After England’s 3-0 World Cup victory over Senegal on Sunday night, Marcus Rashford took to Instagram to celebrate the win and his 50th England cap by posting an adorable photo in the stands with his leading lady. No, not Lucia Loi, his girlfriend of nine years, but Melanie Rashford: his mum.
In World Cups gone by, it was routine for the post-England match tabloids to be dominated by glossy pictures of the team’s wives and girlfriends celebrating with their partners, both in the stadium and in the nightclubs. It was a British delicacy — the mini-skirts and low-rise jeans, the messy nights out, the ones we all thought secretly hated each other. But watching the tournament this year, I can’t help but notice: where are all the WAGs?
