Column / Opinion
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·p.3
Jen O'Neill introduces a free, smaller special issue built around the SSE Women's FA Cup final, and explains the tradition behind its centrepiece: for well over a decade She Kicks has run slightly alternative…
Match report
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.10–11
West Ham United reached a first FA Women's Cup final in a nervy shootout at Adams Park, Cho So-hyun striking the winner after both sides had missed two spot-kicks. Rachel Furness had headed Reading…
Interview
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.12–14
Matt Beard was ten and standing behind the goal at Wembley when Lawrie Sanchez headed Wimbledon past Liverpool in 1988, and he draws the obvious parallel before taking West Ham there as underdogs. His…
Interview
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.15–17
Five trophies in, Nick Cushing says his appetite is at an all-time high, with a Continental Cup already won, the WSL title slipping towards Arsenal and a last-32 Champions League exit still smarting. He…
Other
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.18–19
Two pages of Opta data set the finalists side by side on their WSL form going into Wembley, and the gap is stark. Manchester City had played eighteen, won thirteen, drawn five and lost…
Interview
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.24–26
Ten years after leaving Celtic for Arsenal, Jennifer Beattie has settled into a centre-back partnership with Steph Houghton that has anchored Manchester City's unbeaten domestic season. She says City's willingness to build from the…
Interview
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.27–29
Gilly Flaherty will lead West Ham out for a fourth Wembley FA Cup final in five years, but insists it is nothing like routine. A seven-time winner with Arsenal and Chelsea, and holder of…
Other
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.30–33
West Ham's squad, assembled in six weeks for a first professional season, is introduced by two of its left-footers. Claire Rafferty and Rosie Kmita insist every player is lovely, then get specific. Becky Spencer…
News
·She Kicks, issue 53, April 2019 ·pp.4–6
Barclays becomes title sponsor of the FA Women's Super League from July 2019 in a multi-million-pound deal running to 2022, bringing an annual half-million-pound prize fund and lead partnership of the FA's Girls' Football…
Interview
·She Kicks, issue 53, April 2019 ·pp.62–63
Thirteen-year-old Grace Lawther of Boroughmuir Thistle sets six questions to Jane Ross, whom she admires for scoring important goals that helped Scotland qualify for the World Cup and for being friendly with fans. Ross,…