Issue
December 2022 35 articles indexed
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Column / Opinion p.3
Jen O'Neill opens with the good news: momentum carried over from the summer into higher attendances, better football and fuller coverage, headlined by a record WSL crowd of 47,367 at the Emirates for the…
News pp.4–6
A news run dominated by change. Hope Powell stepped down at Brighton after an 8-0 home defeat to Tottenham, with Amy Merricks taking interim charge, while Lydia Bedford left Leicester City and was replaced…
Run-of-page feature p.6
The FA gave every one of the 227 women to have played for England a permanent legacy number, revealed on the 50th anniversary of the team's first full international, a 3-2 win over Scotland…
News p.7
Awards season, and one player took most of it. Despite an ACL injury on the eve of the EUROs, Alexia Putellas won a second successive Ballon d'Or Feminin ahead of Beth Mead and Sam…
Other p.8
A page of photographs from an autumn Champions League group stage in which both English clubs went to France and won. Arsenal shocked the holders Lyon 5-1, Beth Mead celebrating with Kim Little after…
Poster p.9
A full-page pull-out poster of Chelsea's Australian striker Sam Kerr in the blue home shirt, driving away from a goalkeeper with the ball at her feet, captioned simply with her name and the number…
Other pp.10–12
Jill Scott and Ellen White announced their retirements days after She Kicks had put its European champions issue to press, so this is the tribute the magazine could not run at the time: three…
Column / Opinion p.13
Kerys Harrop's first column of the season, written for a Tottenham side who had started well, opens with the two retirements. She played alongside Ellen White at Birmingham, including the 2017 FA Cup final…
Cover feature pp.14–19
Six pages with the Manchester United and Wales midfielder, caught between a World Cup play-off defeat and a season in which United were pushing Chelsea and Arsenal. Ladd is reflective about Wales still building…
Other pp.20–21
Two pages of photographs covering the first ten weeks of the WSL season. Ella Toone opens the scoring in Manchester United's thrilling 3-2 win at Arsenal; Chloe Kelly leaps on Bunny Shaw after a…
Interview pp.22–27
Six pages with the Arsenal head coach, opening on a summer in which he combined BBC studio analysis with Swedish co-commentary at the EUROs and discovering the reality was four-hour drives home alone rather…
Interview pp.28–29
Barcelona's former eternal captain, a Champions League winner who returned to England with Manchester City, takes the ten-question slot. Losada describes herself as a tiki-taka player born into it at Barca but capable of…
Other pp.30–31
Two pages from the Championship's autumn, and a reminder of how much of the division's appeal is in the detail. Charlton goalkeeper Sian Rogers makes a diving save; Lexi Lloyd-Smith scores her second for…
Interview pp.32–34
The Birmingham City left-back arrived from Crystal Palace in July and made her Jamaica debut in September, which is why the season carried two ambitions at once: promotion to the WSL for the first…
Interview p.34
The Birmingham City left-back's second appearance in the issue, this time in the short-form questionnaire. Her aims for 2022-23 are stated without hedging: promotion, and selection for Jamaica's World Cup squad. She wears fourteen…
Tournament feature p.35
The draw for Australia and New Zealand 2023 was made in Auckland at the end of October, and She Kicks sets out what it means. England were grouped with China and Denmark plus a…
Other pp.36–37
A two-page reference spread setting out the entire fixture list for the ninth Women's World Cup, held across Australia and New Zealand in July and August 2023. The grid runs left to right by…
Tournament feature p.39
The play-off round that sent one British side to the World Cup and left another with nothing. Scotland beat EURO 2022 quarter-finalists Austria 1-0 in round one, Abi Harrison heading the winner two minutes…
Other pp.40–41
Two pages of numbers and photographs from England's autumn as European champions. A crowd of 76,893 watched them beat the world champions USA 2-1 at Wembley on 7 October. Under Sarina Wiegman they had…
Other pp.42–43
With the World Cup nine months away, sides used the autumn FIFA windows for serious preparation, and this gallery collects the results. Laura Freigang and Jule Brand celebrate with Paulina Krumbiegel after her late…
Interview pp.44–49
Six pages with the broadcaster who became Match of the Day's first female commentator, and an unusually good oral history of covering women's football before anyone else did. Oatley describes a working week that…
Interview pp.50–51
The first Aberdeen Women goal ever scored at Pittodrie went to Nadine Hanssen, in a 2-0 win over Glasgow Women in October, which gives her bragging rights in a household she shares with the…
Column / Opinion p.52
The Hibernian captain writes after a Sky Sports Cup semi-final win over Glasgow City, the club's fiercest rivals of the past decade and heavy favourites having won 4-0 a few weeks earlier. Murray describes…
Interview p.53
The Hibernian midfielder returned the previous October from a second ACL injury and had become a fixture in Dean Gibson's side, which is why her first answer is simply to stay fit, and her…
Interview pp.54–58
Five pages with the tournament's breakout goalkeeper, five years after she watched the Netherlands win EURO 2017 from the stands as a fan. Van Domselaar had made her senior debut only in February and…
Poster p.59
A full-page pull-out poster of the England midfielder in the white home shirt, running with the ball at an international, captioned with her name alongside the She Kicks and England marks. It sits at…
Interview pp.60–61
Eight years after she was part of Birmingham City's run to a Champions League semi-final, and via spells at Doncaster Belles and Brighton, Emily Simpkins found herself captaining a Charlton side chasing promotion. She…
Interview pp.62–63
Sunderland's stand-in captain, an old-timer in the Lasses ranks by her own reckoning at 25, walks through a matchday. Scrambled egg on toast, as much water as possible, a banana and a gel she…
Interview p.64
Durham signed a 52-cap England international for the season, and She Kicks put her in the kitchen. Jess Clarke, who brought experience of three tournaments with the Lionesses to the Championship side, loves everything…
Interview p.65
The Glasgow City forward, 21 and into double figures for the season by mid-October, submits to the kit questionnaire off the back of a third Scotland cap in a 2-1 friendly win over Venezuela.…
Interview p.66
Part of Aston Villa's promotion to the WSL in 2020 and now at Sheffield United with the same intention, Sophie Haywood was back in the action after an ACL injury and had spent time…
Interview p.67
The Reading defender, who signed up that summer for another two years with the club, hands over her phone. The last call was to her sister; the most important person in it is her…
Other p.68
Six-year-old Harper-Louise Trinity Mills from Birmingham is, the magazine says, a proper little Villain, and she is busier than most: Saturday mornings for Cradley Town DC Girls Under-7s and Sunday mornings for Halas Hawks…
Poster p.69
A full-page pull-out poster of the England midfielder in the red away shirt, on the ball at an international, captioned with her name alongside the She Kicks and England marks. It sits between the…
Other p.70
The issue closes with two puzzles built around Spain's remarkable year in youth football: an Under-20 side that beat Japan 3-1 in Costa Rica in August, and an Under-17 side that beat Colombia 1-0…
