the second week in January, you're straight back into competitive games. But I think we're very fortunate where we don't have to play. on Christmas Day, New Year's Day, we kind of get that time with loved ones. Yeah, I think it is obviously a period of time where you can switch off a little bit. Christmas is always a nice period for everyone and, you know, especially for footballers,

it's like your big break other than the summer, but it's just managing what you do and, you know, you can't be doing what all your friends are doing back home and you've got to sort of rain it in a little bit and obviously we have sessions, a lot of sessions over the Christmas break, knowing that come January 1st, second, third, whatever it may be, you're back in, ready to hit the ground running and like Millie said, less than two weeks later, you've got a game straight back into it. But yeah, it's definitely a nice period of time where we get off and everyone looks forward to sort of the halfway point in the season, really. It's like a little reset, isn't it? I think it's, you get to that and kind of breaks up the

season. And I think if you think about the players that we have in our league, everyone, a lot of players are playing overseas and away from home, away from family, even the kind of England-based players, you're still away from your family's majority of people. So it is like that little reset marker, and I think everyone is in different situations and everyone's circumstances might be a little bit different. So that Christmas break is really, really valued by all the players. For me, this year, I'm going back home for the whole duration, so I'm really, really excited about that.

I can't wait to wake up on Christmas Day with my mum and dad, and, you know, they're in their new house now at the field, so I kind of wait. that's like my little therapy bubble. I cannot wait to wake up there and, yeah, just be with family, be with the animals. My dad will definitely be making us a few snowballs so can't wait to see me on those again.

And yeah, you kind of just let your hair down at the right moments. I think you pick and choose your days, don't you, to have a little drink, you know, quality street is an after-rates are my favourite at Christmas time, oh my God. So yeah, we definitely let our hair down and then, yeah, you kind of pick and choose.

Usually days that you're going to put in the work again to make sure you're ready for training come that second of Jan or third of Jan whenever teams come back in. I think food is a big part of Christmas, isn't it? I think obviously people are eating their Christmas dinners. But for me, it's the lead up to Christmas, you know, the cheese and crackers and mince pies. Tesco's finest mince pies. No, those little salt, what, those little, the caramel with chocolate on top and like the millionaire shortbread.

Yes. Oh my gosh. That's not a Christmas thing. I don't care best of the day go down well at Christmas. No, but my Christmas, I'm not having a Christmas dinner this year. I think my Christmas this year looks a hell of a lot different than in what it usually does. What you're replacing your Christmas dinner with? I've been omen and iron at this point, so I'm not too sure, but I'm thinking of going a little bit more on the healthier side

because obviously I have a wedding to fit in and that's basically my Christmas dinner. Oh crap, I've got a bridesmaid dress to fit in, so maybe it should be thinking about pinksy blankets. I'll be going on a Tesco juice cleanse over this Christmas period. Maybe I'll still be having my Christmas dinner, but I'll maybe go carb-free in a little bit. Maybe I'll downsize on the volume of pigs in blankets and those little millionaires shortbreads that I have. But yeah, Tesco's fine and she can't beat it.

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Welcome back guys Questions so far I've been popping We are excited for the second half If you were to only eat one food For the rest of your life What would it be? Potatoes

And you want to know why Are you having gravy on them? They're versatile So you could have New potatoes, bowl potatoes Shacket potatoes, mashed potatoes chips That's very true

Okay next question What made you choose your shirt numbers Why four and why nine? I don't actually have a reason for mine. It was just the best number that I could pick and now I wouldn't choose anything else. I pick number nine because obviously I play in that position and my dad played in the shirt number nine.

So always in the family. Daily nine. Yeah, mine don't actually have a meaning, so... I was three for the longest time in my career. But yeah, when I came back to England, I wanted to be... Yeah, I wanted to wear my dad's number. That's really cute.

Next up, what's the best concert you have been to? If there's a bad concert you've been to, what is it? I've never been to a bad concert because I just love music. So honestly, music can just make me happy. So I'm into one, but my favourite was Dermott Kennedy. One thing actually I keep saying to my sisters is one little thing we want to do is like a little memory thing is when we were little, we always used to listen to pink. That was like family portrait, just like a pill.

And she's going to be touring. Keep making me better. But yeah, we want to go. So whenever she's touring next, I'm going to get tickets for us because that's like a little childhood memory. I think it would be really, really cute. Yeah, nice. Love that.

Moving on. Sure question. What's the funniest or most ridiculous rumor you've heard about yourselves? Do you know what the one I have for you? That I was in a relationship with you. With Caycedo. I was watching this thing. And I was thinking, is it real and she's not told me?

I was like, all these facts about you. That's not real. I think you actually sending me was like, Mill have you seen this? But yeah, when people used to say oh, Millie and Rachel in a relationship. Yeah, that is. That is the most funny as ridiculous.

