Match report
·She Kicks, issue 54, June 2019 ·pp.8–9
Manchester City retained the Women's FA Cup with a 3-0 win over first-time finalists West Ham United at Wembley on 4 May 2019, in front of 43,264 spectators. The match turned on the second…
Interview
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.24–26
Ten years after leaving Celtic for Arsenal, Jennifer Beattie has settled into a centre-back partnership with Steph Houghton that has anchored Manchester City's unbeaten domestic season. She says City's willingness to build from the…
Interview
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.27–29
Gilly Flaherty will lead West Ham out for a fourth Wembley FA Cup final in five years, but insists it is nothing like routine. A seven-time winner with Arsenal and Chelsea, and holder of…
Other
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.30–33
West Ham's squad, assembled in six weeks for a first professional season, is introduced by two of its left-footers. Claire Rafferty and Rosie Kmita insist every player is lovely, then get specific. Becky Spencer…
Other
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·p.34
The special's second puzzle page hides eight faces behind bananas and asks readers to name the winners. The answer key doubles as a fourteen-year roll of Women's FA Cup final celebrations: Ramona Bachmann with…
Column / Opinion
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·p.3
Jen O'Neill introduces a free, smaller special issue built around the SSE Women's FA Cup final, and explains the tradition behind its centrepiece: for well over a decade She Kicks has run slightly alternative…
News
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.4–5
Two pages of news from April 2019, opening on England leapfrogging France into third in the FIFA world ranking after the SheBelieves Cup, with the number of ranked teams reaching a record 155. Alfie…
Other
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.7–9
Alongside honouring the two cup finalists, She Kicks prints a full honours list of who won what across England and Wales in 2018-19, complete up to 16 April. It runs from the FA Women's…
Match report
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.10–11
West Ham United reached a first FA Women's Cup final in a nervy shootout at Adams Park, Cho So-hyun striking the winner after both sides had missed two spot-kicks. Rachel Furness had headed Reading…
Interview
·She Kicks Special Edition, May 2019 ·pp.12–14
Matt Beard was ten and standing behind the goal at Wembley when Lawrie Sanchez headed Wimbledon past Liverpool in 1988, and he draws the obvious parallel before taking West Ham there as underdogs. His…