Issue
January 2020 36 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill opens 2020 by listing attendances rather than results: 77,768 at Wembley, 38,262 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, 23,500 at Anfield, and further down the pyramid 2,109 for Derby County against Nottingham Forest. Average…
News pp.4–6
The first news pages of 2020 are dominated by structural change. UEFA confirms a 16-team Champions League group stage from 2021/22, with three entries for the top six associations; FIFPRO appoints Amanda Vandervort as…
Other p.5
A short, cup-dominated diary for the opening weeks of 2020. It runs from the Women's FA Cup third round on 5 January through the fourth round on 26 January and the fifth on 16…
Run-of-page feature p.7
A report on the inaugural UCFB Women in Sport Conference, held at Wembley Stadium as a networking and support event for young women aiming to work in football and sport. Hosted by FATV presenter…
Run-of-page feature pp.8–11
The second MG ALBA Scottish Women's Football Awards drew 450 guests to Glasgow on St Andrew's Day to hand out nineteen categories. Glasgow City took three, Kirsty Howat as SWPL 1 top scorer, Scott…
Interview p.10
Collecting the first Kat Lindner Award for Outstanding Academic and Athletic Achievement, Scotland captain Rachel Corsie speaks about the late Glasgow City forward it commemorates. Lindner, she says, was without doubt one of the…
Other pp.12–13
Two pages of Barclays FA Women's Super League action spanning 20 October to 8 December 2019, the stretch that took in the record-breaking weekends at Anfield and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Thirteen images run…
Cover feature pp.14–19
Two interviews under one title, chosen to represent the two halves of a promoted squad. Ashleigh Neville came up through the Championship with Tottenham and gave up a teaching job in Birmingham over the…
Interview pp.20–21
Everton's Northern Ireland striker, about to start an eighth year at the club, takes the ten quick-fire questions on the back of a strong start to the season and two hard-earned draws with Wales.…
Column / Opinion p.22
Birmingham City's captain writes at the end of a rollercoaster year in which a top-four side has become one fighting relegation, made harder by her own injury. The bulk of the column is a…
Interview pp.23–24
Asmita Ale was 16 and a converted centre-back when she came on at right-wing-back for Aston Villa against Durham in March 2018, and had never played the position before. Two seasons on she is…
Other p.26
A single-page gallery saluting supporters rather than players, drawn from November and December 2019. The images run across the Barclays FA Women's Super League and take in the Scottish Women's Cup final at Tynecastle,…
Poster p.27
A full-page poster of Arsenal captain Kim Little celebrating her strike in the first Barclays FA Women's Super League north London derby, played at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in front of 38,262 - one…
Match report pp.28–29
Glasgow City took the Scottish Women's Cup back from three-time holders Hibernian in a final that produced seven goals at Tynecastle on 24 November 2019. Hibs led twice and City twice pegged them back:…
Column / Opinion p.30
Helen Ward closes the year with Watford unbeaten in twelve and winners of nine straight, including a 5-4 win at Plymouth in which her side trailed 2-0 and 3-2 and nicked the winner a…
Other p.31
The editor picks the photographs of the decade that stayed with her, and they are almost all about pain rather than triumph. The lead image catches Faye White in the instant after firing England's…
Column / Opinion p.32
She Kicks's long-time chief contributor is asked for her match of the decade and works through the contenders before choosing. Team GB's win over Brazil at Wembley at London 2012, Steph Houghton scoring in…
Other pp.33–41
A nine-question picture quiz, one image per year from 2011 to 2019, with the answers printed eight pages later. The questions range from Equatorial Guinea's Bruna catching the ball in the belief a free-kick…
Interview pp.34–40
England's longest-serving player takes the decade year by year. Karen Bardsley has been first-choice goalkeeper at all five major tournaments of the 2010s and has gone from crowds of 100 at Lincoln Ladies in…
Poster pp.36–37
A two-page poster of the moment women's football in England changed scale: 77,768 inside Wembley for England against Germany on 9 November 2019, a record attendance for an England women's match. The image is…
Interview pp.42–45
Morgan Brian was the youngest player in the United States squad that won the 2015 World Cup, and started throughout it in the defensive midfield role. Four years later she won it again, but…
Interview pp.46–50
Seven years into the job, Emma Hayes argues Chelsea are closer to Europe's summit than people think. She points out the club were not in the Champions League at all until four years ago,…
Run-of-page feature p.51
Surrey FA reports rapid growth in recreational women's football over three seasons, from a handful of sessions arranged around the school run to more than seventeen weekly sessions across the county. These range from…
Interview pp.52–53
Clare Shine headed Glasgow City's equaliser and then produced the mazy run and top-corner finish that took the Scottish Women's Cup back from Hibernian, capping a season in which City won a thirteenth league…
Interview pp.54–55
The goalkeepers' slot goes to Mary Earps in her first season at Manchester United. She narrows her favourite save to two: a double save against Arsenal on her home debut, and a long-range strike…
Interview pp.56–59
Denmark's captain talks music, and the music turns out to be a route through her career. Chuck Berry's You Never Can Tell was her calming pre-match record at Euro 2017, where Denmark reached the…
Interview pp.60–61
Liverpool's Wales defender describes a matchday built on superstition and admits as much halfway through. Three hours before kick-off it is Weetabix followed by a Pot Noodle - beef and tomato, having switched off…
Interview pp.61–62
England and Lyon's full-back takes the food questions and reports that she eats everything, all the time, and that her team-mates envy her for it on the grounds that she runs enough every game…
Interview pp.62–63
Brighton's Norwich-born defender takes the kit inventory while working her way back from injury, and is looking forward to getting back into her Mercurials in the new year - though she notes it may…
Interview p.63
The driving slot goes to Lois Roche, the former Reading and Republic of Ireland Under-19 midfielder now with the Italian Serie A side Florentia San Gimignano, where Emma Lipman and Stephanie Roche also play.…
Interview p.64
Sheffield United's captain, 29 on Christmas Day and a former Lincoln, Sheffield FC and Doncaster Rovers Belles defender, describes the job while her side push for promotion from the Championship. She casts herself as…
Other p.65
The readers' page collects three photographs and the stories behind them. Twelve-year-old Abby Kay met Megan Rapinoe in Seattle in the summer after the World Cup: Rapinoe was injured and did not play, but…
Other p.65
The second instalment of Saving Grace, the cartoon strip introduced in the previous issue and drawn by Steve English, the magazine's regular cartoonist. It follows a young, football-mad goalkeeper called Grace and runs across…
Interview pp.66–67
Manchester City's forward answers six questions set by eleven-year-old Imogen Groves, who picked her as a favourite for the way she sees a game, makes and reads runs, and never shirks a challenge. Stanway…
Other pp.68–69
Two ten-year-olds take the Born Kicking questionnaire. Zara Morley from Langdon Hills in Essex plays midfield for Billericay Town Ladies because that is where the ball comes most and the assists are, supports Arsenal…
Other p.70
The back-page puzzle spread runs two games. Spot the Difference uses Lynne Cameron's photograph of the England substitutes striking a pose at the 2019 World Cup, a matchday tradition of hers through the tournament,…
