#SK73, Has To Wait & See… (Editor’s Letter)
Column / Opinion p.3
Editor Jen O'Neill writes an issue that has to go to press before anything is settled - the WSL, the SWPL and the cups all undecided, and news of Portugal replacing Russia at EURO…
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She Kicks issue 73
May 2022 33 articles indexed
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News
News pp.4–6
Three pages of news from the closing weeks of the 2021-22 season. Barcelona break their own world record for a professional women's match twice over, 91,553 against Real Madrid and then 91,648 against Wolfsburg;…
Roll of Honour: 2022 Divisional Champions, Tier 3 and Below
Other p.6
A twenty-eight-line honours board of England's 2021-22 divisional champions in Tier 3 and below, printed as an explicit continuation of the list begun in the previous issue. Wolverhampton Wanderers head it as FA Women's…
Big Match & Dates Diary
Other p.6
The issue's forward diary, running 3 May to 31 July 2022 and ending on the European Championship the whole magazine is building towards. It opens on the UEFA Under-17 finals in Bosnia and Herzegovina…
SK Stats & Facts: Women’s FA Cup Final 2022 Facts
Column / Opinion pp.8–9
A two-page statistical history of the Women's FA Cup, compiled by Natalia Sollohub with Catherine Etoe and Jen O'Neill before the 2022 final. Arsenal dominate it: seventeen finals, fourteen won, nine of Rachel Yankey's…
Great Jess-pectations (Jess Carter interview)
Cover feature pp.10–14
Five pages with the Chelsea and England defender, conducted the day after the FA Cup semi-final win at Arsenal and eight weeks before a European Championship she would go on to be part of.…
View From The Field: Kerys Kicks (Kerys Harrop column)
Column / Opinion p.15
The Tottenham defender's regular column, written during an April international break with the season's shape still undecided. Harrop is genuinely awed by the numbers: 91,500 at Camp Nou for Barcelona against Real Madrid, the…
Barclays FAWSL Action Gallery (16 March – 24 April 2022)
Other pp.16–17
A two-page action gallery covering the Barclays FA WSL from 16 March to 24 April 2022, eleven images deep with a hashtag on each and a full clockwise caption key on the second page.…
Bunny In The City (Bunny Shaw interview)
Cover feature pp.18–21
Four pages with Manchester City's Jamaican forward at the end of her first season in England, with an FA Cup final against Chelsea still to come. Bunny Shaw talks about what the WSL has…
FAWSL Quick Kicks / Top Ten: Katie McCabe
Interview pp.22–23
Ten quick-fire questions for the Arsenal full-back and Republic of Ireland captain. Katie McCabe describes herself as aggressive in how she attacks and defends and wholly committed to the team, and defers the dressing-room…
When A Scouse Becomes A Home (Katie Stengel interview)
Cover feature pp.24–26
Three pages with the American forward whose January arrival reunited her with Matt Beard, her old Boston Breakers coach, and helped carry Liverpool back to the WSL. Katie Stengel is very funny on the…
FA WSL Fast Fives: Katie Stengel (Liverpool)
Interview p.27
The magazine's two-half questionnaire, put to Liverpool's American forward alongside her main interview. Katie Stengel reckons she is playing some of her best football, in a good place mentally and physically and finally confident…
Wolves Out To Keep Winning & Miller Aims To Inspire (Ali Miller)
Interview pp.28–29
Two pages with the Wolves striker who read the previous issue and did something about it. April Udall, the ten-year-old Wolves supporter interviewed in She Kicks 72, had named Alisha Miller as the player…
Saints Seal Double (Marieanne Spacey-Cale interview)
Interview p.30
A single page with Southampton's manager after her side won the FA Women's National League Premier South title and the League Cup inside a week, in their first season in Tier 3. Marieanne Spacey-Cale…
View From The Field: Ward’s Words (Helen Ward column)
Column / Opinion p.31
The Watford forward and Wales record goalscorer marks her hundredth cap, won against France on 8 April 2022. Helen Ward is straightforwardly proud of joining a century club containing Jess Fishlock, Loren Dykes and…
Barcelona Poster
Poster pp.32–33
A double-page poster of six Barcelona players celebrating a goal in front of the record Camp Nou crowd against Wolfsburg in the Champions League semi-final, the group running continuously across both pages with the…
Sunshine On Leith (Leah Eddie interview)
Interview pp.34–37
Four pages with the Hibernian centre-half, interviewed by Catherine Etoe, and a candid account of what part-time football actually means. Leah Eddie works full-time as an engineering technical clerk at Petroineos and trains three…
View From The Field: Murray’s Matters (Joelle Murray column)
Column / Opinion p.38
The Hibernian captain's regular column, written with five games left and third place already gone, so that consolidating fourth is the aim. She is unsparing about a season that dropped points in games where…
She Kicks Careers: Edwards Steps Up As An Army Footballer (Demi Edwards)
Interview pp.39–40
Two pages from the She Kicks Careers strand on combining football with a life in the Armed Forces. Demi Edwards is a QPR forward, a Lance Corporal in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing…
World Cup 2023 Qualifying Gallery, 8-12 April
Tournament feature pp.42–45
Four pages of pictures and results from the April 2022 World Cup qualifying window, group by group. Northern Ireland travel to Austria full of hope and are three down inside ten mad minutes after…
How Do Teams Make It To WWC 2023?
