Rain Or Shine… SK59! (Editor’s Letter)
Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill's letter is written in the aftermath of Storm Ciara, which blew the issue to the printers on a wave of floodwater and wiped out every fixture in the top four divisions in…
Issue
She Kicks issue 59
March 2020 35 articles indexed
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News
News pp.4–6
The March news pages are dominated by movement. Christine Sinclair passes Abby Wambach's 184 international goals to become the world's leading scorer, reaching 186 in 291 appearances at 36. Lyon buy the NWSL side…
Big Match/Dates Diary
Other p.5
A dense late-winter diary running from 9 February to 25 March 2020. Domestically it takes in the FA of Wales Cup quarter-finals, the fifth round and quarter-finals of the Women's FA Cup, the start…
What Can The Women’s Game Learn From VAR?
Column / Opinion p.7
A UCFB student argues that the women's game should keep the video assistant referee out. Having debated it with herself - if VAR is being written into the laws of the men's game, why…
A Decade Of Conti Cup Finals
Tournament feature pp.8–10
With Arsenal and Chelsea about to contest the 2020 final at Nottingham Forest, She Kicks runs back through eight editions of the Continental Cup, introduced in 2011 alongside the new FA WSL. Only Arsenal…
Blue Moon And Maple Spirit (Janine Beckie interview)
Interview pp.12–16
Janine Beckie is a forward who has spent the season at right-back, and she is disarming about it: defending is not the best part of her game, she had no expectations going in, and…
View From The Field: Kerys Kicks (Kerys Harrop column)
Column / Opinion p.17
Birmingham's captain returns from more than two months out with an MCL injury and uses the column to press a case about officiating. She is careful to say she is not calling every WSL…
Quick Kicks: Top Ten with Carla Humphrey (Bristol City)
Interview pp.18–19
Bristol City's Carla Humphrey, an Arsenal Centre of Excellence graduate who can play across the frontline or in midfield, takes the ten quick-fire Quick Kicks questions. She describes herself as a technical, creative attacker,…
Super Swiss Gooner (Lia Walti interview)
Cover feature pp.20–24
Arsenal's Switzerland midfielder is the issue's cover subject, and the interview works outward from small things. The squad number 13 has no grand story behind it: she was given 3 in her first season…
Erin Cuthbert, Chelsea and Scotland (poster)
Poster p.25
A full-page poster of Erin Cuthbert in the Chelsea home shirt, badged with the Chelsea and Scotland crests and her squad number 22. It runs in the issue that reports her Scottish double: she…
Barclays FAWSL Action Gallery, 20 October – 8 December 2019
Other pp.26–27
Two pages of Barclays FA Women's Super League action, running across the midwinter stretch of the first post-World Cup season. Twelve images fill the spread, shot by Lynne Cameron, Chloe Knott, Kunjan Malde and…
They Kick: Manchester City Women FC Official Supporters Club
Interview p.28
Manchester City's official supporters club describes what following a WSL club home and away actually involves. They have representation at every game, domestic and European, travelling by car share or on coaches they organise…
Fans Gallery, January/February 2020
Other p.29
A single-page gallery saluting supporters rather than players, drawn from January and February 2020 across the Barclays FA Women's Super League and the Championship. It is the last fans gallery She Kicks published before…
Young Fox In The Box (Annabel Blanchard, In Her Own Words)
Interview pp.30–31
Leicester City's teenage forward describes her move from Liverpool in her own words, and says it felt like a weight lifted off her shoulders. She sees herself as attack-minded, likes to play through the…
Saint Shannon (Shannon Sievwright interview)
Interview pp.32–34
Shannon Sievwright is Southampton's number 10, the Saints Foundation's female inclusion officer, head coach of the University of Portsmouth women's team, a UEFA B licence holder and a European Beach Soccer champion, all at…
Magic Max (Marieanne Spacey-Cale sidebar)
Other p.34
A panel on Marieanne Spacey-Cale MBE, Southampton's head of girls' and women's football technical department and manager of the first team, told through Shannon Sievwright's account of working under her. Known as Max to…
View From The Field: Ward’s Words (Helen Ward column)
Column / Opinion p.35
Helen Ward opens with the distance travelled: when she signed for Arsenal in January 2009 she was at the best club in the country and training twice a week, and she now trains three…
Jackie Groenen, Manchester United and Netherlands (poster)
Poster pp.36–37
A two-page poster of Jackie Groenen, caught mid-air in the Manchester United home shirt with the ball at her feet and both arms out for balance, in a PA Images photograph. The vertical caption…
Riding The Waves In Cornwall (Cornwall FA)
Run-of-page feature p.38
Cornwall FA reports growth on three fronts. Futsal is the largest: a Football Foundation grant has let the Cornwall Girls Football League expand its futsal offer for Under-10s and Under-12s while keeping it for…
A Champion’s Challenge (Scott Booth interview)
Interview pp.39–43
In 2015 Scott Booth watched Glasgow City's first Champions League quarter-final from a BBC commentary box. About to start a sixth season as their head coach, having delivered five league titles and two Scottish…
State Of Play: What’s Futsal About?
