Issue
November 2019 35 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Editor Jen O'Neill looks ahead to a November stacked with occasions - a sold-out Wembley, the first Women's Football Weekend, the Scottish Women's Cup final - and calls this an unprecedented phase of rising…
News pp.4–6
The November news pages open on the scale of the summer just gone: FIFA reports the 2019 Women's World Cup was watched by more than 1.12 billion viewers, a 30 per cent rise on…
Other p.5
The issue's fixtures and dates diary sets out a dense November for the women's game across Britain and Ireland. It opens with the UEFA Women's Champions League quarter-final and semi-final draws on 8 November,…
Run-of-page feature p.7
The winner of the UCFB Journalism Competition argues that women's football is steadily dismantling the stigma attached to gay women in sport. Alicia Pryzsieniak notes that she grew up without knowing of a single…
Other pp.8–9
A two-page paparazzi gallery from the Best FIFA Football Awards, held at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 23 September 2019. Megan Rapinoe took The Best FIFA Women's Player and Jill Ellis The…
Cover feature pp.10–16
Keira Walsh is not the tough-tackling English holding midfielder of type, and she knows it. In a candid interview at the Manchester City academy she traces a rise from not making the England Under-19s…
Column / Opinion p.19
Birmingham City's captain writes from an odd position: top of one competition and bottom of the other. Two wins have put the Blues top of their Continental Cup group while two league defeats, to…
Interview pp.20–21
Arsenal's Scotland winger takes the ten quick-fire questions and answers most of them at speed. She describes herself as fast, versatile and unselfish, hands full credit for the matchday playlist to Leah Williamson, and…
Other pp.22–23
Two pages of Barclays FA Women's Super League action from 15 September to 13 October 2019, covering the opening month of the first post-World Cup season. Twelve images run across the spread, taken by…
Interview pp.24–25
The Chelsea Women Supporters Group explains how it grew from a handful of people looking for anyone else following the team online into a community with a party bus, banners, songbooks and a youth…
Interview pp.26–29
Just turned 27 and back at West Ham after a second World Cup, Adriana Leon is emphatic that the best is still to come. The Canadian forward talks through a well-travelled career - Toronto,…
Other pp.30–31
A two-page gallery saluting the supporters rather than the players, drawn from September and October 2019. The pictures run from a record crowd for the Lionesses outside London - 29,238 at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium,…
Poster p.32
A full-page poster of Beth England, captured scoring her first international goal for England in a 2-1 defeat by Brazil at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium on 5 October 2019, in front of 29,238 supporters -…
Poster p.34
A full-page poster of Rachel Rowe wheeling away after scoring a late winner for Wales in Belarus on 8 October 2019, in Euro 2021 qualifying. The caption reads the celebration as double-edged: relief and…
Column / Opinion p.35
Wales's record goalscorer weighs what social media has given the women's game against what it is starting to cost. Helen Ward's case for the platforms is the access and engagement they create, and the…
Poster pp.36–37
The Liverpool FC Women squad photograph for 2019/20, run across two pages with a full naming caption and credited to John Powell for LFC via Getty Images. Vicky Jepson's group is captured in the…
Poster p.38
A full-page celebration poster of Glasgow City as Scottish Women's Premier League champions, printed sideways across the page under the hashtag #13inarow. The squad and staff are photographed together on the pitch in the…
Interview pp.39–42
Joelle Murray says she feels like a fraud when she talks about going to work, because her office at Easter Road overlooks the pitch and her job is running the Hibs girls' academy. She…
Run-of-page feature pp.43–47
A five-page primer on what mindset actually means in football, built around Dr Matt Pain, sports psychologist to elite players and formerly the FA's psychology manager. He strips the jargon back to a common…
Interview pp.48–49
The magazine's regular slot for goalkeepers turns to Marie Hourihan, then at SC Braga and first choice for the Republic of Ireland. Her favourite save is not the hardest she has made but the…
Interview pp.50–52
Reading have finished fourth and fifth in the last two WSL seasons and reached an FA Cup semi-final, and Kelly Chambers is adamant the Arsenal-Chelsea-Manchester City stronghold can be broken. She is candid that…
Interview p.53
The coaching questionnaire that runs alongside the main Reading interview. Kelly Chambers favours transitions and pressing work, and names Fara Williams as the player who has made the biggest impression on her - a…
Run-of-page feature p.54
London FA's page sets out four initiatives aimed at getting more women and girls playing in the capital. Four youth leagues - Tandridge, Camden & Islington, London County Saturday and the nine-year-old Capital Girls…
Interview p.56
The Locker Room's matchday-routine slot catches Demi Vance after a season that brought Glentoran three trophies and Northern Ireland a creditable point against Wales in Euro 2021 qualifying. The left-sided midfielder's preparation runs on…
Interview pp.57–58
The Locker Room's food slot goes to Liverpool and England forward Melissa Lawley, who opens by disqualifying fish entirely - the smell of salmon or tuna, on her plate or anyone else's - while…
Interview pp.58–59
Aston Villa's Elisha N'Dow, one of the few constants through years of squad turnover at a club then storming the Championship, submits to the kit inventory. Her first boots were a horrible pair of…
Interview p.59
The Locker Room's driving slot goes to Flo Fyfe, who moved in the summer from Oxford United - commuted to from the University of Bath, two hours each way - to the newly full-time…
Interview pp.60–62
Finland's captain and record-holding goalkeeper joined Everton from Valerenga this summer, after more than a decade away from Oulu - the home, she points out, of the Air Guitar World Championships, though she has…
Other p.63
The readers' page collects photographs sent in by parents of children meeting their favourite players. Bill thanks West Ham's Kate Longhurst for a picture with his daughter Tallulah Tillett, who is recovering from a…
Other p.63
The launch instalment of Saving Grace, a cartoon strip drawn by Steve English, the magazine's regular cartoonist, and introduced on the Little Kicks page as 'our brand-new cartoon strip featuring a young, footie-mad goalkeeping…
Poster p.64
A full-page poster of Danielle van de Donk in the Netherlands orange, marking her hundredth cap, which she celebrated by scoring against Russia on 18 October 2019 as the Dutch continued a perfect start…
Interview pp.65–67
Manchester United's manager answers six questions set by Olivia, a nine-year-old Celtic Women and United supporter who once served as a mascot at Old Trafford. Casey Stoney says nobody inspired her to play because…
Other p.67
A panel introducing Changing the Game: Fantastic Female Footballers, co-written by Casey Stoney and Emily Stead, which surveys the history of the women's game through the individuals who overcame the odds to play it.…
Other pp.68–69
The magazine's slot for its youngest readers hears from three of them. Katie Dunlop, ten and from Kilmarnock, plays on the wing for Dean Thistle Girls Under-11s, is moving to the boys' side next…
Other p.70
The back-page puzzle spread runs two games. Spot the Difference uses a photograph of West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur walking out through the bubbles at the London Stadium on 29 October 2019, with…
