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HE SHOOTS, HE DOESN'T SCORE
I’ve put my man on a sex ban for Euros 2024 – I love footie but how can I get hot & heavy with Harry Kane on the brain?
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GLUED to the TV screen, Jen Aitkin screams instructions as England play Iceland at Wembley Stadium for the Euros 2024 send-off match.
After Jon Dagur Thorsteinsson’s first-half strike Jen, 30, hopes the Three Lions will stage a second-half come back.
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Holding her breath, the admin manager, from Grimsby, North Lincs., can’t take her eyes off the game - not even when her husband asks whether she'd like another glass of wine.
For Jen, there's more than just a Euro 2024 warm-up win at stake.
She has BANNED sex until the Three Lions enjoy a victory - and it’s her husband, electrical engineer Chris, 33, who will be suffering.
“I am obsessed with footy,” she says. “I can’t concentrate on bedroom fun if England doesn’t win.
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"During the Euros I have to put my man on a sex ban. There is no scoring in the bedroom unless England scores on the field.
"If we win, Chris gets my full attention.
“If my team loses then he loses. For the next seven weeks my life is ruled by football.
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“Chris knows my romantic mood is governed entirely by my team’s performance.
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“If they fail on the field, I spend all night dissecting the game. I simply cannot get in the mood for sex."
While Jen lives and breathes the 'beautiful game', Chris isn't interested and doesn't understand her obsession.
“He knows during the Euros my mood will depend solely on who wins and loses," she adds.
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“He tells me I am bonkers. He moans I am obsessing and tells me I need to switch off. He just doesn’t get it."
Jen says she is a 'born and bred Manchester United supporter' and loves going to games with her mates - but with her blonde hair and tan, some assume she's only there to see what the WAGS are wearing.
“They’d be wrong," she says. "I may be blonde like them, but I can talk most men under the table when it comes to player stats and performance.”
Jen’s husband isn’t alone in his ‘suffering' when a major competition like the Euros is in full swing.
A study published in the European Journal of Population found football fans get less bedroom action when their team loses.
Experts also found that birth rates plunged nine months after a shock defeat triggered by changes in key hormones which result in lower libido.
I hope the England squad realise it’s not just bringing home the cup they are playing for. They are playing for Britain’s libido."
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Lead researcher revealed how 'negative mood induced by a defeat has a negative effect on fertility because it reduces the probability of intercourse'.
Jen says: “I knew my nookie no-no rule was backed by science.
“It’s impossible to get in the mood or find yourself turned on when your team fails to score and win.
“You spend all day excited about the game and then the letdown is awful. I can be in a bad mood for days after a loss.
“I hope the England squad realise it’s not just bringing home the cup they are playing for. They are playing for Britain’s libido.”
Footy-obsessed Jen is among the growing number of women who are serious football fans.
Women made up 14% of Premier League football fans back when the Euros 2000 was held.
The Euros are ‘me-time’. Some women go to a spa - I watch the Euros. It either gets me in the mood or destroys my mood."
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Now, two decades on, a survey by data analysis company Statista shows that figure has more than doubled with women making up almost a third [29%] of footy fans.
It’s helped by The Lionesses victory in Euros 2022.
Not only are more women following Premier League tables than ever before, but women’s football is now one of Britain's fastest growing sports.
The number of women playing football has increased by 17% with one in seven women playing for a team.
Jen started playing football when she was in primary school and now plays as midfielder.
“I remember playing footy when I was ten," she recalls. "I loved team sports and two years ago I signed up to play football again in the local women’s competition.
“I rekindled my love of playing the game, not just watching it.
“I think it’s crazy the FA didn’t lift its ban on English women’s football until 1971 and that England didn't have a fully professional women’s football league until 2018.
“Chris knows if I don’t perform well on the pitch in the local derby I am in a bad mood for the rest of the weekend."
He complains I pay more attention to the men on the field than him. He is right, but football is my addiction."
Jen
And Jen says watching the Euros is her version of ‘me-time’ and while some women might go to a spa to escape, she sticks to the telly.
Meanwhile, Chris picks up the household slack of housework, food shopping and cooking.
“When I am not watching matches, I am reading up on the games, looking at the stats or talking to my mates about the results,” she says.
"Chris is lucky if he gets an hour of my attention once a week during the Cup. He complains I pay more attention to the men on the field than him. He is right, but football is my addiction.
“Many of my mates are shocked that I have a Euro sex ban if England loses but you have to live and breathe the sport to understand."
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Chris says: “Jen has become a super football fan. She loves playing the game and watching it. I have to avoid her after a loss. She gets moody and mopey.
"I'm just hoping England are on form. This is serious. They don’t know how many of us fellas are suffering. I’ll just be glad when it’s over!"
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