Issue
September 2012 18 articles indexed
Read She Kicks issue SK10 in full
Cover feature p.1
The cover of issue ten, dated September/October 2012, carries a Gavin Ellis photograph of Team GB players celebrating Steph Houghton's goal against New Zealand in the match that opened the London 2012 tournament in…
News pp.4–6
A three-page news round-up dominated by the aftermath of the Olympics. Pia Sundhage leaves the United States weeks after a second successive gold to return home as Sweden's national coach, replacing Thomas Dennerby. A…
Interview pp.8–10
Catherine Etoe interviews Carli Lloyd, who began the Olympic tournament on the bench but was thrown on when Shannon Boxx was injured early in the opening game and went on to score twice in…
Interview pp.12–13
An interview with Lisa Evans, the Perthshire striker who so impressed against Turbine Potsdam in Glasgow City's Champions League tie that the German champions offered her a professional contract for 2012-13 after a February…
Interview pp.14–15
An interview with Sophie Ingle, the Chelsea and Wales player who has just turned 21 and can play anywhere across the back or in midfield. Ingle says she was shocked to be asked to…
Interview pp.16–17
An interview with Emma Higgins, Northern Ireland's number one and one of four standby players who travelled, trained and lived the Olympic experience with Team GB. Higgins had injured her shoulder three weeks earlier…
Tournament feature pp.18–25
An eight-page picture-led gallery of the London 2012 women's tournament, compiled with Catherine Etoe and photographed by Gavin Ellis. It runs from Team GB's opening 1-0 win over New Zealand in Cardiff, decided by…
Other p.26
A page of captioned photographs from the FA Women's Super League season, split into sections headed Goals and Tackles. Jill Scott is pictured being mobbed after scoring Everton's second against Arsenal, Jodie Taylor celebrates…
Run-of-page feature p.27
An interview with Megan Harris, the 28-year-old Lincoln Ladies midfielder and community manager whose father Glen manages the club and whose sister Martha is also in the first team. Harris says she is used…
Run-of-page feature pp.28–30
A three-way interview with the goalkeepers voted into the magazine's FA Women's Premier League team of the year for 2011-12 by readers and followers: Cherie Rowlands of Barnet, Rachel Laws of Sunderland and Lauren…
Interview pp.32–33
A question-and-answer with Helena Pielichaty, author of the twelve-book Girls FC series published by Walker Books. Pielichaty explains that the idea grew from a suggestion by Helen Regan at Oxford University Press that she…
Run-of-page feature pp.34–35
Everton captain Jody Handley goes undercover to characterise her squad. Jill Scott would go furthest in the bleep test, having won the mini London marathon as a child with what Handley calls a Phoebe…
Run-of-page feature p.36
The grassroots slot goes to Spain for Athletic Club Bilbao, introduced by club captain and Spain international Iraia Itureggi. The parent club was founded in 1898 and, besides Barcelona and Real Madrid, is the…
Run-of-page feature p.37
A catch-up with Sammy Britton, the dreadlocked, plain-talking South Yorkshire midfielder who played for England at the 1995 World Cup and Euro 2001 and won league and cup titles with Arsenal, across a career…
Run-of-page feature pp.38–39
The young player questionnaire features Jessica Lucy Sigsworth, a 17-year-old centre forward with Doncaster Rovers Belles who supports Manchester United. Known simply as Jess, she picks centre forward for the chances to score and…
Run-of-page feature pp.38–39
The second young player profiled is Rebecca Egerstrom, a 14-year-old goalkeeper with Vale Girls Football Team who supports FC Barcelona and answers to Bec, Begastrom or simply Keeps. She chose goalkeeping because it lets…
Run-of-page feature p.40
A first-person piece by Jane Simms, a married mother of two from Halifax who has been refereeing for nine years after her father, himself a referee and now an FA assessor, suggested she try…
Other p.42
The fun page marks the FA WSL top-two meeting between Everton and Arsenal on 19 August, which ended 2-2 and featured nine Team GB Olympians, by making seven alterations to a photograph of the…
