Irish World Cup handshake snub comes after ex’s trip bikini photograph

We have now some drama down underneath.

Ruesha Littlejohn, a star on Eire’s Ladies’s World Cup staff, declined to shake the hand of Australia’s Caitlin Foord after the 2 groups performed one another within the group stage in Sydney on Thursday night time.

It will not be lengthy earlier than a doable motive for the snub was found.

Previous to the Ladies’s World Cup, Eire captain Katie McCabe confirmed to The Players Tribune that she and Littlejohn had break up after greater than seven years collectively.

McCabe and Foord, in the meantime, are teammates on Arsenal within the English Premier League’s ladies’s division.

The Daily Mail noted that the 2 had been not too long ago a part of an even bigger group of buddies that traveled collectively for a trip in Ibiza.

Foord can also be single, having not too long ago damaged up with Lia Walti, a midfielder on Switzerland and Foord’s teammate on Arsenal.

Australia defeated Eire 1-0 within the sport.

Day by day Mail mentioned that it “doesn’t infer that Foord had something to do with the breakdown of Littlejohn and McCabe’s relationship.”

The outlet cited sources near Crew Australia that mentioned Foord and McCabe are “merely good mates and their friendship had no bearing on McCabe’s break-up with Littlejohn.”

After the sport concluded, Littlejohn confronted Foord on the sector, and eyewitnesses advised the outlet that Littlejohn needed to be “restrained” by a number of of her teammates.

Eire’s subsequent group stage match is towards Canada on Wednesday, whereas Australia kicks off towards Nigeria on Thursday.