Other p.45
A numbered explainer box setting out the route to the 2023 World Cup, printed alongside the April qualifying gallery when the group stage was reaching its decisive weeks. The nine European group winners qualify…
Aussie Kicks: The 2021-22 Liberty A-League Season
Tournament feature pp.46–48
Ben Gilby reviews a Liberty A-League season that looked routine and was anything but. Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory met in a second consecutive Grand Final, Victory retaining the title at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium…
World Kicks: Italy
Tournament feature pp.49–51
Glenn Moore's country primer on Italy, timed for a Champions League final in Turin and a European Championship squad travelling in confidence. Women's football began there in the 1930s and was banned by men…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Captain’s Chat with Laura Bassett
Interview pp.52–53
Ten years after the event, the Locker Room's captaincy slot goes back to 26 May 2012, when Birmingham City beat Chelsea on penalties at Ashton Gate and Laura Bassett lifted the FA Cup -…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Game Ready with Justine Vanhaevermaet (Reading)
Interview pp.54–55
The Locker Room's match-day routine slot, with the only Belgian in the WSL in 2021-22 - a Reading midfielder, a qualified physio, and a player who missed the last European Championship through a late…
The She Kicks Locker Room: The Menu with Caitlin Foord (Arsenal)
Interview p.56
The Locker Room's culinary Q&A, with the Arsenal and Matildas forward the magazine introduces as a flying Aussie who likes catching a wave about as much as breezing past a defence. Caitlin Foord cannot…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Kit Check with Chloe Kelly (Manchester City)
Interview p.57
The Locker Room's kit slot, put to Manchester City's number nine as she came back into the side and back among the goals. Chloe Kelly's first boots were Umbro, still at her mother's house…
The She Kicks Locker Room: Car Quiz with Claire Emslie (Everton)
Interview p.58
The Locker Room's car-themed questionnaire, put to Everton's Scotland international, recently seen racing through to score at Old Trafford's Stretford End. Claire Emslie drives a Jeep called Juicy, and if it were a footballer…
The She Kicks Locker Room: What’s On Your Phone? with Rachel Brown-Finnis
Interview p.59
The Locker Room's phone questionnaire, with the former England, Team GB and Everton goalkeeper who has moved from the goal line to the commentary box. Rachel Brown-Finnis last called her daughter's school, having realised…
Little Kicks: Born Kicking with Chloe Logan (age 8)
Other p.60
The magazine's young-reader slot, this issue with eight-year-old Chloe Logan from north Nottinghamshire, a Sheffield United Women fan who plays for the club's Under-9 Bladettes and is described, accurately, as brilliantly sharp for a…
Little Kicks: We Kick! with Liverpool Feds U11s
Run-of-page feature p.61
The junior club slot, in which Liverpool Feds' Under-11s are quizzed by their own vice-chair and coach. The answers about school are the ones that land. Lexi plays with boys and girls from her…
Saving Grace (cartoon strip by Steve English)
Other p.61
A four-panel comic strip in the junior section, drawn and written by contributor Steve English. Grace, the young goalkeeper the strip is named for, is again the victim of the format's running joke about…
For Kicks & Giggles: Spot the Difference and Cup Kicks
Other p.62
The issue's puzzle page, running two games under one banner. Spot the Difference uses Liverpool's Championship title celebration - Matt Beard's side having gone up with games to spare - and asks readers to…