The England Women's Fanzine from the Football Supporters' Association
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FREE LIONESSES IN ASSOCIATION WITH The England Women's Fanzine from the Football Supporters' Association FREELIONESSESWWC2019 1 ‘Some people say that subscribing to She Kicks Magazine makes you THIS happy!’ SHEKICKS SUBSCRIPTIONS www.shekicks.net/shop ONLY (Single issues also available) Or call us on £22FOR 1 YEAR’S SUBSCRIPTION 0191 442 4001 2 FREELIONESSESWWC2019 FOREWORD WELCOME TO FREE LIONESSES, FROM THE FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS’ ASSOCIATION THE ESSENTIAL SUPPORTERS’ GUIDE TO FOLLOWING ENGLAND AT THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP. Free Lionesses has been put together by fans, for fans. Our fans’ embassy service has been assisting supporters of the men’s national team for more than two decades, and we’re delighted to be in France at our first women’s tournament following Phil Neville and his team, hopefully all the way to Lyon on 7th July. Over the coming pages you’ll find plenty of advice and information to help you make the most of your trip, whether you’re just here for one game or going to every match along the way. For more in-depth information, which will be updated throughout the run-up to the tournament, head to our website – bit.ly/freelionesses. We look forward to welcoming you to one of our fans embassies. Deborah Dilworth Editor Free Lionesses SHE KICKS ARE DELIGHTED TO HAVE WORKED WITH THE FSA AND THE FA TO PUT TOGETHER THIS FIRST EVER EDITION OF ‘FREE LIONESSES’ Travelling to watch the England women’s side has always been a privilege and a A MESSAGE TO YOU, FROM true joy. The team play with passion and pride on the field and those that put in PHIL NEVILLE, ENGLAND the miles and smiles, to roar their support - that’s the players’ MADBAPs (as they WOMEN’S HEAD COACH: were once known, meaning Mums and “Everywhere I go, at matches or just Dads, Boyfriends and Partners), teamies/ walking down the street, people are friends and every England fan - are all part telling me their plans for heading of a growing family. The information and across the Channel and how they can’t support that the FSA’s Fan Embassies and wait to cheer the team on in person. The FA’s Fan Hubs will provide for travelling “I want to thank you all. We will never supporters is a much-welcomed addition take your support for granted and we and something that we at She Kicks are are grateful for the time, effort and proud to have backed from the outset. money you invest in cheering us on. This will be the sixth FIFA Women’s World “This summer we want to show we Cup that I personally have attended, and can more than compete with the elite the fourth following England. In the past, teams on the biggest stage of all, but it felt amazing just to see a team from you’ve proved already that England England on the world stage - now we are fans are the very best in the world.” heading to France with a real chance of winning it. Applaud every kick, appreciate a fantastic country and its people, raise a EMERGENCY? few ‘sherbets’, have fun, make new friends CALL THE FSA FOR and lasting memories, be respectful, look SUPPORT/ADVICE: after each other and... #DARETOSHINE! Jen O’Neill Editor, She Kicks - +44 7858959681 the magazine for women’s football DO YOU WANT TO JOIN THE FSA? VISIT: BIT.LY/JOIN-THEFSA @SheKicksdotnet FREELIONESSESWWC2019 3 CONTENTS WHAT’S INSIDE STAY UP WHO ARE THE FSA? PAGE 5 TO DATE By the very nature of the printed ENGLAND’S OPPONENTS PAGE 6 word, this fanzine had to be completed some time in advance LIONESSES SQUAD PROFILES PAGE 8 of the tournament in order to make it into your hands before GETTING TO KNOW OUR HOSTS PAGE 10 the opening game. All was correct at the time of ESSENTIAL WORDS & PHRASES PAGE 14 going to print. PAGE 16 For the most in-depth and up- GOING TO THE GAME to-date information, head to bit. PAGE 20 ly/freelionesses, including more CITY GUIDE: NICE official information from FIFA, ideas for those travelling with CITY GUIDE: LE HAVRE PAGE 23 kids, accessibility information for disabled fans and much more. CITY GUIDE: LYON PAGE 26 For news on the ground and daily updates from the tournament, ROAD TO THE FINAL PAGE 28 follow our fans’ embassy updates DO NOT BRING: PROHIBITED ITEMS PAGE 30 on Twitter @FreeLionesses. Free Lionesses has been produced by the Football Supporters’ Association (FSA), the national membership-based organisation for football fans, in partnership with The FA. We have tried our best to ensure the accuracy of all the information provided in this fanzine, but can accept no responsibility for any loss, injury or inconvenience suffered by anyone relying on its