Cup coaches split on bringing wives or playing sex-aside soccer

FOR Diego Maradona’s Argentine squad, sex is fine as long as it is not 2am and accompanied by a bottle of bubbly.

It is one of football’s hottest debates; is sex a distraction or can a little bit of what players fancy help ease the strain and tension of World Cup competition?

The polemic resurfaced at the World Cup this week after media claims the pitchside presence of Sara Carbonero, the Spanish goalkeeper’s glamorous girlfriend, was being blamed for Spain’s shock 1-0 defeat by Switzerland.