Keep Kicking (Editor’s Letter)
Column / Opinion p.8
Jen O'Neill sets up the Euros issue with England's twenty-three named a full three months early and arriving, as far as anyone can tell, unscathed - a decision she reads as astute, and one…
Issue
She Kicks issue 42
July 2017 44 articles indexed
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News
News pp.8–11
Australia launch a government-backed bid for the 2023 World Cup, nine French cities are confirmed for 2019, and Kyiv takes the 2018 Champions League final. Lyon beat PSG on penalties in Cardiff in a…
Hope Powell: ‘Let Your Team Have an Opinion’
Interview p.10
Hope Powell sat down with UCFB to talk about how she built England squads, and the answer is less about tactics than about voices. She handpicked her staff, she says, specifically wanting people who…
It’s Here! (UEFA Women’s Euro 2017 guide introduction)
Tournament feature p.13
She Kicks opens its Euros coverage by laying out what makes this tournament different: sixteen teams for the first time, seven Dutch venues, and three weeks running from Utrecht on 16 July to Enschede…
England’s Lionesses: The Euro 2017 Squad
Run-of-page feature pp.15–20
All twenty-three of Mark Sampson's Lionesses, profiled with numbers, dates and a quote apiece, three months after a selection that raised eyebrows and now looks shrewd. She Kicks calls Karen Bardsley the number one…
Steph Houghton, England Captain (full-page photograph)
Poster p.21
A full-page portrait of Steph Houghton in England colours, closing the magazine's Lionesses squad guide before the individual interviews begin. It carries no text beyond the caption naming her as England captain and the…
England’s Bright Future (Millie Bright interview)
Interview pp.22–24
Millie Bright might have spent this summer at dressage events rather than a European Championship. Brought up on a family yard near Sheffield, riding from the age of two or three, she left school…
Born Leader (Casey Stoney interview)
Interview pp.25–27
At thirty-five, Casey Stoney thought Canada might be her last tournament and calls this squad place one of the biggest achievements of her career. She takes the team-mum role seriously and calls it a…
Scotland’s Braves: The Euro 2017 Squad
Run-of-page feature pp.28–32
Scotland reach a first major tournament after losing three successive play-offs, and Alan Campbell introduces the squad that got them there. Gemma Fay stands one cap short of becoming Britain's first two-hundred-cap footballer and…
Jo Love: The Skinny on the Squad (Q&A)
Interview p.30
Fifteen years after her senior debut and still only thirty-one, Jo Love gives the reader the domestic detail of a squad about to play its first major tournament. Her room-mate Lisa Evans is a…
Joelle Murray on Reaching the Euros (Q&A)
Interview p.31
Hibernian's captain, a one-club player with forty-three caps, describes reaching a first Euros as something she is so proud of after years of preparation, and kicking off against England as something you only dream…
Lisa Evans: One To Watch (Q&A)
Interview p.32
Freshly signed by Arsenal after five years in the German league with Turbine Potsdam and Bayern Munich, Lisa Evans is emphatic that Scotland are not travelling to make up numbers - they are going…
Signeul’s Scotland Swansong (Anna Signeul interview)
Interview p.33
In her final weeks after twelve years in charge, Anna Signeul reflects on taking Scotland to a first major championship. She refuses to look past individual games, feels for the injured Kim Little, Jennifer…
Vaila’s Late Arrival (Vaila Barsley interview)
Interview p.34
Vaila Barsley watched the Scotland squad announcement live on YouTube from her home in Sweden and cried, and so did her fiancee. At twenty-nine, three caps into an international career that began only in…
Spain: Surprise Package? (Jorge Vilda and Amanda Sampedro interviews)
Interview p.35
Spain arrive as many observers' dark horses, and their coach is entirely unromantic about how to justify it. Jorge Vilda names the opening game against Portugal as the pivotal one and refuses to look…
