The science of sex bans: Why stopping WAGs from visiting the England team really could help their Euro 2024 chances By Libby Galvin Published: 16:54, 3 June 2024 | Updated: 02:27, 4 June 2024 e-mail View comments All athletes have their rituals in the run-up to a big competition: for some it's wearing lucky shorts, for others, it's a particular game-day breakfast. For footballers, it may include a ban on having sex — usually an edict from the team's manager, on the basis that their players' stamina and focus will suffer otherwise. At the 1998 World Cup in France , the then England manager Glenn Hoddle forbade players from intercourse for during the tournament.
Yet they were knocked out in the second round. In the 2014 World Cup, squads from Russia , Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile and Mexico were all told to refrain from sex, while other teams were allowed to have sex within certain parameters: 'not all night' for the French, nothing acrobatic (!) for the Brazilians, and only with wives, not girlfriends for the Nigerians. Harry Kane of England celebrates after victory after the UEFA Euro 2020 Championship Semi-final match between England and Denmark WAGs Megan Davison, wife of Jordan Pickford, Annie Kilner, wife of Kyle Walker, and Rebekah Vardy, wife of Jamie, during the World Cup in 2018 After all that, it was the free-loving German team who took first place.
Outside football, this year it was reported that five-time Masters winner Tiger Woods had cut out sex in the ru.