contents. None of the financial support we receive impacts on anything that we put into the fanzine. Consequently, none of our partners or supporters can be held responsible in any way for the contents of, nor the views expressed in, this fanzine. Design by ShandMedia 4 FREELIONESSESWWC2019 WHO ARE THE FSA? If you haven’t heard of the FSA then that’s not a big concept of a fans’ embassy, which we are running here surprise – we’re only just settling in to our new name. at France 2019. We have since exported the idea to fans You may be familiar with either (or both) of the Football in countries across Europe as a model of how football Supporters’ Federation or Supporters Direct, however, fans are stakeholders to be engaged with, and not a the two national supporter groups merged in late 2018 problem to be managed at major tournaments. to form the FSA, joining our resources to do even more Together we’re stronger on behalf of football supporters. We work in close collaboration with our friends at Level The Football Supporters’ Association, to give us our Playing Field, who represent disabled football fans, and full name, is the national supporters’ organisation also work alongside anti-discrimination charity Kick It for all football fans, representing more than 500,000 Out in our Fans for Diversity campaign – helping make individual fans and members of more than 300 local clubs more reflective of the communities that surround supporters’ organisations from every club in the them, and opening the door to people who previously professional structure in the men’s game, and an thought that football wasn’t a world for them. We’ve increasing number of women’s football fans, too. done this through a range of initiatives and events, Our Work along with helping with the creation of supporter We are the leading advocates of cheaper ticket pricing, groups for typically under-represented communities, better supporter engagement, the choice to stand at including dozens of LGBT+ fans’ groups in the Premier football, good governance and fan empowerment in its League and EFL in the past few years. many forms. We are also founder-members of Football Supporters As the national organisation for fans, we have regular Europe – the European-wide representative body who meetings with the Premier League, the EFL and The are the officially recognised fans’ body who deal with FA, to take supporters’ concerns right to the top table. UEFA on issues that affect fans across the continent. We are also secretariat to the All Party Parliamentary Get Involved Football Supporters Group, meaning we get to bend the But it’s not all about us. In fact, it’s not about us at ears of MPs who follow football, aiming to strengthen all, but about you, the football supporter. The FSA the voice of football fans within Parliament. We’ve even got two fan representatives on the FA Council. welcomes approaches from fans who wish to campaign on issues that matter to them. We also help hundreds of individual fans every year - we take up specific cases that are raised with us by Our fans’ embassy team will be at each game members or affiliated organisations, and we encourage throughout this tournament and would be happy to fill the participation of all supporters in this process. We you in further on the ways in which you can get involved receive emails and calls on a regular basis from fans – whether that’s by helping you set up a new supporters who feel they’ve been badly treated by clubs, stewards group at your WSL or Championship club, campaigning or police, or whose concerns and complaints are falling on the issues that are affecting you and your fellow on deaf ears. fans, or getting involved in helping out in future Free Lionesses work with the national team. Our caseworker and volunteers work with supporters to help them resolve their problems and get the best We have a campaigns budget which can be accessed by outcome for all concerned. We can even point them members to pay for materials and other costs towards in the right direction for legal advice, should it be work within the women’s game, and it’s an area that, off necessary, and work with Police forces throughout the back of a hopefully successful tournament, we’ll be England and Wales to improve matchday policing, looking to build on further. We’d love to have you along acting as a critical voice when standards of policing and to help us ensure that fans of the women’s game have stewarding fall below an acceptable level. their voices heard too. We’ve supported fans of the England men’s national So if you’d like to get involved or have a skill that you team at tournaments since the 90s, pioneering the believe could be put to use, come and speak to us.