Portugal: Iberian Newbies (Francisco Neto and Claudia Neto interviews)
Interview p.36
Portugal reach a first senior Women's Euro and their coach asks only that they battle from first whistle to last and show pride in the shirt. Francisco Neto, in charge since February 2014, names…
Group A Preview and Shine On, Sherida (Sherida Spitse interview)
Interview p.37
She Kicks calls Group A anyone's guess: Norway have the pedigree, the hosts have the crowds, Denmark are perennial dark horses and Belgium are dangerous on their day. The Dutch voice is Sherida Spitse,…
Group B Preview and More German Joy for Josy? (Josephine Henning interview)
Interview pp.38–39
Group B opens with Germany against Sweden, opponents who have met in a European, a World Cup and an Olympic final, Germany always edging it. Josephine Henning, fresh from a fourth Champions League title…
Happy Belated Berglund (Emma Berglund interview)
Interview p.39
Emma Berglund lost a home European Championship to an ACL she felt and heard go while defending against Marta in the opening league game of 2013, and calls the chance to play in this…
UEFA Women’s Euro 2017: Match Schedule and Venues
Tournament feature pp.40–41
The centre of the Euros guide is given over to the practical business of following a tournament: the complete group-stage schedule with kick-off times at either five o'clock or a quarter to eight, and…
Group C Preview and Renard Ready for Success (Wendie Renard interview)
Interview p.42
She Kicks makes France comfortable favourites to clear a group containing Switzerland, Iceland and Austria, and then asks the question that has followed them for a decade: whether they can convert talent into a…
She Kicks a Eurobeat Special: The Ultimate Tournament Mixtape
Other pp.43–45
The magazine's regular music slot is expanded to take in all sixteen finalists, one player from each supplying a track. Norway's Nora Holstad Berge offers a Cyrus sibling to match the Hegerbergs, Shanice van…
Agree or Disagree? The Experts Predict Euro 2017
Other pp.46–47
Seven pundits and journalists give their Euro 2017 predictions and, read a decade later, the page is quietly remarkable for who nobody picks. Germany get the votes of Alan Campbell and Wayne Boyce, England…
Fans Forum: Who Will Win #WEURO2017?
Other p.48
She Kicks puts the same two questions to its readers and prints their tweets. Germany win the vote, often on grounds nobody bothers to dress up - they have won it since 1995, it…
Big Game Vox Pops: Fans on the Euros-Bound National Teams
Other pp.49–50
Catherine Etoe works the crowds at the FA Cup Final and at Scotland's friendly in Falkirk, and the answers are a portrait of who actually follows this game. Two Guiding leaders from Renfrewshire took…
Going Dutch! A Football Phrasebook for the Euros
Other p.51
The Euros guide closes with a phrasebook assembled by a Dutch supporter for travelling fans, and it is pitched exactly right. There are greetings and thanks, with a note that the southern informal 'Houdoe!'…
Cup Win Sends City Over the Blue Moon (2017 Women’s FA Cup Final report)
Match report pp.52–53
Manchester City finally took the Women's FA Cup at Wembley, beating Birmingham 4-1 with three goals in fourteen first-half minutes from Lucy Bronze, Izzy Christiansen and Carli Lloyd, Charlie Wellings pulling one back before…
View From The Field: Kerys Kicks (Kerys Harrop column)
Column / Opinion p.55
Writing after Wembley rather than before it, Birmingham's captain congratulates Manchester City and Chelsea on trophies she wanted and describes a final she will not forget regardless of the result. The details are what…
Gallery: Snaps and Action from the WSL Spring Series, 1 May – 2 June 2017
Other pp.56–57
Two pages of photographs from the last month of the 2017 Spring Series, running from 1 May to 2 June, captioned entirely in hashtags and credited to the FA via Getty Images. The mood…
Chelsea Spring Back (Emma Hayes interview)
Interview pp.58–59