That's wild. Like, God forbid your best friends with someone. I think it's when we said we had a bath together. Then everyone was, oh, they're in a relationship together. No, she's just literally my sister. Like, we're just, we just have that closeness. Like, it's fine. But yeah, I'd say that was the worst one.

What's the most meaningful gift you have ever given each? other. That's a nice question. All right. I think the one I got you was your 30th birthday book. I was just going to say that, the book. You know, it's on my bedside, it's upstairs in my bedroom. It taught me ages to do that. It was so nice. Basically,

for my 30th, Rach got me a book and it was like from the start of our journey, our friendship to the end and it was all our special moments with loads of little bits of writing on inside and it was honestly, we sat there and sobbed, didn't we? I remember we were sat in that place where I had my party and moved. It was like,

We just get, everyone came to us and we were like, we just have it a moment. Can you leave us alone, please? Maybe we can show parts of that to some of the people on the podcast. Yeah, we'll actually. I'll take some pictures and I might do a little video of it and show you guys. And I think mine to you. I think it's the gift you just gave me recently. I'll tell them.

So I got both Sarah and Rach a little, this is one of their wedding gifts, by the way. But this was like the sentimental one. and my friend Claire, she like makes jewellery and this is like, it's like the, when you're getting married, it's like something old, something new, something borrowed and it's like a little paper, something blue and it's like a little paper clip and you can personalise what's on it. So on Rachel's, the personalised bit was I had it engraved with her butterfly tattoo and it's 2-2-2. And then on the other side, on one of the notes, something that she always said when she lost her dad was, he'd have the best seat in the house.

So that was my little no. Yeah, really thoughtful. That was very thoughtful. And Sarah's, I was like, thanks for taking care of my angel because for me, Rach is an angel. She's golden inside and out. And yeah, Jesus, life would not be possible without you.

So you are definitely my angel. Don't be silly. Don't be silly. That was my, probably, yeah, I'd say that. I loved that. Yeah, it was something to keep forever. And maybe it would be your lucky charm moving forward. I hope so.

When is Rache going to do her accents for us? Good question, Lills, because I'm waiting for the damn thing as well. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Just give us one. It's not fair. Maybe, maybe down the line with what we're hoping to do in the future, you know what I'm talking about. I'll do it then.

If you know, you know. I'll do it then. All right, Lills, I'm going to hold her to it. And in the new year, there's something very exciting and I think it'll be better to do it then. You'll know why later. Right, what was your secondary school experience like? Terrible. Are you going to expand?

I never get when, like, I just wish that when people say, oh my God, I'd do anything to have my school years, but I just wish I had that experience. I think I was bullied for the majority of school. Was always the odd one out, was like never in the group. And that was fine. Like, I'm not really bothered. I'm not like a crowd pleaser.

I don't want to follow the crowd. And I think, like, I think as I've got older, less is more anyway. my circle's like really, really tight and small and I prefer it that way, like, less people, it's nice. But yeah, it was awful. I hated it. I hated every little bit of school.

Yeah, I mean, my experience wasn't bad in terms of that. I mean, granted, I did get picked on quite a bit because I looked like a little boy. You look cute, you're a little short hair. But I just couldn't get on board with school. And I'm not the most, like, book-smart kind of person. And I just wanted to be playing football. I wanted to be out on the playground.

I wanted to play football. I wanted to play with the boys and I'm very much like if I'm not good at something I get pissed off so when I couldn't work out what 3X plus Y was I wanted to tip the table up

yeah I do think I am going to say it out of there controversial or not I'm going to say out there I do think schools need to change the way they're structured I don't think school prepares you for life

I think the maths classes yeah they could talk about how to get a mortgage how to tax investment taxes exactly Not like A squared times three is QB What is getting a house

What does it look like? How do you Like when I was a minefield When I was trying to get a mortgage I was like what? But I used to have this argument with my master teacher I say what do I need this for? And I'll say well you never know

I was like well I know for a fact I will not need algebra And I'll just get a calculator Because guess what this day and age Technology is everything Nothing is done GPD darling Thank you

I get AI to do it No, school is massively important, but I do think there are things that I would add to the curriculum that might be a little bit more beneficial. It needs to suit all individuals because if you're not, like, I'm definitely not academic. I'm not academic at all. No, me either. I had to really work hard. Yeah, I couldn't revise, couldn't retain information.

I didn't want to learn about things I didn't need. If you ask my mum, she'll tell you all my report card said, Rachel has a brain, she just doesn't know how to use it. Distracting behaviour. But stay in school kids. Don't be naughty. On that note, that is all we've got time for today, guys. Thank you for joining us. It's been another fun episode for us

and we will be back after the weekend. So have a great weekend. Take care. We love you. Peace. Love you all.