Issue
February 2023 25 articles indexed
Read She Kicks issue 77 in full
Column / Opinion p.3
Six months after the EUROs, Jen O'Neill finds the uplift still holding: 28,565 at St James' Park for Newcastle United's FA Cup second-round tie with Barnsley, a record for the competition outside the final,…
News pp.4–6
A news run pointed squarely at a World Cup summer. More than half a million tickets had gone to fans in over 120 countries by mid-January, and adidas launched OCEAUNZ as the match ball.…
Other p.7
A page of photographs from the weekend the bigger clubs entered the Vitality Women's FA Cup, taking in Birmingham City's third-round win over Huddersfield on 8 January and then various fourth-round ties on 29…
Poster p.8
A full-page team photograph of the Arsenal side lined up before a Champions League fixture, printed as a poster with the competition's starball device and no caption of any kind. The players stand in…
Column / Opinion p.9
Kerys Harrop's first column of 2023 finds Tottenham in need of a second half to the season. She is candid that the start has not been good enough and pins some hope on two…
Cover feature pp.10–15
Six pages with the Scotland midfielder in her first season at Real Madrid, a club whose white shirt she wore as a child in Dunfermline. Weir describes a house outside the centre with a…
Other pp.16–17
Two pages from a winter of frozen pitches and January arrivals. Martha Thomas makes it five for Manchester United against Liverpool; Everton's Emily Ramsey takes a confident catch against Arsenal; Aston Villa's Rachel Daly…
Interview pp.18–23
On loan at Aston Villa from Manchester United and scoring against her parent club's rivals, Kirsty Hanson explains a move made for minutes rather than money. She had not played enough the previous season,…
Interview pp.24–25
A five-time European champion with Lyon and an Olympic gold medallist with Canada, Kadeisha Buchanan had joined Chelsea's backline that season and takes the ten-question slot. She describes herself as very calm, or nonchalant,…
Interview pp.26–31
Twenty years old, a Lioness since November and one of the most direct wingers in the WSL, Katie Robinson talks about a route into the game that barely existed where she grew up. From…
Poster pp.32–33
A double-page pull-out poster of the Manchester United and England midfielder in the club's green-and-yellow change strip, stretching for the ball at full length across both pages, her name set vertically in yellow on…
Poster p.35
A full-page pull-out poster of the England defender in the red away shirt, on the ball at an international, her name in large red type beside the printed hashtags #100CAPS and #LIONESS, the photograph…
Interview pp.36–37
Born in Brighton, raised in New South Wales from the age of eight and a W-League debutant at sixteen for Newcastle Jets, Libby Copus-Brown had taken about the longest road possible back to East…
Interview pp.38–39
In her third season at Partick Thistle and previously the team's top scorer and assist maker, Clare Docherty had accepted a move to right-back and takes the questionnaire in good humour about it: her…
Match report pp.40–41
Rangers beat seven-time League Cup winners Hibernian at Tynecastle on 11 December in the first Scottish women's domestic game shown live on Sky Sports, and took the trophy for the first time. Player of…
Interview pp.42–45
Millie Farrow began writing four years earlier, at Reading, after a stress fracture in her back, because her family had joked she could write a good book one day. The result, Brave Enough Not…
Interview pp.46–51
Everton's Danish head coach arrived after a season of three managerial structures and a tenth-place finish, with a brief to build and stabilise rather than chase Europe. He is a carpenter by trade and…
Interview pp.52–53
Southampton took to their first Championship season well after winning the play-off against Wolves, and their captain is a defender who had played at that level for London Bees. Parnell describes herself as reserved…
Interview pp.54–55
A Champions League winner at Barcelona and a Spain international, Leila Ouahabi had traded Catalonia for Manchester that season, and walks through a matchday from the inside. Breakfast is avocado toast with egg and…
Interview p.56
Birmingham City's 4-0 win at Sunderland in August was an early marker in their pursuit of a WSL return, and for Lily Simkin it was something more: a late cameo at the Stadium of…
Interview p.57
Back in England with Tottenham after a spell at Orlando Pride, the former Manchester United defender takes the kit questionnaire. Her first boots were Puma Kings, which she reckons set her up for life…
Interview p.58
Hearts' New Zealand international had been scoring since her move to Edinburgh, and the food questionnaire is built around the vegan lifestyle she credits with better wellbeing, performance and recovery. Grapefruit is the one…
Interview p.59
Charlton Athletic were in the Championship promotion mix and looking to a 22-year-old forward, playing professionally in the south London she is from, to fire them up. She hands over her phone. The last…
Other pp.60–61
Two readers share the slot. Seven-year-old Ava Kenwrick-Lapthorne from Birmingham plays up front for Stourbridge Under-8s so she can score goals, supports Birmingham City's men and Manchester United's women, and names Ella Toone three…
Other p.62
Three puzzles close the issue. Spot the Difference uses the Rangers squad celebrating their Sky Sports Cup final win over Hibernian, the designer being a Rangers supporter, and hides ten changes among them a…
