Unless your husband died playing football like mine, don’t call yourself a ‘football widow’

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It’s World Cup season, which means the term used by women bemoaning their husbands’ absence is everywhere. But Kate Godfrey , whose husband died playing a football game, says the term is misogynistic and hurtful to real widows like her F ootball widow ? Are you really calling yourself that? I’m sorry, but unless your husband died playing – or at a push, watching – football , you are not a “ football widow ”. Mine did, and therefore, I am. Even before tragedy struck, I hated the term “football

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