Issue
February 2013 25 articles indexed
Read She Kicks issue SK12 in full
Cover feature p.1
The cover of issue twelve, dated February 2013 and priced £2.75, is given over to a shot promoting npower's 'What's Your Goal?' campaign, which the magazine explains is there to publicise a competition celebrating…
News pp.4–6
A three-page news round-up. Abby Wambach is voted FIFA Women's World Player of the Year for 2012 ahead of Marta and Alex Morgan, while Pia Sundhage, now back as Sweden's head coach, takes the…
Interview pp.8–9
An interview with Birmingham City midfielder Jo Potter, who opens by wincing at the silliest thing she has said on television, describing Kaz Carney as 'quicky' when she meant quick and tricky, though Gabby…
Interview pp.10–12
An interview with Lucy Staniforth, who has moved from Lincoln to Bristol Academy, caught just after England's January training camp in La Manga. She says something about Bristol, the place and the club, intrigued…
Interview pp.14–15
Catherine Etoe interviews Gemma Davison, back at Arsenal for a fourth spell after winning the WPS championship with Western New York Flash. The 25-year-old describes a first Super League season she enjoyed, admitting it…
Interview pp.16–17
An interview with Simone Magill, the 18-year-old Northern Ireland under-19 captain and senior international voted Euro Electrix Northern Ireland Women's FA Player of the Year in December for the second time. Magill says it…
Interview pp.18–19
She Kicks interrupts a Pritt-Sticking session, in which Liverpool's staff are attaching high and low intensity labels to players' drinks bottles, to talk to manager Matt Beard about a winter of change. The former…
Interview pp.20–21
Catherine Etoe interviews Emma Hayes ahead of her first full season as Chelsea manager, drawing on twelve years coaching in the American W-League and WPS, including the technical director's role at Western New York…
Interview pp.22–23
An interview with Mark Nisbet, a former semi-professional with Forfar West End who hung up his boots at 25 to commit to Forfar Farmington and was named Scottish Coach/Manager of the Year at the…
Interview p.24
A Twitter interview conducted entirely in tweets with Rhonda Jones, the Celtic defender voted Scottish FA International Player of the Year, ten questions and ten answers. Jones says the award sits in her cabinet…
Other p.24
A sidebar listing the winners at the 2012 Scottish Women's Football awards, held at Hampden Park in late November. Rhonda Jones of Celtic takes the Scottish Football Association International Player of the Year award,…
Interview p.25
An interview with goalkeeper Bethany-May Howard, who has earned a scholarship to Rider University in New Jersey. She began playing mixed football at her village primary school, where the kits were so large she…
Poster pp.26–27
A two-page poster spread of the United States forwards Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan, photographed by Brad Smith for ISIPhotos. The only text is a caption recording that Wambach was voted FIFA World Player…
Run-of-page feature pp.28–29
A day in the life of Tracy Lewis, the FA's Head of Physiotherapy for the women's game, set out in her own words and split between life on the road and off it. She…
Run-of-page feature pp.30–31
Five managers describe how they prepare and deliver a pre-match team talk. Mick Mulhern of Sunderland says he over-prepares for the biggest games and decides on the morning what to use, but still favours…
Column / Opinion p.32
The first of a new reader opinion slot, in which Chris Weston, a referee of forty years who has given up on the men's game, argues against the pre-match huddle. He complains that what…
Run-of-page feature pp.33–35
A three-part round-up from the lower reaches of the game. 'Cup Crusaders' hears from managers whose sides enjoyed FA Cup runs: Andy Holdaway of Colne Valley, proud to be the last team from their…
Tournament feature pp.36–37
Ekaterina Grishenkova reports from Moscow on the first Russian women's championship played on an autumn-to-spring calendar, which kicked off on 23 August 2012 as the twenty-first and most unusual edition. She traces the competition…
Run-of-page feature pp.38–39
Goalkeepers Toni-Anne Wayne and Zoe Lipley-Hinton hand out imaginary 'Iron' awards to the West Ham United Ladies squad. Vicky King is Little Miss OCD for her neatly set out clothes, Sam Rowland takes both…
Run-of-page feature pp.42–43
A first-person piece by Mel Knock, a 19-year-old Level 7 referee from Shropshire, the first woman on the University of Gloucestershire's refereeing scholarship and part of the FA's Young Referee Development Programme, three years…
Run-of-page feature p.43
Sisters Eleasha and Shannon Hyner introduce Ridgewaye Girls, who play in the under-15 section of the Kent Girls and Ladies Football League alongside eleven other teams from south-east London and Kent, and have won…
Run-of-page feature p.44
The young player questionnaire features Olivia Charlotte Atkinson, an 11-year-old who plays for Leicester City's Centre of Excellence under-13s but supports Nottingham Forest. She loves midfield for the involvement and the goalscoring chances, and…
Run-of-page feature p.45
The second young player profiled is Kyla Love, a 17-year-old left winger who plays for Easton College Academy and Norwich City Ladies and supports Norwich City. She picks the left wing for the space…
Run-of-page feature p.46
A profile of Philippa Tuttiett, a 29-year-old striker with Cyncoed Ladies who is also a Welsh Rugby Union player and a rugby sevens international, works as managing director of Female Builders and presents a…
Run-of-page feature p.47
Manager Wayne Jeremiah introduces P.I.L.C.S, formed in July 2011 as the senior team of Mardy Tigers Girls Football Club and renamed after moving to the P.I.L.C.S ground in Pontypool. Playing in green and white…
