Keep Kicking (Editor’s Letter)
Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill opens on a month of football that was actually watchable - on television, radio and online - and makes the case that visibility is not only about building a fanbase but about…
Issue
She Kicks issue 47
May 2018 29 articles indexed
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News
News pp.4–6
Germany turn to Martina Voss-Tecklenburg after sacking Steffi Jones, and Fran Kirby becomes the first winner of the Football Writers' Association's Women's Footballer of the Year, taking more than half a panel vote and…
2018 FA Girls’ Youth Cup Final and FA WSL Development Cup Final
News p.7
Manchester City took both of the day's finals at St George's Park on 14 April, and the first was a first: the FA Girls' Youth Cup, won 3-1 against Reading after Olivia Gaffney had…
Meet the Gunners: Beth Mead and Lisa Evans on the Arsenal Squad
Run-of-page feature pp.8–11
Arsenal's two cup final debutants take the reader through the squad they are about to walk out with, and gleefully profile each other while they are at it. Alex Scott is Captain Fantastic, the…
Women’s FA Cup Semi-Final: Everton 1-2 Arsenal
Match report p.9
Louise Quinn's thumping stoppage-time header took Arsenal past Everton on Merseyside and into a sixteenth FA Cup final. Danielle Carter had put the Gunners ahead on twenty-six minutes, finishing a neat right-sided move involving…
Meet the Blues: Hannah Blundell and Drew Spence on the Chelsea Squad
Run-of-page feature pp.12–14
Chelsea's answer to the Arsenal guide is written by two of the squad's younger and, by their own account, peskier members, and the tone is sharper. Gilly Flaherty is their very own Del Boy,…
Women’s FA Cup Semi-Final: Chelsea 2-0 Manchester City
Match report p.13
Two individual finishes by Fran Kirby were the difference at a drizzly Kingsmeadow, sending Chelsea past their league title rivals Manchester City and into an all-London final. On five minutes and again on seventy-four…
Head to Head: Kirby v Miedema (Opta comparison)
Other p.15
She Kicks asks Opta to set the two finalists' leading forwards side by side, and the numbers do more than settle a pub argument - they describe two different footballers. Vivianne Miedema, at twenty-one…
Ready, Steady, Roebuck (Ellie Roebuck interview)
Interview pp.16–18
At eighteen Ellie Roebuck has a World Cup, a professional contract, Champions League starts and a PFA Young Player shortlisting behind her, and is displacing England's number one at Manchester City. The problem she…
View From The Field: Kerys Kicks (Kerys Harrop column)
Column / Opinion p.19
Birmingham's captain writes in the week Girls' Football Week begins and two English clubs contest Champions League semi-finals for the first time, and her theme throughout is who gets to watch. Both those semi-finals…
Gallery: WSL Action, 1-24 April 2018
Other p.20
A single page of photographs from three weeks of WSL action in April 2018, captioned entirely in hashtags that run from an appreciative ooh to a fiftieth of something, another tap-in, a Bristol fashion,…
View From The Field: Ward’s Words (Helen Ward column)
Column / Opinion p.21
Helen Ward has no difficulty finding an opening this month. Wales went to St Mary's and held the world's second-ranked side, and she takes on the critics who called it anti-football directly: why should…
International Action: 2019 World Cup Qualifying, April 2018
Tournament feature p.22
Wales met England at St Mary's in Phil Neville's first competitive game and held them scoreless, in what Jayne Ludlow called Wales women's biggest ever result - a red wall of defensive discipline, grit…
England Starting Eleven v Wales (full-page photograph)
Poster p.23
A full-page photograph of the England eleven lined up arm in arm before kick-off against Wales, in white shirts numbered two to eleven with a goalkeeper in yellow, a packed stand behind them and…
Scotland Starting Eleven (full-page photograph)
Poster p.24
The companion page to the England line-up opposite: the Scotland eleven arm in arm before kick-off in navy, white and red, their goalkeeper in orange, shirt numbers running from one to twenty. Like its…
UCFB Student Sarah Helping to Inspire the Next Generation of Females Working in Sport (Sarah Makki)
Other p.25
Sarah Makki works at BBC Sport alongside a multimedia sports journalism degree, and found herself on a panel at Kick It Out's Women's Raise Your Game conference at Wembley - a room of agents,…
Fran Kirby, 2018 PFA Players’ Player of the Year and FWA Player of the Year (double-page photograph)
Poster pp.26–27
A double-page photograph of Fran Kirby, captioned only with the two awards that made her season: the PFA Players' Player of the Year, voted by the professionals she plays against, and the inaugural Football…
Welsh Wonder Wall (Laura O’Sullivan interview)
Interview pp.28–31
Before 6 April, England supporters had not heard of Laura O'Sullivan. By the final whistle at St Mary's she had kept out the world's second-ranked side in front of more than twenty-five thousand people,…
She Kicks Goal Getter: Size the Moment (Amelia Size)
Interview p.33
The Goal Getter slot goes this month to a goalkeeper. Amelia Size saved the first penalty of a shoot-out at the Dallas International Girls Cup and was then told by her manager that she…
View From The Field: Murray’s Matters (Joelle Murray column)
Column / Opinion p.35
Joelle Murray's column is a comeback story that turns over in its final paragraph. She describes rehabilitation from a stress response caused by repetitive load through the tibia, managed by wearing a GPS vest…
NIFL Women’s Premiership in Focus: Nelson Nears 100 (Julie Nelson interview)
Interview pp.36–37
Two caps short of a century, and already the fourth most-capped player Northern Ireland has produced, Julie Nelson says she would never have dreamt of ninety when she debuted at the 2004 Algarve Cup.…
She Kicks a Beat: The Funk Soul Smithster (Kelly Smith interview)
Interview pp.38–40
Everything about Kelly Smith has been said, so She Kicks asks about the records instead. She is not, she says, a standard dance-music person: it is disco, seventies and eighties, Womack & Womack, Chic,…
Born Kicking: Kloe Green and Issy Bullock
Other p.41
Two young players share the Born Kicking slot and could hardly be more different. Nine-year-old Kloe Green turns out for both the girls' and the boys' teams at Clee Town, supports Grimsby, would play…
The She Kicks Locker Room: The Before & After with Charlotte Devlin
Interview p.42
Millwall's twenty-year-old top scorer describes a match day of small fixed rituals. Scrambled eggs on toast, fruit and orange juice with bits in, and a cup of tea if she is feeling cheeky. She…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Car Quiz with Fern Whelan
Interview p.43
Brighton's defender - who is also a physiotherapist, an England international and a Champions League veteran - submits to the car questions and answers them with more enthusiasm than the format usually earns. Her…
The Reborn Identity (Amy McDonald interview)
Interview p.44
Amy McDonald retired at twenty-six when an ankle injury ended her 2012 season, and she is unusually direct about what that cost. She had always been Amy who played for Glasgow City, Amy who…
Coach Kicks: Amy McDonald (Rangers Women)
Interview pp.45–46
Rangers' head coach answers the Coach Kicks questions and gives away a coaching philosophy assembled from well outside football. She reads Ray Dalio on leadership, admires Eddie Howe's characteristics, and deliberately studies netball and…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Captain’s Chat with Lucy Staniforth
Interview p.47
Sunderland's captain returned to the club where her career began at sixteen and took the armband when a long-serving predecessor retired. She resists being typed: high standards, leading by example away from football as…
For Kicks & Giggles: Cups & Mugs and Spot the Difference
Other pp.48–49
The puzzle page doubles as a small piece of Women's FA Cup history, dug out because the issue is the magazine's cup final edition. Cups & Mugs shows twelve trophy photographs and asks readers…