Chelsea took the Spring Series on the last day with thirty-two goals scored and three conceded, and Emma Hayes credits a dressing room accepting enough to absorb signings from several countries while the existing…
Everton ‘Earn’ Return to WSL1 (Andy Spence interview)
Interview p.59
Everton won the WSL 2 Spring Series losing only one of nine games, and their manager is pointedly refusing to enjoy it, saying they have already forgotten the title and are focused on 2017-18.…
Spurs Set for Step Up (FAWPL Championship Play-Off match report)
Match report p.60
Tottenham Hotspur completed a season that also brought the League Cup and County Cup by beating Blackburn Rovers 3-0 at The Valley to take the FA Women's Premier League Championship play-off and a place…
Targeting the Next Level with Performance Analysis (Middlesbrough Women)
Other pp.62–63
Middlesbrough Women, runners-up in the FAWPL Northern Division, describe how they are trying to reach the next level with only four hours of contact time a week. First team manager Lindsey Stephenson explains that…
Born Kicking: Lucy Attwood
Other p.64
Lucy Attwood plays on the left wing for Abergavenny Ladies, the Gwent Performance Centre and Wales, and is Manchester United mad. She would meet Ryan Giggs because he played her position for Wales and…
We Kick with Plymouth Aspire Girls FC and Chesterfield High School Under-13s
Other p.65
Two junior sides take the same questionnaire and answer it entirely differently. Plymouth Aspire Girls, second in the Devon Junior Minor League but League Cup winners, insist there are no stars because every player…
Safe Hands: Carly Telford (Chelsea)
Interview p.66
Carly Telford picks a double save for Notts County against Birmingham on the last day of the 2014 season as her favourite, because the 2-2 draw cost Birmingham the title in a three-way race…
#SKThrowback: Jill Scott’s Extra-Time Semi-Final Winner v Netherlands, Euro 2009 (full-page photograph)
Poster p.67
A full-page throwback photograph of Jill Scott heading, or by the caption's account nosing, England's extra-time winner against the Netherlands in the Euro 2009 semi-final. The placement is deliberate rather than nostalgic: the same…
Amy Relishing Her New Career at Watford FC Thanks to UCFB (Amy O’Connor)
Other p.68
Amy O'Connor never wanted to play football but has made a career in it, moving from a UCFB degree to a business development role at Watford within months of graduating - a job the…
The She Kicks Locker Room: The Before & After with Siobhan Chamberlain
Interview pp.69–70
Liverpool and England's goalkeeper takes the reader through a match day in unusual detail: scrambled egg on a bagel three hours out, squash throughout, and Red Bull before the warm-up, again before kick-off and…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Car Quiz with Kirsty Hanson
Interview p.69
Doncaster Rovers Belles and Scotland Under-19 defender Kirsty Hanson answers She Kicks's car-themed questions after a tweet about her motoring caught the magazine's eye, and between the jokes gives a glimpse of the mileage…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Kit Check with Ciara Sherwood
Interview p.70
Crystal Palace and Northern Ireland's Ciara Sherwood submits to a kit interrogation prompted by a tweet about new boots. She carries about five pairs in her boot bag and has lost count of her…
Official Kicks: Isla Buchanan
Interview p.71
Isla Buchanan is sixteen, a Category 7 referee from Perth, and got into officiating through her grandfather, who refereed himself and now attends nine games in ten. She hung up her playing boots in…
Around the Counties: Cumberland’s Cork-Popping Success
News p.72
Cumberland FA sets out how it has grown the female game in a rural county that now has forty-three girls' teams and eleven women's teams, some eight hundred and fifty players in all. Its…
For Kicks & Giggles: Spot the Difference, All Mixed Up and a Celebration Snap
Other p.74
The issue signs off with its puzzle page. A Spot the Difference is built on a photograph marking the FA's deal with Disney, in which the Lionesses meet Mickey and Minnie Mouse, and the…