Column / Opinion
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·p.3
Jen O'Neill writes at the end of a season she measures in crowds: an SWPL best of 15,822 at Celtic Park, a packed Kingsmeadow and Leigh Sports Village, almost 45,000 at the Wolfsburg-Freiburg Pokal…
Match report
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·pp.6–8
A world-record crowd for a domestic women's game, 77,390, filled a sunny Wembley to watch cup-final debutants Manchester United have the better of a first half they could not convert. Chelsea, some way off…
Other
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·pp.8–9
She Kicks worked the concourse at a sold-out Wembley and came back with three groups. Michael and David, long-time Chelsea fans from Stoke Newington, follow the women because it is more entertaining than the…
Other
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·pp.16–17
Twelve pictures from the closing two months of the Barclays Women's Super League season, captioned in full. Beth England celebrates one of two goals in the 4-1 win over Reading that kept Spurs up;…
Interview
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·pp.18–19
A Leicester City product who made her name in midfield at Doncaster Rovers Belles and as a combative striker for Birmingham City in the early WSL, Rachel Williams scored the goal that took Manchester…
Interview
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·pp.24–27
At 32 Victoria Williams got an email from the Jamaican federation telling her she had been selected, and at 33 she is close to a World Cup. Her father is Jamaican and she had…
Match report
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·pp.46–48
Poppy Wilson's 17th-minute header, nodded in from a Gemma Davison cross, returned Watford to the Barclays Women's Championship a year after relegation on the last kick of 2021-22, and settled the last play-off decider…
Match report
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·p.47
A late, late winner by midfielder Rebecca Anderson gave Nottingham Forest the FA Women's National League Cup in a pulsating final at Burton Albion's Pirelli Stadium, watched by 1,358. Forest had to come from…
Interview
·She Kicks, issue 79, June 2023 ·pp.49–53
Bristol City's promotion back to the WSL was sealed with a game to spare, and the trophy then toured the city so thoroughly that a message went round the staff group the next morning…
Column / Opinion
·She Kicks, issue 78, April 2023 ·p.3
Jen O'Neill marks 25 years since the first issue of a women's football magazine she worked on, and uses the anniversary to say goodbye to two people rather than to celebrate herself. Helen Ward's…