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29 articles indexed from the She Kicks and Her Goal archive
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 67, June 2021 p.52
The Hibernian captain writes from a restarted SWPL, funded back into action by weekly COVID testing and compressed into Sunday, Wednesday, Sunday fixtures that her body, she says, does not need at her age.…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 61, June 2020 p.23
Hibernian captain and Scotland international Joelle Murray's View From The Field column, written as lockdown guidelines began to loosen. She has followed the English game through friends and former teammates: Sophie Howard at Reading…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 60, May 2020 p.40
Hibernian captain and Scotland internationalist Joelle Murray's View From The Field column on keeping a routine through lockdown: breakfast around nine, mid-morning exercise, lunch, work, Netflix, dinner and an evening household games night in…
Other She Kicks, issue 59, March 2020 p.65
The readers' page collects two photographs and the stories behind them. Maya's favourite player is Hibernian's Joelle Murray, the first Scotland player she ever met and, her parent writes, her inspiration - and she…
Interview She Kicks, issue 57, November 2019 pp.39–42
Joelle Murray says she feels like a fraud when she talks about going to work, because her office at Easter Road overlooks the pitch and her job is running the Hibs girls' academy. She…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 50, November 2018 pp.34–35
Joelle Murray's column charts her comeback after nearly five months out, her first fifteen minutes coming on a historic evening at Forfar's Station Park in the first SWPL game shown live on BBC Alba.…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 49, September 2018 p.35
Seventeen weeks after breaking an ankle, Joelle Murray is back in training with her team mates rather than beside them, though under a non-contact restriction she accepts cannot be rushed. She is squatting again…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 48, July 2018 p.42
Seven weeks after fracturing an ankle, Joelle Murray reports from the other side of the touchline. The first fortnight was spent house-bound with her foot elevated, her crutches doubling as toys for an eighteen-month-old…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 47, May 2018 p.35
Joelle Murray's column is a comeback story that turns over in its final paragraph. She describes rehabilitation from a stress response caused by repetitive load through the tibia, managed by wearing a GPS vest…
Column / Opinion She Kicks, issue 46, March 2018 p.52
Joelle Murray's column follows Scotland to a ten-day warm weather training camp in La Manga, beginning with fitness testing at Oriam, Scotland's National Performance Centre, on 15 January. She describes the squad flying out…
