Issue
November 2016 31 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill salutes Manchester City as the team of the moment - WSL title, Continental Cup and into the Champions League last sixteen - and Glasgow City for an unprecedented tenth successive SWPL title.…
News pp.4–5
North Korea beat Japan on penalties in an all-Asian final in Jordan to become the first nation to win the Under-17 World Cup twice, England having gone out in the quarter-finals. Rachel Unitt and…
Match report p.7
England finished their Euro 2017 qualifying campaign with two wins to top the group and enter the November draw as top seeds. Danielle Carter scored her second international hat-trick in her second international appearance,…
Interview pp.8–10
Scotland qualified for Euro 2017, their first major finals, as one of the six best runners-up, after three successive play-off failures. Head coach Anna Signeul says the squad are still buzzing; captain Gemma Fay…
Run-of-page feature pp.12–13
Manchester City won their first FA WSL title on 25 September, beating second-placed Chelsea two-nil before a league record 4,096 at the Academy Stadium. Captain Steph Houghton, at the club since day one, notes…
Other pp.14–15
A double-page photographic gallery covering FA WSL 1 and 2 matches played between 10 September and 9 October 2016, the period in which Manchester City clinched the title. As with every other picture spread…
Interview pp.16–18
Liverpool's Dutch winger Shanice van de Sanden explains the lipstick that has caught the eye across the WSL: she started wearing it two years ago after cutting her hair very short, and now paints…
Column / Opinion p.19
Helen Ward reports mission accomplished: Reading have avoided relegation and secured top-flight football until at least summer 2018 because of the winter league's reintroduction, though one win does not reflect how they played and…
Other pp.20–21
A two-page Opta survey of the completed 2016 FA WSL 1 season. Chelsea scored most with 36 to Manchester City's 35, but City conceded just three goals all season against Doncaster's 46. Arsenal led…
Interview pp.22–23
Liverpool and England goalkeeper Siobhan Chamberlain, a digital ambassador for her club, discusses social media and the women's game at the Soccerex convention. Her Facebook following doubled during the 2015 World Cup, when a…
Interview p.24
Crewe Alexandra captain Katie Nuttall started at Burnley after signing at a friend's football birthday party, moved to Blackburn Rovers at sixteen where her game developed, and now leads a side newly promoted to…
News pp.24–25
Blackburn Rovers extend their lead over AFC Fylde and Middlesbrough at the top of the FAWPL Northern Division with a four-one win over Nottingham Forest, with Derby County a point behind Boro and a…
Interview p.25
Tottenham Hotspur manager Karen Hills, who won FA Cup and League Cup medals with Charlton as a player, says her squad know about her past mainly because she reminds them once a year when…
Other p.26
A nine-photograph gallery from the qualifying rounds and early league fixtures. Wolves Women celebrate a three-two win in the Women's FA Cup third qualifying round; Newbury edge Hertford Town two-one in the same round;…
Interview p.27
Seventeen-year-old Bridget Galloway has started the season with eleven goals in five games for Sunderland Ladies reserves and eleven in three for Gateshead College. Her target is a hat-trick a game and to top…
Poster pp.28–29
A double-page pull-out poster of Manchester City Women as 2016 FA WSL Continental Cup winners, credited to FA via Getty Images and carrying no text beyond the competition name and the club. It marks…
Interview p.31
England and Houston Dash forward Rachel Daly answers ten questions by tweet from Los Angeles, where she is training in the off season. She names her debut and goal for both Houston and England…
Interview pp.32–33
Hibernian's young number one Jenna Fife started in goal at Murieston United when the regular keeper was unavailable and simply stayed there, joining Hibs after training with them at sixteen. The SWPL Cup win…
Interview p.34
Alina Cheatham was born in Konakovo on the Volga in 1994 and adopted at three, with her sister Yana, by John and Mary Cheatham of Georgia, moving to the United States in 1997 and…
Interview p.35
Liverpool's youngest ever debutant, England Under-19 defender Maz Pacheco, moved to Doncaster Rovers Belles on a deadline-day loan for the rest of the season and scored her first goal at home to Sunderland in…
Interview pp.36–37
Pia Sundhage, who won Olympic gold with the United States in 2008 and 2012, took Sweden to their first ever Olympic football medal in Rio, losing two-one to Germany in the final. She learned…
Interview pp.37–38
Pia Sundhage answers the Coach Kicks questionnaire. She has no favourite session but believes in finding joy where you can, which is why everyone loves shooting. Asked which player made the biggest impression, she…
Other p.38
Eleven-year-old Poppy Honey Wannell from Wiltshire plays for Royal Wootton Bassett girls and supports Manchester City Women and Swindon Town's men. Strongest with her right foot but able to use both, she plays in…
Interview p.39
Magda Golba joined her local boys' team in Poland at twelve and trained with them for four years without being allowed to play games; at twenty she found a women's team sixty miles away…
Run-of-page feature pp.40–41
The second Position Guide page turns the format inward. Rather than profiling a player, it puts the same six questions the elite role models answer back to the reader, with coach Jazz Hervin's argument…
Interview p.42
Chelsea goalkeeper Frances Kitching went in net for her father's team Wickersley Youth because nobody else would, and got stuck there, discovering she was better in goal than as a striker. She names as…
News p.43
Lincolnshire FA reports growth built on three initiatives. Girls and Goals engages players aged eight to eleven at their local club, inviting clubs interested in developing girls' football to host an event aimed at…
Interview pp.44–45
Twelve-year-old Kizzy Blue Wade, known on court as the smiling assassin, plays powerchair football for the East Riding Electric Eels, formed in 2012 after a taster session in Hull. She has spastic quadriplegic cerebral…
Interview pp.48–50
Emma Coolen, twenty-two, from Son in the southern Netherlands and playing for Belgian side Moldavo, answers the Kit Check. Her first boots were dark blue and silver Nike Air Zoom Total 90s; she now…
Interview p.49
Bristol City and Wales midfielder Hayley Ladd, in her first season wearing the armband, describes herself as not a loud character but one who tries to lead by example through application, work ethic, performance…
Interview pp.50–51
Nicola Davidson, with more than 500 appearances for Forfar Farmington, describes her matchday. She varies her pre-match food week to week between cereal, porridge, toast with peanut butter and yoghurt with fruit, and for…
