Issue
September 2022 41 articles indexed
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Other pp.1–2
The issue opens without a word. Two full-bleed photographs run before the masthead: England gathered on the podium beneath the UEFA Women's EURO 2022 arch as the ticker-tape falls, and a second pitch-side celebration…
Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill's editor's letter is written in the fortnight after Wembley and makes no attempt to be cool about it. Having asked during the final whether anyone who avoided a booking was really playing,…
News pp.4–6
Three pages of news framed by a tournament that had just finished and a season about to start. Three nations parted with their head coaches after the EUROs: Finland's Anna Signeul, Norway's Martin Sjogren…
Interview p.6
A short but substantial set-piece with Papua New Guinea head coach Nicola Demaine, who hails from London, after her side beat Fiji 2-1 to win the OFC Nations Cup and reach an intercontinental play-off…
Tournament feature p.7
The single page that opens She Kicks's EURO 2022 section, and a compact statement of what the magazine thought it had just watched. Fifteen teams arrived to join hosts England, all with eyes on…
Match report pp.8–9
England's tournament begins with a slightly nervy 1-0 win over Austria at Old Trafford before a competition-record crowd of 68,871 in the drizzle, and She Kicks reports the occasion as the bigger story than…
Match report pp.10–11
England's remaining group games, reported through the players' own words. The 8-0 defeat of Norway at Brighton is carried largely by Ellen White, who calls it indescribable and absolutely mental, remembers euphoria at every…
Tournament feature pp.12–13
Northern Ireland's first appearance at a major tournament, told mostly by the players who made it. The campaign opened with a 4-1 loss to Norway that cost Simone Magill a knee injury and brought…
Poster p.14
A full-page team photograph of the Northern Ireland side at EURO 2022, printed as a poster with the Irish FA crest and no caption of any kind. The starting eleven are lined up in…
Tournament feature p.15
The other half of Group A, and the tournament's first genuine surprise. Austria's resilience against England at Old Trafford, where they conceded their only group-stage goal, proved to be no fluke: Irene Fuhrmann's side…
Tournament feature p.16
A heavily stacked Group B in which the 2017 runners-up went out. Germany were back to their formidable best with a hundred per cent record, nine goals scored and none conceded, and were joined…
Tournament feature p.17
A group that ended as expected, with Sweden and the Netherlands through, but whose table hides how close Switzerland came. The Swiss led 2-0 after five minutes of their opening match only for Portugal…
Tournament feature p.18
France announced themselves by blowing Italy apart 5-1, a game that included a hat-trick from midfielder Grace Geyoro and sent hopes soaring that things were finally coming together for Les Bleues, though losing striker…
Match report pp.19–20
The game that turned England's tournament, reported as an epic. A packed Brighton saw a brilliant Spain side genuinely test the hosts, with Sarina Wiegman getting the negative Covid test she needed only hours…
Match report pp.21–22
The other three quarter-finals, all decided by fine margins. Germany made it through against Austria despite another immensely spirited display from their neighbours, who hit post, bar and post again, Lina Magull and Alexandra…
Match report pp.23–24
A strong Swedish start was thwarted by Mary Earps, and once Beth Mead added her sixth of the tournament with a quality touch and finish, England and the crowd never looked back. Lucy Bronze…
Match report pp.25–26
Germany reached a record ninth EUROs final and Alexandra Popp continued the tournament's outstanding individual run, taking two finishes from Svenja Huth crosses. Kadidiatou Diani, more limited in a central role, forced the equaliser…
Tournament feature pp.27–31
The two best teams in the tournament met in the final and provided drama from the first second to the last, including six-goal Alexandra Popp being ruled out just before kick-off. It was a…
Other p.32
A page of photographs taken in the minutes after the final whistle at Wembley, built around Jill Scott's first words in the mixed zone: that she could not believe it and thought it would…
Run-of-page feature p.33
Catherine Etoe worked the Wembley concourse before the final and the result is the issue's best evidence of who the tournament reached. Marie Lomax, from Nottinghamshire, had been following women's football for precisely one…
