Issue
August 2019 40 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Editor Jen O'Neill opens the post-tournament issue trying to name what a World Cup leaves behind: elated, gutted, proud, empty, hyped and totally exhausted, all at once. Assembling the issue from images and post-match…
News pp.4–6
The first news pages after France 2019 are dominated by the tournament's aftershocks. The post-World Cup FIFA ranking takes in a record 158 nations, with the United States extending their lead over Germany to…
Other p.5
The standing diary marks the turn from a World Cup summer into a domestic season, and it is unusually crowded. It opens with the Under-19 European Championship in Scotland from 16-28 July and the…
Other pp.7–9
She Kicks opens its France 2019 review with a photographic look back over the four weeks of the tournament, running from the first match on 7 June to the final on 7 July. The…
Column / Opinion pp.10–13
She Kicks hands four pages to Heather Owens, who kept a Twitter thread running through the whole of France 2019 and reacted to every one of the 52 matches. The result is a complete,…
Match report pp.14–15
She Kicks marks the first World Cup meeting between England and Scotland with a quote-led spread from Nice on 9 June 2019. Shelley Kerr sets the scale of it beforehand by reaching back thirty…
Tournament feature pp.16–17
Scotland went home from their first Women's World Cup with nothing but a place in the record books, and She Kicks tells the story through the players' own words. They were the only debutants…
Match report p.18
England's second Group D match, against Argentina in Le Havre on 14 June 2019, was won by a single goal and might have been more comfortable. She Kicks records that the 35-year-old Argentina goalkeeper…
Match report p.19
England finished the group stage with a maximum nine points by beating Japan 2-0 in Nice on 19 June 2019. She Kicks credits the win squarely to Ellen White, whose clinical brace dismissed the…
Match report p.20
England reached the quarter-finals by beating Cameroon 3-0 in Valenciennes on 23 June 2019, in a match She Kicks describes as descending into almost farcical scenes. Captain Steph Houghton opened the scoring from an…
Match report p.21
England's best performance of France 2019 came in the quarter-final against Norway in Le Havre on 27 June, won 3-0. She Kicks notes that Jill Scott, England's most-capped player at a World Cup and…
Match report p.22
England's World Cup ended in the semi-final in Lyon on 2 July 2019, beaten 2-1 by the United States in what She Kicks calls a dramatic, breathless, bruising encounter between two heavyweights. Christen Press…
Match report p.23
Sweden took the bronze medal at France 2019 by beating England 2-0 in Nice on 6 July, and She Kicks is blunt about the manner of it. Kosovare Asllani and Sofia Jakobsson fired the…
Other p.24
A page of England reaction gathered after the semi-final and bronze medal defeats, in which disappointment keeps turning into intent. Phil Neville says his players delivered everything he had asked for over eighteen months…
Poster p.25
A full-page poster marking Lucy Bronze's adidas Silver Ball, awarded to the second-best player of the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. She is photographed in England's white home shirt, moving onto the ball with…
Match report pp.26–29
The United States won a fourth World Cup and a first back-to-back title by beating the Netherlands 2-0 in Lyon on 7 July 2019, Megan Rapinoe converting a penalty on 61 minutes and Rose…
Other p.30
A single-page record of the individual honours at the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Megan Rapinoe took both the adidas Golden Ball as the tournament's best player and the adidas Golden Boot as its…
Other pp.32–34
Three pages given over to the travelling support at France 2019, which She Kicks rates as one of the best things about the tournament, telling its readers they were 'fan'tastic. The gallery is arranged…
Run-of-page feature p.35
Nottinghamshire FA used the momentum of England's World Cup run to launch a women's-only walking football programme, and She Kicks gives it a page. Walk This Way was piloted with five groups across Nottingham,…
Poster pp.36–37
A two-page poster marking Ellen White's adidas Bronze Boot, awarded for the six goals that made her the joint-highest scorer at the 2019 World Cup. The left-hand page is a tight crop of a…
