Issue
September 2018 32 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill opens on a dizzying summer of players, managers and clubs all changing leagues, with the new-look WSL and Championship about to begin. Her tone has shifted from the previous issue's criticism: she…
News pp.4–6
New Zealand's head coach resigns after an independent review into the team's culture and after thirteen players refused to play for him, alleging bullying, intimidation and a culture of fear. Cheryl Foster becomes the…
Match report pp.8–9
Tottenham's Ronnell Humes scored twice, the second in stoppage time, as an FA Women's National League Select XI beat an Ex-England All-Stars side 2-1 at Boreham Wood in the fourth annual Charity Trophy, with…
Run-of-page feature pp.10–33
She Kicks previews the first fully professional Women's Super League club by club, and the answers say as much about the change as any table would. Hope Powell describes Brighton going full-time and the…
Interview pp.12–14
Hannah Blundell is not, she cheerfully admits, a headline signing - she is one of the players who simply gets the job done, and last season she got an England debut, a new contract…
Column / Opinion p.19
Birmingham's captain returns from a break spent largely watching the men's World Cup - at least one game a day, even on holiday - and is candid about what her own season needs to…
Interview pp.20–22
Gilly Flaherty left Chelsea after four and a half years and seven major trophies because, as she puts it, she had faded into the background among so many senior internationals and just wanted to…
Interview pp.24–27
Five years into life at Arsenal, Emma Mitchell has watched the club cycle through squads without ever quite finding consistency, and thinks Joe Montemurro has changed that by keeping the core together. The three…
Interview pp.28–31
The image everyone remembers is Phil Neville clutching Kayleigh Green's leg as cramp took her down against England, and she is happy enough with the jokes because she had run and run and so…
Run-of-page feature pp.32–33
Manchester United fielded a women's team long before Casey Stoney's twenty-one strangers, and She Kicks tells that story because almost nobody else has. Manchester United Ladies FC began in 1977 as a supporters' club…
Interview p.34
She Kicks catches Sam Tierney on a team bus on the way to Aston Villa and puts ten questions to her over Twitter. She has moved from Doncaster Belles, where she won WSL 2,…
Column / Opinion p.35
Seventeen weeks after breaking an ankle, Joelle Murray is back in training with her team mates rather than beside them, though under a non-contact restriction she accepts cannot be rushed. She is squatting again…
Poster pp.36–37
A double-page photograph of England's Under-20 side celebrating a goal in France, captioned with nothing but a hashtag and the tournament and credited to PA Images. The magazine had previewed the competition across seven…
Column / Opinion p.38
Helen Ward played in the Grenfell charity match and credits the councillor who drove it, then turns to a pre-season that looks different now Watford are in the third tier: fewer team sessions, more…
Other p.39
For nine months a year an elite pitch is tended daily and then in May it is ripped up and relaid - and in the weeks between, clubs hire the turf out for fan…
News pp.40–41
With one round of fixtures left, She Kicks reviews all seven Danske Bank Women's Premiership sides. Linfield are chasing a third straight title, already hold the League Cup and have played Ajax in Europe,…
Interview pp.42–45
Lianne Sanderson saw a video on Twitter while coming round from a second knee operation and told her partner she wanted to play for that team; months later her agent rang to say Juventus…
Run-of-page feature pp.46–49
Behind a fully professional league are the women who kept the game going before it and cannot meet the hours it now demands. Carrie Dunn sets out the criteria - sixteen hours of daytime…
Interview pp.50–51
France host a World Cup in less than a year and their number nine is clear-eyed about what it could do and what it demands. It is a huge opportunity for the French game,…
Interview pp.52–54
Neil Redfearn made over a thousand appearances as a player and managed Leeds United and Rotherham before winning WSL 2 with Doncaster Rovers Belles by ten points, and he is candid about the moment…
Interview p.54
Liverpool's manager answers the Coach Kicks questions in the register of someone who has done a thousand games. His favourite session is possession-based and encourages freedom of expression and timing of movement. Asked whether…
Interview p.55
Sandy MacIver was a striker until thirteen or fourteen and only went in goal at Crewe because the keeper kept getting injured; Everton and Liverpool both then offered her places as a goalkeeper and…
Interview pp.56–57
Belgium's all-time leading scorer arrived at Manchester City in June and made her first real impression at an initiation, turning the lights down to perform Adele's Hello after a match when everyone was tired…
Interview pp.58–59
Interviewed between England's group games at an Under-20 World Cup, Birmingham's forward describes a match day built on music and analysis. There is a drive to Birmingham with hype-up music on - no sad…
Interview p.59
Lewes's midfielder answers the kit questions and gives away a secret in the process, which the magazine cheerfully points out. For three seasons she has been quietly collecting her brother's shirts at the end…
Interview pp.60–61
Jenna Schillaci first played for Tottenham at sixteen, when the kit was oversized hand-me-downs and training was once a week on worn AstroTurf, and she has captained them from the FA Women's Premier League…
Interview p.62
Chloe Matthews took a refereeing course at fourteen with a group from her grassroots team and started the following season in a boys' youth league on Sundays while still playing on Saturdays. She is…
Other p.63
She Kicks launches a section for its youngest readers by asking them to draw their favourite players, and prints the results. Hallie Dawson, who is eight, has drawn Jordan Nobbs; Zara Copper, also eight,…
Poster pp.64–65
The centre of the new Little Kicks section is a double-page poster of Alex Morgan in Orlando Pride colours, her shirt number 13 in display type, with a fact file pitched at the readers…
Interview pp.66–67
The Little Kicks section hands the interview over entirely: fourteen-year-old Drew Turner picked the player and wrote all six questions, and Beth Mead - who had presented her with a goalscoring award three years…
Other pp.68–69
Two young players share the Born Kicking slot. Ten-year-old Amelie Birchley of Gloucester City plays right wing, supports nobody in particular, would meet Messi and would play alongside Fran Kirby on the grounds that…
Other p.70
The issue signs off by paying tribute to the Young Lionesses in the only way the magazine knows: taking a photograph of them in action at the Under-20 World Cup and planting nine changes…
