Fran Kirby, 2018 PFA Players’ Player of the Year and FWA Player of the Year (double-page photograph)

A double-page photograph of Fran Kirby, captioned only with the two awards that made her season: the PFA Players’ Player of the Year, voted by the professionals she plays against, and the inaugural Football Writers’ Association Women’s Footballer of the Year, in which she took more than half a 22-strong panel’s vote. She appears in five separate places in this issue – the news pages twice, an Opta comparison with the forward she will face at Wembley, the semi-final in which she scored both Chelsea goals, and here. Published days before an all-London final, the spread reads as the magazine’s answer to its own head-to-head question about who has the edge.