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News She Kicks, issue 41, May 2017 pp.4–6
The news pages open with the full World Cup 2019 qualifying draw, which puts England and Wales in the same group and pairs Northern Ireland with the Republic. Shelley Kerr is confirmed as Anna…
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93 articles indexed from the She Kicks and Her Goal archive
Ini Umotong In The Spotlight (2016 WSL 2 Player Of The Year)
Interview She Kicks Special Edition, February 2017 pp.4–7
Oxford United's striker arrived from Portsmouth in February 2016 with her then manager Les Taylor predicting she would be a handful for defenders; thirteen goals in nineteen games made that an understatement, and she…
Lionesses Feeling Pride In The Shirt (Ashlee Hincks & Leighanne Robe Player Interview)
Interview She Kicks Special Edition, February 2017 pp.37–38
Millwall's top scorer and their player of the year talk about a season of eleven winless league games, player and managerial change, and a finish under Lee Burch that gave them hope. Ashlee Hincks,…
2016 FA Women’s Football Awards, Wembley Stadium
Run-of-page feature She Kicks, issue 39, January 2017 pp.8–10
The FA Women's Football Awards returned to Wembley on 18 November 2016. Jordan Nobbs took the Vauxhall England Women's Player of the Year, admitting she was gobsmacked and had to spit out her chewing…
WSL Winter Jet-Set: Where the Players Went
Other She Kicks, issue 39, January 2017 p.25
A boxed list records where fifteen WSL players spent the winter break before Christmas 2016, compiled, the magazine admits, by an unscientific process of occasionally noticing tweets. Izzy Christiansen went to the Philippines, Gemma…
SK Position Guide: Striker, with Fran Kirby
Run-of-page feature She Kicks, issue 39, January 2017 pp.50–51
Fran Kirby sets out the striker's job in the second player instalment of the position guide series. The purpose is to score, but to do that she must be creative, bring others into the…
Safe Hands: Frances Kitching (Chelsea Ladies)
Interview She Kicks, issue 38, November 2016 p.42
Chelsea goalkeeper Frances Kitching went in net for her father's team Wickersley Youth because nobody else would, and got stuck there, discovering she was better in goal than as a striker. She names as…
Teens Take Centre Stage (Karen Carney & Eni Aluko)
Interview She Kicks Special Edition, October 2016 p.35
A joint feature on the two teenagers who lit up Euro 2005, both of whom began under Marcus Bignot at Birmingham City, went on to play professionally in America and were by 2016 together…
The Double Blues (Chelsea 2015)
Other She Kicks Special Edition, October 2016 p.66
A retrospective on Chelsea's 2015 Double, built around Emma Hayes. It records that more than 30,000 marched along Wembley Way on 1 August 2015 for the first Women's FA Cup final at the stadium,…
The She Kicks Locker Room: The Before & After with Gemma Davison
Interview She Kicks, issue 37, September 2016 pp.60–63
Chelsea forward Gemma Davison describes her matchday. She keeps to scrambled egg on toast or similar and does not like eating much before a game, taking a banana or just a drink at half…