Interview
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·pp.64–65
Twelve-year-old Annie Kemp of Brandon United, who travelled to France to watch Scotland play England and Japan, puts her own questions to Zoe Ness, and gets unusually thoughtful answers. Ness started after a flyer…
Other
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·pp.66–68
Three young players take the reader questionnaire. Eveie Grace Stoker, nine, of Washington United Lionesses plays midfield, does a Washy chant before every game and names Fran Kirby as her hero for playing for…
Column / Opinion
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·p.3
Editor Jen O'Neill opens the first issue of the post-World Cup season and finds the promised legacy actually arriving. The opening weekend of the Barclays FA WSL brought record crowds, intense football and, she…
News
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·pp.4–7
The first news pages of the new season are dominated by the World Cup's consequences. Pia Sundhage becomes the first foreign manager of any Brazil national team; Vera Pauw takes over the Republic of…
Interview
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·pp.10–12
Arsenal's summer signing from Bayern Munich talks to She Kicks after a Netherlands summer that ended in a World Cup final. Jill Roord came off the bench against the United States in Lyon, and…
Match report
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·p.23
Scotland began their Euro 2021 campaign by beating Cyprus 8-0 at Easter Road in front of 6,200 supporters, with Kim Little scoring five. It was their first outing since the World Cup, and Shelley…
Cover feature
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·pp.24–28
Scotland's goalkeeper had just seventeen caps when she walked out in Nice to face England in her country's first Women's World Cup match, having spent years behind Gemma Fay and Shannon Lynn. Lee Alexander…
Tournament feature
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·pp.30–35
She Kicks asks eleven international reporters to mark France 2019 before it fades, rating the team they covered and VAR out of ten and naming what impressed and what surprised them. The scores diverge…
Run-of-page feature
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·pp.38–39
For twenty years the Football Supporters' Federation had run fans' embassies at men's tournaments; in 2019, after what She Kicks describes as a year or two of pestering by its own editor and following…
Interview
·She Kicks, issue 56, October 2019 ·pp.40–43
Sweden's attacking midfielder ranks World Cup bronze alongside Olympic silver, and is clear about why a side ranked ninth finished third: team spirit, an analyst team she rates highly, and a refusal to study…