Run-of-page feature pp.38–41
Karen Carney retired after England's bronze-medal match against Sweden on 6 July 2019, fourteen years and 144 caps after her debut, and She Kicks marks it by asking the people who watched her closest…
Other pp.43–49
She Kicks records one of the busiest transfer windows the English women's game had seen, listing more than ninety moves made in June and July 2019 up to the 17th. The headline departures run…
Interview p.44
Aoife Mannion talks to She Kicks after leaving Birmingham City for Manchester City, the same move Ellen White made in the same window. One of the WSL's most highly regarded defenders and a PFA…
Interview p.46
Becky Jane leaves Reading after eight years for Liverpool, and tells She Kicks she needed a fresh start. The 27-year-old full-back, capped at every England youth level and a scorer in an Under-17 World…
Interview p.47
Marisa Ewers moves from WSL Birmingham City to Championship Aston Villa in her fourth year in England, and takes on a backroom job at the same time as Villa's Team Analysis and Operations Officer.…
Interview p.48
Arsenal's summer goalkeeping signing Manuela Zinsberger introduces herself to She Kicks readers after five years at Bayern Munich. The 23-year-old Austria international says Arsenal is a big, traditional club with a quality team where…
Interview p.49
Durham's summer signing Iris Achterhof arrives in the FA Women's Championship by an unusual route. The 22-year-old Dutch striker, a former team-mate of Vivianne Miedema at Heerenveen, spent four years on scholarship at Old…
Interview p.50
Leandra Little joins Sheffield United after a season at Liverpool, and tells She Kicks that a conversation with manager Carla Ward about the club's vision and a push for promotion was what persuaded her.…
Column / Opinion p.51
Birmingham City captain Kerys Harrop returns to her column after a break, with the World Cup the obvious subject. She was gutted for the Lionesses, having thought this was their year, and looks instead…
Interview pp.52–53
Lucy Graham's move from Bristol City to Everton reunites her with Willie Kirk, her former Hibernian manager, who called the 22-year-old Scotland midfielder one of the club's main targets. She tells She Kicks she…
Interview pp.54–55
Manchester United's number ten takes on She Kicks' ten-question slot ahead of her first WSL season with the club she came through as a girl. Katie Zelem, 23 and United's 2018-19 Player of the…
Column / Opinion p.56
Wales' record goalscorer begins her column by admitting the World Cup was a difficult watch at first, because Wales had pushed England so close in qualifying and then had to watch everyone else take…
Interview pp.57–59
Wales head coach Jayne Ludlow talks to She Kicks about running a team on emotion without being run by it. Her side missed the World Cup on a mentally draining night against England the…
Interview p.60
She Kicks' standing questionnaire for coaches goes to Jayne Ludlow, and gets some unusually specific answers. Her favourite session is a receiving-skills drill that grows into a small-sided game, though she says what really…
Interview pp.61–63
Emma Hunter co-manages Aberdeen's first ever senior women's team, a job she describes as a dream come true and reached by a route almost nobody would choose. She was about to take up a…
Interview pp.64–65
Carly Girasoli was fifteen when Glasgow City moved her up from the academy to train with a first team she had watched from the stands, and seventeen when She Kicks caught up with her.…
Other pp.66–67
The reader questionnaire goes to two of the youngest players it has featured, both of whom say the Lionesses inspired them. Eleni Kyriakou, six, from Shrewsbury plays for Bayston Hill Juniors and Shrewsbury Town's…
Other p.68
Ten-year-old Zoe Nicholls travelled to Lyon with her mother to watch England lose the semi-final to the United States, and was especially sad for her favourite player. She bounced back to win a tournament…
Poster p.69
A full-page poster of Rose Lavelle in the United States shirt, printed after a World Cup in which the 24-year-old midfielder took the Bronze Ball and scored the second goal in the final against…
Other p.70
The puzzle page celebrates the United States' fourth World Cup with three games built from tournament photographs. Spot the Difference sets two versions of the champions' trophy celebration against each other and asks readers…
