After England’s World Cup semi-final defeat of Australia, a grinning Millie Bright approached Sarina Wiegman with arms outstretched. The manager said something while shaking hands with Australia’s goalkeeper, Mackenzie Arnold, that made her captain pause before she waved Bright back in. Bright obliged, putting her arms round Wiegman and lifting her into the air.
It wasn’t the first time Bright had lifted aloft a grinning Wiegman and it likely won’t be the last. It has become ritualistic – perhaps there is now some superstition involved – and cameras wait for the much-loved manager’s embrace with her captain.
