The Anonymous Widower

Will Sweden Win Because They Have More Mothers In The Team?

I am posting this at half-time with the Lionesses two-nil down.

I think that Sweden has two mothers in the team and England has none.

I base my question because of four things.

• I played a game of real tennis once, with a sports psychologist and she felt that in real tennis, there could be an improvement in female players after childbirth. As real tennis has a universal computerised handicap, increase or decrease in performance is easily measured.
• There have also been a number of female athletes who have improved after childbirth.
• Mothers fight for their children.
• C and myself had three children in a short space of time. As we had no help and I was working from home, she looked after the elder two and I had the baby sitting on my desk in a plastic chair.

I would even take George across Regents Park to a client, if I needed to see someone. Sometimes, he would even be kidnapped by the secretaries.

One outcome, was that I was closest to George than my other two children and when he died, a psychologist, who knew me well, felt I grieved like a mother.

July 17, 2025 - Posted by AnonW | Sport | Football, Grief, Motherhood, Psychology, Relationships, Womens Euro 2025