Issue
April 2021 37 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill opens on the multi-million-pound Sky Sports and BBC deal for the Barclays FA WSL, calling it a watershed and the moment the women's game in England goes mainstream, while noting that kick-off…
News pp.4–6
The Barclays FA WSL sells its rights separately from the men's game for the first time, in a three-year, multi-million-pound deal with Sky Sports and the BBC from 2021-22, with a quarter of the…
Other p.6
The magazine's fixture diary for April and May 2021, printed with the standing qualifier that everything listed is only as currently scheduled. It runs from the Vitality Women's FA Cup second round and the…
News p.7
Hege Riise, the former Norway midfielder who was already interim England manager, is confirmed to lead Team GB in Tokyo. The magazine sets out why the appointment fits: she won Olympic gold as a…
News p.7
To mark 500 days until kick-off, UEFA unveils a new look for Women's Euro 2022 and She Kicks prints the state of qualification. The tournament in England will run from 6 to 31 July…
Poster p.8
A full-page pull-out poster of Chelsea's Australian striker, captured mid-cartwheel in the act of celebrating a goal, upside down with her studs to the camera and the empty Vicarage Road stands behind her. The…
Interview p.9
Approaching the end of her degree, Grace Scott talks about two years as media officer at Maidenhead United, a role she secured before moving to London to study. She describes creating graphics and digital…
Cover feature pp.10–14
Angharad James is packing up a flat, planning a wedding and finishing a WSL season all at once, with a move to North Carolina Courage waiting on the other side. She insisted on seeing…
Column / Opinion p.15
Kerys Harrop marks ten years of the WSL by pointing out that she has played in every one of them, and reckons only Jill Scott and Steph Houghton can say the same. She remembers…
Cover feature pp.16–20
Denmark's Elitedivisionen top scorer of 2020 signed for Everton without ever having visited, and eight months on says the club feels like a second family. The heart of the interview is the year before…
Other p.21
Seven photographs from seven weeks of a Barclays FA WSL season played in empty grounds, each captioned with a hashtag pun. Gemma Evans heads a late point for Bristol City at Spurs; Megan Connolly…
Interview pp.22–23
The World Cup winner who joined Manchester City on a two-and-a-half-year deal in January takes the magazine's ten-question slot, and slots into it as smoothly as she did into City's defence. She describes herself…
Interview pp.24–27
Angela Addison is 21, has scored her first top-flight goal, signed a new contract and been nominated for Young Player of the Season at the London Football Awards. She is happy with her progress…
Cover feature pp.29–33
Had the Brexit withdrawal agreement come a year earlier, Manchester United would not have Ivana Fuso, Arsenal would not have Malin Gut and West Ham would not have Olli Harder. Glenn Moore works through…
Other p.33
A worked example sitting inside the Brexit investigation, running two real Brighton signings of summer 2020 through the points system that did not yet apply to them. Cecilie Fiskerstrand, a Norwegian goalkeeper signed from…
Interview pp.34–35
Gail Newsham, the historian who has spent decades on the Dick, Kerr Ladies, talks about a new non-fiction book bringing their story to younger readers. For decades, she says, their success was football's best-kept…
Poster pp.36–37
A full-bleed double-page poster of Chelsea celebrating the FA Women's Continental Tyres League Cup, players and staff massed under falling gold tinsel with the trophy held up in the middle and WINNERS set across…
Interview pp.38–39
Durham's centre-back takes the magazine's two-part questionnaire, rating her own season as alright despite a broken foot and only one goal. She wears 14 everywhere she goes because of Thierry Henry, her idol, and…
Interview pp.40–43
Sophie Walton was in the WSL from its first season and played a whole Wembley FA Cup final for Notts County in 2015. This year she is back up in the Championship with Sheffield…
Column / Opinion p.44
Wales's record goalscorer writes from a strange spring. There was an international camp in February with no game to prepare for and no head coach, which she still found worthwhile, and she is warm…
Other p.45
A page of photographs marking ten years since the first Women's Super League match, and, more usefully, a complete printed record of it. Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 at Imperial Fields, the home of Tooting…
Interview pp.46–50
Liverpool finished bottom in 2012 and then won the league twice. Matt Beard, their manager, explains how: Birmingham had come close with a core of British players, so Liverpool became the first side to…
Other p.51
Scottish Women's Football confirmed that SWPL 1 clubs could return to training from 8 March with fixtures resuming on 4 April, all parties committed to completing a full 21-match season with a final day…
Interview pp.52–53
The Oldham-born goalkeeper now at Bordeaux takes the magazine's regular goalkeeping slot. Her favourite save so far is a penalty against Paris Saint-Germain in her first game for the club, though she argues a…
Interview pp.54–57
Carla Ward took the Birmingham City job two weeks before the season started, with no money and a squad that had to be assembled by ringing round other managers for loans. What she built…
Interview pp.54–57
The magazine's regular coaches' questionnaire, taken by Birmingham City's head coach. Attacking patterns are her favourite session to deliver, which she finds funny given how much her side defend. The player who made the…
Interview pp.58–59
Leicester City's captain has been a Fox since she was eleven, is the club's longest-serving player, and signed professional terms at the start of a season in which they turned full-time and pushed for…
Interview pp.60–61
The Rangers midfielder from Loanhead, who came through at Hibernian before moving across to Glasgow in January 2020, walks through a matchday. Food preparation starts the night before with a higher-carbohydrate meal; the morning…
Interview pp.61–63
Liverpool's flying full-back takes the magazine's food questionnaire and answers it with the directness of someone who has thought about it. She is severely allergic to peanuts, so those are the food she cannot…
Interview p.62
Aston Villa's veteran defender, 71 England caps and a season of punditry behind her, answers the magazine's motoring questionnaire. Her father was the taxi driver of her childhood, her mother refusing to drive beyond…
Interview p.63
Brighton's defender lets the magazine go through her phone. The last person she called was her mother, because she needed something and her mother is always helpful; the most important people in it are…
Interview p.64
The Manchester United and England goalkeeper opens her kit bag. Her first proper gloves were red and white Uhlsports with fingersaves, worn when she was at the Notts County Centre of Excellence and starting…
Interview p.65
Carlota Planas played futsal at a high level before co-founding UNIK Sports Management with Arkaitz Coca, and says the playing years let her anticipate what her clients need rather than merely react. The agency…
Interview pp.66–68
Three girls from Baglan Girls in South Wales put six questions to the Crystal Palace and Wales defender their team-mate nominated. Ffion Morgan describes being pulled aside by Jayne Ludlow at an Under-19s camp…
Other p.67
The magazine's recurring cartoon strip for younger readers, drawn by Steve English, runs across the foot of the Star Six spread. In four panels of dialogue it plays out a small scene about kit…
Other pp.68–69
The magazine's grassroots slot hands two pages to the Wormley Robins Under-10s, with each girl answering one question. Calleigh found the team because she liked playing football with her dad in the garden and…
Other p.70
The magazine's puzzle page runs two games. The first is a spot-the-difference built from a trophy celebration: Chelsea had dismissed Bristol City with what She Kicks calls startling efficiency in the tenth Continental Cup…
