Keep Kicking (Editor’s Letter)

Jen O’Neill introduces the cup final issue, built as it has been for more than a decade around asking the players themselves to describe their team-mates – this year Alex Scott for Arsenal and Gemma Davison, Fran Kirby and Hannah Blundell for Chelsea. The two finalists’ goalkeepers carry the main interviews, and a new regular Safe Hands slot begins because those between the sticks are so often overlooked. She raises the season’s live controversy, frustration with officials and decisions in the early WSL rounds, which the magazine’s fans’ forum debates rather than simply complains about. She closes on participation: more than 22,000 girls took part in Girls’ Football Week in April, and 34 new Regional Talent Clubs have been licensed.