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Gemma Davison interview: Drop a Gem on ‘em – Sounds to step to, from a hot-footing Hotspur

by Christian BrookesPosted onApril 2, 2020

It has been a silverware-shimmering career for Gemma Davison so far, and no player has won more FA Women’s Super League titles than the England international. The ex-Arsenal and Chelsea star has so often been the unique ingredient, and for…

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Tinja-Riikka Korpela interview: These are the times – Everton’s good-time goalie playing in the key of today

by Christian BrookesPosted onNovember 8, 2019November 8, 2019

She comes from a city with a power anthem in its soul, and Finland captain Tinja-Riikka Korpela is feeling in pop-rockin’ harmony with her new club Everton. A wise, warm-hearted presence, she brings awareness gleaned from time at some of…

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Amy Turner interview: A tale of two roses – Made of steel to ‘Made of Stone’ for Manchester United defender

by Christian BrookesPosted onSeptember 19, 2019

It runs in the family just as much as being a full-blooded centre-half. For Amy Turner, music is wrapped up in her earliest memories, it was the antidote and the added energy in the hardest times, and it is every…

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Leah Williamson interview: Saved by the Beat: The New Class – Into the mix with Arsenal’s silky six

by Christian BrookesPosted onNovember 14, 2018November 14, 2018

Arsenal Women have started the season like an express train, evoking a flashback or two to the time they ruled the land. In the backline for Joe Montemurro’s swashbucklers has been Leah Williamson, a Gunners devotee who knows the intangibles…

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Isabelle Linden interview: ‘Oh what a feeling, when we’re dancing *through* the ceiling!’ – Bella and the German roof-raisers

by Christian BrookesPosted onJanuary 6, 2017February 3, 2018

Taking her club football overseas for the first time in 2016, Birmingham City’s German forward Isabelle Linden has come to appreciate both the beauty and illusion the game holds. As she looks forward at recapturing the kind of form that…

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A Beats & Rhymes FC message from Germany midfielder Julia Simic

Beyond just the dance celebrations and headphone-clad emergences from a team bus on match day, there is a whole world more connecting football and music. Beats & Rhymes FC tells the stories of how a song lights the fuse for a player, how bands and artists colourise their lives outside the game, and how music itself can bond an entire team.

The nostalgia of a first album, the weakness in the knees before an initiation song, or even those who’ve swapped the stadium for the studio. Since 2011, the performers and personalities from all around the men’s and women’s game have shared their soundtrack, along with career talk, teammates, memories and lessons learned from a life in the sport.

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