Other pp.34–35
Two pages of supporters, and an admission from the magazine that it could have filled several issues over with photographs of fans at EURO 2022. What survives is a deliberately random selection: face paint…
Poster pp.36–37
The issue's centrepiece poster: two facing pages of the England squad as European champions, printed without a word of caption and credited to Daniela Porcelli for Sports Press Photo. On the first, the team…
Tournament feature pp.38–39
What happened after the whistle. Rich Laverty reports the Lionesses and their families reunited at their Lensbury Resort base in west London with the trophy and gold medals, and then 7,000 well-wishers packing a…
Other pp.40–41
The tournament reduced to its figures. Thirty-one matches produced 95 goals, at 3.07 per match and one every 29 minutes. It began and ended with record crowds: 68,871 at Old Trafford for England's 1-0…
Column / Opinion pp.42–43
Two pages of the magazine handing out its own awards, and a useful record of the tournament's texture away from the pitch. Best fan embassy support goes to the FSA's Free Lionesses meet-ups and…
Poster p.44
The closing page of She Kicks's EURO 2022 section is a full-page portrait of Beth Mead holding the Player of the Tournament trophy, medal round her neck, the match detail stitched into her shirt:…
Interview pp.46–50
A long, unusually reflective interview with the Australia defender after a first season at Manchester City that she describes as a rollercoaster. Kennedy is candid about arriving from Tottenham, being away from family, falling…
Interview p.51
The Aston Villa midfielder answers the magazine's ten-question questionnaire and does it in character. Introduced as a genuine livewire and, even with a twin sister in sports broadcasting, an unmistakeable one-off, Littlejohn describes herself…
Interview pp.52–55
The Wales captain on a second Chelsea spell steeped in silverware, and on being the least demanding player in a dressing room full of internationals. Ingle describes a pre-season of drips and drabs as…
Interview pp.56–59
Twelve years at Sunderland, a title-winning loan at Liverpool in 2013, a spell at Reading and then a return to Merseyside to help the Reds back up: the Championship Golden Glove winner talks to…
Interview pp.60–61
Six years after her first appearance in She Kicks, the London City Lionesses forward returns off the back of what she calls her proudest career moment. Having played for England at youth level, Primus…
Interview p.62
The reigning Championship Golden Boot winner and Player of the Year takes the magazine's short-form questionnaire at the start of a promotion push. Harrison scored 17 league goals in 2021-22, four clear of anyone…
Run-of-page feature p.63
Catherine Etoe reports on the most significant structural change in Scottish women's football for years, as the league moves under the umbrella of the Scottish Professional Football League, which runs the senior men's game.…
Interview p.64
Signed from Lewes as part of seven summer recruits by Hearts boss Eva Olid, the striker began with a hat-trick in a 3-1 opening-day win over Partick Thistle at Oriam on 7 August, and…
Interview p.65
The Everton attacker, out since an ACL injury the previous September and newly signed through to the following summer, walks through her matchday from the inside. Oats or porridge on waking, pasta three hours…
Interview p.66
One of Crystal Palace's summer arrivals takes the magazine's food questionnaire. Reilly, one of three Scottish midfielders in the Eagles squad alongside Chloe Arthur and Leigh Nicol, had returned from a frustrating spell out…
Interview pp.66–67
The Chelsea forward, introduced as high on the list of homegrown prospects who might light up tournaments to come, submits to what the magazine calls an impromptu and totally unofficial kit check. Her first…
Interview p.67
With Birmingham City remade over the close season, Christie Murray is one of the dependable figures who stayed, and the magazine asks what has been draining her battery. The last call was to her…
Other p.68
The Little Kicks page hands itself over to readers, having asked England fans for their EURO snaps of smaller people and pets. The result is a gallery of dogs in England colours, a boxer,…
Other p.69
The Born Kicking slot meets two sisters from Portishead, and the magazine's own summary is that it is getting a slight vibe that Bethan is a Beth Mead fan. Bethan, who turns ten on…
Other p.70
The issue signs off with two EURO-themed puzzles under the For Kicks & Giggles banner, and an admission that having just produced a magazine mostly about it, the staff still cannot quite believe it.…
