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Barclays FAWSL Action Gallery, 20 October – 8 December 2019
She Kicks, issue 58, January 2020 pp.12–13
Two pages of Barclays FA Women’s Super League action spanning 20 October to 8 December 2019, the stretch that took in the record-breaking weekends at Anfield and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Thirteen images run across the spread, shot by the FA’s photographers and PA, each captioned with a hashtag pun rather than a name, in the house style She Kicks uses for its match galleries. The selection catches celebrations, near misses, goalkeeping, dejection and the crowd-facing moments that defined a season in which average attendance rose 45 per cent. Read alongside the fans gallery later in the issue, it is the visual record of the first half of the first post-World Cup WSL season, and of a division being presented and photographed as a fully professional product.