Keep Kicking (Editor’s Letter)
Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill welcomes readers to the 'final' issue - the FA Cup final, she reassures them, not the last She Kicks - and promises a bumper Euros edition at the end of June. She…
Issue
She Kicks issue 41
May 2017 28 articles indexed
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News
News pp.4–6
The news pages open with the full World Cup 2019 qualifying draw, which puts England and Wales in the same group and pairs Northern Ireland with the Republic. Shelley Kerr is confirmed as Anna…
PFA Awards 2017: Lucy Bronze (interview)
Interview p.7
Collecting her second PFA Women's Player of the Year award, Lucy Bronze is more pleased by the company than the trophy: six of Manchester City's ten nominees came from her own dressing room and…
Jess Carter: Class Act (Jess Carter interview)
Interview pp.8–10
Four months into 2017 Jess Carter has reached a Wembley cup final, won the PFA Young Player of the Year award, made the WSL team of the year and been called into an England…
Skinner Wants Winners (Marc Skinner interview)
Interview pp.10–12
Five months into his first managerial job, Marc Skinner is leading Birmingham City out at Wembley and refuses to accept the underdog label against Manchester City. He does not turn up for work to…
Meet the Blues: Aoife Mannion on the Birmingham City Squad
Run-of-page feature pp.13–15
Centre back Aoife Mannion takes the reader through every member of the Birmingham City squad and staff ahead of the FA Cup final, and the result is far warmer than a squad list. Ann-Katrin…
Duggan Diggin’ The Big Occasion (Toni Duggan interview)
Interview pp.16–17
Seven years on from winning the FA Cup with Everton, Toni Duggan admits she remembers almost nothing of the day beyond Natasha Dowie's late goal, the cross she still claims as an assist, and…
Keira’s Key Role (Keira Walsh interview)
Interview p.18
Twenty-year-old Keira Walsh takes the loss of a Champions League semi-final to Lyon as an education rather than a disappointment: facing Dzsenifer Marozsan and Camille Abily taught her something, and a 1-0 win in…
Meet the Citizens: Karen Bardsley on the Manchester City Squad
Run-of-page feature pp.19–21
Manchester City's goalkeeper walks through the squad before Wembley with an eye for character as much as ability. Lucy Bronze simply wins at life and is the most competitive person Bardsley has met; Steph…
She Kicks Back – 4 Out of 4: The Almighty Arsenal (Arsenal’s 2006-07 Quadruple, ten years on)
Run-of-page feature pp.22–24
Ten years on from the week Arsenal completed a Quadruple no British team has matched, She Kicks gathers the people who did it. Lianne Sanderson, top scorer with forty-eight goals, calls it a journey…
All French Final: 2017 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final in Cardiff
Tournament feature p.25
With Lyon edging Manchester City 3-2 on aggregate and Paris Saint-Germain dismissing Barcelona 5-1, the Champions League final at Cardiff City Stadium will be an all-French affair. She Kicks sets the scene with the…
#LIONESSES: Ellen White Opens the Scoring v Austria (double-page photograph)
Poster pp.26–27
A double-page photograph of Ellen White wheeling away after opening the scoring in England's 3-0 win over Austria on 10 April 2017, run under the #LIONESSES banner. The image occupies both pages of the…
View From The Field: Kerys Kicks (Kerys Harrop column)
Column / Opinion p.28
Birmingham's captain writes with a fortnight to go before Wembley and makes no attempt to hide what it means to her. Reaching the final the hard way, past Arsenal and Chelsea, makes it sweeter,…
Kirk Keen To Close Gap On Top Teams (Willie Kirk interview)
Interview p.29
Newly recommitted to Bristol City, Willie Kirk frames the Spring Series as trial and error inside an eighteen-month project aimed at raising standards before the 2017-18 winter season proper. He describes a teaching method…
Two New Girls (Rachel Furness and Nia Jones interview)
Interview p.30
Two Spring Series newcomers introduce themselves to supporters who have only seen them play a few times. Reading's Northern Ireland midfielder Rachel Furness cries at sad films, is frightened of spiders and would head…
Female Students Get a Taste of a Career in Sport Media (UCFB and Sky Sports)
Other p.31
One hundred school girls went behind the scenes at Wembley Stadium for a Women in Sport Media day hosted by UCFB and Sky Sports, designed to show the range of jobs available in sport…
Gallery: Snaps and Action from the WSL 1 and 2 Spring Series, 16-30 April 2017
Other pp.32–33
A two-page photographic gallery covering the opening fortnight of the 2017 WSL 1 and 2 Spring Series, from 16 to 30 April. The images are captioned only with hashtags, which give the spread its…
View From The Field: Ward’s Words (Helen Ward column)
Column / Opinion p.34
Helen Ward calls the FA Cup final the pinnacle of the season and writes as someone who has been through three of them: a substitute's twenty-five minutes in a 2-0 Arsenal win in 2009,…
Kerr Lands Dream Coaching Job (Shelley Kerr appointed Scotland head coach)
Run-of-page feature p.35
Shelley Kerr, who dreamt as an eight-year-old of captaining her country and went on to do it, has been named Scotland's next head coach after beating more than fifty applicants. Congratulatory messages arrived from…
FAWPL and Around the Regions: Rovers and Spurs Set for Play-Off
News pp.36–37
Blackburn Rovers and Tottenham Hotspur have taken the Northern and Southern titles and will meet in a play-off for the FAWPL Championship and the right to apply for promotion to WSL 2. Gillingham and…
Lynda The Leader (Lynda Shepherd interview)
Interview pp.38–39
Blackburn's captain has had a whirlwind six months: crowned FAWPL Players' Player of the Year at Wembley in November, a league title by April, and a play-off with Spurs that she says will be…
Spurs Spurred On By WSL Aims (Jenna Schillaci interview)
Interview p.40
Tottenham's left back and captain describes a title won on seventeen unbeaten league games, sixteen of them victories, and puts it down to a strong team mentality, self-belief and coaching staff who work tirelessly…
She Kicks a Beat: Wilky Striking Sweet to the Soul (Hannah Wilkinson interview)
Interview p.42
New Zealand forward Hannah Wilkinson has played four major international tournaments, come back from an ACL injury between a World Cup and an Olympics, and carried a guitar through all of it. She started…
Around the Counties: London FA Onside With Doubling Participation
News p.44
London FA sets out what it is doing to support the FA's aim of doubling women's and girls' participation by 2020. It has joined the Amateur FA, Middlesex FA and the FA Coach Mentor…
Safe Hands: Kirstie Levell (Everton)
Interview p.45
Everton's goalkeeper picks a penalty shoot-out for England Under-17s at the Euros, where she saved two, as her favourite moment, on the grounds that those are the saves that really matter. She went in…
Born Kicking: Abi Hunt, and her prize-winning poem ‘Blue Moon Glory’
Other p.46
Abi Hunt went in goal at seven, has played for Everton and Manchester United and now keeps for Manchester City Under-12s, and answers the Born Kicking questions with the certainty of someone who knows…
#SKThrowback: Karen Carney Scores a Late Winner v Finland, Euro 2005 (full-page photograph)
Poster p.47
A full-page archive photograph marking almost twelve years to the day since a seventeen-year-old Karen Carney scored England's late winner against Finland at Euro 2005, the tournament England hosted and the goal that announced…
For Kicks & Giggles: Spot the Difference, Gone Bananas and Bizarre Press Shot
Other p.50
The issue signs off with its puzzle page. A Spot the Difference is built around Liverpool's new three-year shirt sponsorship with the cosmetics brand Avon, the magazine cheerfully noting that the club's kit man…