Run-of-page feature pp.44–47
A four-page primer arguing that futsal is both the best football development tool available and a thriving sport in its own right. It sets out the key differences from five-a-side, the case for playing…
Safe Hands: Hannah Hampton (Birmingham City)
Interview pp.48–49
The goalkeepers' slot goes to Birmingham City's teenage keeper, and her route into the position is unusually well dated. She was a striker until about 14, but at 12, playing for Stoke City's centre…
Coach Kicks: Heather Garriock (Canberra United)
Interview pp.50–53
Heather Garriock was on the pitch when Cheryl Salisbury's equaliser against Canada took Australia into the 2007 World Cup quarter-finals, and she scored a penalty when the Matildas won their first trophy, the 2010…
Goalgetter: Precious Is On Point (Precious Hamilton, Nottingham Forest)
Run-of-page feature pp.54–55
Precious Hamilton's breakout season as a striker arrives at 32, and she is the first to say it is not where she expected to find it. She has always seen herself as a number…
She Kicks a Beat: Sounds Of The Skill School (Gemma Davison)
Interview pp.56–59
Gemma Davison's music interview doubles as a tour of a long career. The Tottenham winger, whose skills have taken defenders off their feet as well as out of their stride, works through the soundtracks…
The She Kicks Locker Room: The Menu with Evie Clarke (London City Lionesses)
Interview pp.60–62
The Locker Room's food slot goes to London City Lionesses forward Evie Clarke, an Essex twin with a reputation as a dressing-room joker and, the standfirst reports, a firm dislike of the classic football…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Captain’s Chat with Tash Harding (Reading)
Interview p.61
Reading's captain describes a leadership style built almost entirely on not pretending. Appointed regular skipper of the Royals in the summer, Tash Harding says she has taken bits from captains she has worked under…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Kit Check with Alex Greenwood (Lyon)
Interview pp.62–63
England's left-back takes the kit inventory in her first season at Lyon, having left the north west of England and spells at Everton, Liverpool and Manchester United for the six-time European champions. She owns…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Car Quiz with Millie Turner (Manchester United)
Interview p.63
Manchester United's central defender Millie Turner, formerly of Everton and Bristol City and newly signed up as an adidas player, takes the Locker Room's driving questions. Her dad was the taxi driver who took…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Game Ready with Chloe Kelly (Everton)
Interview p.64
Everton's in-form forward describes a matchday that has become steadily more superstitious as the season has gone well. The night before is a chicken pasta dish and hydration; the morning of a game is…
Little Kicks: Readers’ Photos With Their Favourite Players
Other p.65
The readers' page collects two photographs and the stories behind them. Maya's favourite player is Hibernian's Joelle Murray, the first Scotland player she ever met and, her parent writes, her inspiration - and she…
Saving Grace (cartoon strip by Steve English)
Other p.65
The third instalment of Saving Grace, the cartoon strip introduced two issues earlier and drawn by Steve English, the magazine's regular cartoonist. It follows a young, football-mad goalkeeper called Grace and runs across the…
Little Kicks: Star Six with Sophie Ingle (Annie McAllister-Jones asks the Wales captain)
Interview pp.66–67
Wales's captain answers six questions set by Annie McAllister-Jones, six years old, a Cardiff City season ticket holder since the age of nine months and a mascot who led Wales out alongside Gareth Bale…
Born Kicking: Holly Grace Kirby
Other p.68
Eight-year-old Holly Grace Kirby from Broxbourne plays for the Broxbourne United Puffins Under-9s, supports Arsenal Women, and states plainly that she does not like boys' football. She has two favourite positions and a reason…
For Kicks & Giggles: Where’s Viv? and Where’s Your Head At?
Other p.69
The back-page puzzle spread runs two games. Where's Viv? uses Lynne Cameron's photograph of the Arsenal squad lining up for a team picture, with ten changes worked into the second image: an extra hand…