• Defender criticises stances of host country for men’s World Cup
  • ