Issue
January 2016 40 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill bids farewell to 2015, listing what made it: the World Cup in Canada, a Women's FA Cup final at Wembley, significantly higher WSL attendances and more full-time contracts, Chelsea's double and Glasgow…
News pp.4–5
Lucy Bronze becomes the first female footballer shortlisted for BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and Mark Sampson makes the FIFA World Coach of the Year shortlist alongside Jill Ellis and Norio Sasaki. Bristol…
News p.6
The Champions League round of 16 produces some tight ties, though Wolfsburg dismiss Chelsea with relative ease, early goals in both legs carrying them to a 4-1 aggregate win. Frankfurt blow a two-goal first-leg…
Other pp.8–9
On a blustery night in north west London, Wembley Stadium's arch lit purple, the 2015 FA Women's Football Awards celebrated the achievements of players, coaches and administrators across the English game. Despite the posh…
News p.10
The full roll of winners from the 2015 FA Women's Football Awards. Lucy Bronze takes Vauxhall England Player of the Year and Beth Mead the Young Player award, Mead completing a treble with WSL…
Poster p.11
A full-page poster of Sunderland forward Beth Mead, captioned with the three honours she collected at the 2015 FA Women's Football Awards: Vauxhall England Young Player of the Year, FA WSL 1 Players' Player…
Interview pp.12–15
Jill Scott, England's ninth centurion after her 100th appearance against Australia in China, admits a degree of disbelief at being named alongside the calibre of players in the hundred club, especially thinking back to…
News pp.17–18
The last week of November brought a glut of Euro 2017 qualifiers and mixed fortunes for the home nations. England, fresh from a goalless friendly draw in Germany, found it hard going in horrendous…
Interview pp.19–21
Jayne Ludlow, who won every trophy going in thirteen years at Arsenal and represented Wales 61 times, sums up her first year as national head coach as one hell of an education with plenty…
Interview p.22
Introducing herself as the magazine's new columnist, Reading striker and Wales Players' Player of the Year Helen Ward describes herself as first and foremost a wife and mother, who also finds time to be…
Column / Opinion p.23
In her first column Helen Ward assesses Jayne Ludlow as a manager, saying the players are all still learning that, Ludlow included. As a player Ludlow hid nothing and did not hold back on…
News p.24
The FA People's Cup returns after an inaugural competition that drew more than 30,000 entrants. AFC Kempston Girls took the Under-14 title in 2015, Cambridge United edged Ole United at Under-16 level, and Liverpool…
Match report p.25
Arsenal claim a fourth Continental Cup crown in five years, beating Notts County 2-0 at Rotherham United in front of 5,028, through two Jordan Nobbs strikes and the controversial sending off of the Lady…
Interview pp.26–28
Arsenal midfielder Jordan Nobbs reflects on an injury-affected 2015 that ended with a Continental Cup final brace. Finishing third in the league is still disappointing after five years at the club, she says, but…
Other pp.29–31
Players and coaches from across the game name their best footballing moment of 2015, a Christmas wish and a new year resolution. Steph Houghton picks winning World Cup bronze with England and captaining her…
Interview pp.32–33
Abby Wambach closes a fourteen-year international career in New Orleans having won virtually every honour available: Olympic gold, a FIFA Ballon d'Or and, in 2015, a World Cup. The biggest thing she feels is…
Interview pp.34–35
Liverpool goalkeeper Danielle Gibbons describes having an acoustic neuroma, a benign brain tumour, removed on 6 July after it unexpectedly grew. Because the surgery severed her hearing and balance nerves on the left side…
Poster pp.36–37
A double-page poster of Manchester City and England defender Lucy Bronze, captioned as the 2015 Vauxhall England Player of the Year. It marks the year in which Bronze scored in both the round of…
Poster p.38
A full-page poster of Scotland forward Jane Ross, printed without further caption. It appears in an issue reporting her four goals in Scotland's 10-0 Euro 2017 qualifying win over Macedonia, a result that kept…
Run-of-page feature p.40
Scottish club Glasgow Girls FC completed a historic tour of Gambia, closing with a match against the Gambia women's national team on 24 November at the Serekunda East mini stadium in front of 2,500…
News p.45
Essex County FA reports a thriving female game built on a Girls Centre of Excellence licence, one of only a limited number in England, accommodating nearly 80 players aged seven to seventeen in four…
News p.46
Nottingham Forest lead the FAWPL Northern title race with Stoke second, though Sporting Club Albion may be best placed with games in hand. The Southern top spot is hotly contested, Brighton leading from Charlton…
Interview p.46
Wolves captain and assistant manager Anna Parks, who has played for the club since she was nine, explains how a disappointing relegation allowed the side to rebuild and give younger players a greater opportunity,…
Interview p.47
Nottingham Forest midfielder Charlie Griffin, in her fifth season at the club after starting in a boys' primary school team and moving through Asfordby Amateurs and Marlborough Rovers, explains a change of fortunes after…
News p.47
Blackburn, Brighton, Nottingham Forest, Spurs and Stoke reach the FAWPL Cup quarter-finals, Stoke converting two penalties after a Bradford miss. Coventry, Gillingham, Keynsham and the Loughborough pair of Foxes and Students are through to…
Interview p.48
London Corinthians veteran Emily Read describes a regional-league side beating two FAWPL teams in November. Having been knocked out by Lowestoft in the last few minutes the previous season, the squad travelled with revenge…
Other p.49
A caption-led picture panel from around the leagues and cups. Caroline Cooper of Newcastle tangles with Denbigh Town's Joanna McKinney in the FAW Cup, and Aberystwyth's Gabi Hughes collides with Llandudno goalkeeper Jessica Hughes…
Interview pp.50–51
Colin Bell, the first English coach to win the UEFA Women's Champions League, leaves 1. FFC Frankfurt after Mandy Islacker's injury-time winner against Paris Saint-Germain delivered a record fourth continental title, and heads to…
Interview p.52
Colin Bell answers the magazine's recurring coach questionnaire. His favourite session is shooting, though more than just shooting: build-up play, attacking set plays and working through a defensive team. He names Jess Fishlock as…
Interview pp.54–55
Corporal Lucy-Rose Foreman of the Royal Military Police, an Initial Military Police Instructor responsible for taking recruits through 21 weeks of training, describes combining service life with football for the Adjutant General's Corps women's…
Other p.56
Carlisle Ladies became Carlisle United Ladies ahead of the 2011/12 season through a link-up with Cumbria's only professional sports club, under manager Tracy Gannon. The tie-up brought new opportunities including a dedicated goalkeeping coach…
Other p.57
Fourteen-year-old Jess Park from North Yorkshire, already an England Under-15 international, plays for the North Yorkshire Under-15 Girls Centre of Excellence and two school teams. Right-footed, she has worn 7, 11 and 10 and…
Interview pp.58–59
England forward Lianne Sanderson, whose 2015 took in a return to Arsenal, a spell with Portland Thorns and the penalty she won for Fara Williams' decisive goal against Germany, turns to music. The squad…
Other pp.60–61
The fourth part of the knee injury series turns to the posterior cruciate ligament, the lesser-known counterpart of the ACL. Dr Claire Minshull explains that the PCL attaches the tibia to the femur and…
Interview p.62
Sunderland's Beth Mead, WSL 1 Players' Player of the Year, takes the magazine through her matchday. She always has scrambled egg on toast made by her father, and says it is never the same…
Interview p.63
Charlton's Kit Graham, the FA WPL Southern Division's top scorer and Players' Player, takes the recurring car questionnaire. Her Vauxhall Corsa is called Donatello because she is a little obsessed with turtles, and as…
Interview pp.63–64
Birmingham City defender and midfielder Emily Westwood, a World Cup and Euros international and Everton cup finalist, answers the recurring kit questionnaire. Her first boots were second-hand Adidas, black with pink stripes; she now…
Interview p.65
Former England captain Faye White sets out what the armband demanded of her. She describes herself as a captain who led by example rather than by being vocal off the pitch, and identifies her…
Interview p.66
Glasgow City's Clare Shine, who scored a hat-trick in the Scottish Cup final win over rivals Hibernian as her club completed a domestic treble, describes a season of seventeen goals and two hat-tricks. Born…
Interview p.67
Gemma Gardiner from Clacton, a Level 7 referee awaiting a promotion decision, took her course at sixteen at her father's suggestion. She was the only girl on it and was determined to score highly…
