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195 articles indexed from the She Kicks and Her Goal archive
Also filed as Reading FC, Reading FC Women, Reading Ladies
Interview She Kicks, issue 59, March 2020 p.61
Reading's captain describes a leadership style built almost entirely on not pretending. Appointed regular skipper of the Royals in the summer, Tash Harding says she has taken bits from captains she has worked under…
Cover feature She Kicks, issue 58, January 2020 pp.14–19
Two interviews under one title, chosen to represent the two halves of a promoted squad. Ashleigh Neville came up through the Championship with Tottenham and gave up a teaching job in Birmingham over the…
Interview She Kicks, issue 58, January 2020 pp.54–55
The goalkeepers' slot goes to Mary Earps in her first season at Manchester United. She narrows her favourite save to two: a double save against Arsenal on her home debut, and a long-range strike…
Interview She Kicks, issue 58, January 2020 p.63
The driving slot goes to Lois Roche, the former Reading and Republic of Ireland Under-19 midfielder now with the Italian Serie A side Florentia San Gimignano, where Emma Lipman and Stephanie Roche also play.…
Poster She Kicks, issue 57, November 2019 p.34
A full-page poster of Rachel Rowe wheeling away after scoring a late winner for Wales in Belarus on 8 October 2019, in Euro 2021 qualifying. The caption reads the celebration as double-edged: relief and…
Interview She Kicks, issue 57, November 2019 pp.50–52
Reading have finished fourth and fifth in the last two WSL seasons and reached an FA Cup semi-final, and Kelly Chambers is adamant the Arsenal-Chelsea-Manchester City stronghold can be broken. She is candid that…
Interview She Kicks, issue 57, November 2019 p.53
The coaching questionnaire that runs alongside the main Reading interview. Kelly Chambers favours transitions and pressing work, and names Fara Williams as the player who has made the biggest impression on her - a…
Interview She Kicks, issue 57, November 2019 pp.57–58
The Locker Room's food slot goes to Liverpool and England forward Melissa Lawley, who opens by disqualifying fish entirely - the smell of salmon or tuna, on her plate or anyone else's - while…
Interview She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 pp.50–52
Vicky Jepson was a development squad manager promoted to first-team coach when Neil Redfearn resigned two games into the 2018-19 season, leaving her in interim charge of Liverpool alongside Chris Kirkland. At 32 she…
Interview She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 p.56
The Locker Room's match-day routine slot goes to the most-capped footballer in English history, and her answers are almost aggressively ordinary. Beans and cheese on toast before an early kick-off, more carbs through the…
