Euro 2020: No room for WAGs in England Team Hotel

 

Coach Gareth Southgate has revealed that England’s WAGs and families will be banned from the team hotel for the duration of Euro 2020.

UEFA protocols around Covid-19 make it impossible for Three Lions stars to catch up with their loved ones – even though the team will be based at St. George’s Park.

The likes of Fern Hawkins, Megan Davison and Katie Goodland will have to make do with catching glimpses of their other halves on FaceTime and WhatsApp.

Southgate is hoping that he can give his stars some time off at home with their families in between matches. But even that remains unclear with the tournament scheduled to begin in on June 11.

Southgate said: “We’re not going to be able to let people in.

“There’s a clear edict from Uefa on what the bubbles need to look like to be as secure as we can make them.

“It’s never going to be 100 per cent failsafe but we’ve got to comply with as much as we can.

“We’re hoping that we might at some point be able to let the players have a little bit of time at home.

“But that’s constantly being assessed. It’d be a preference for us if we can.

“But of course, we’ve got to monitor not only our own situations, but where we are as a country, what are the variants, what the government guidelines are.

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England will get their Euro 2020 campaign underway against Croatia on June 13 at Wembley.

The Three Lions then face Scotland on June 18 before concluding their Group D fixtures with a match against Czech Republic on June 22.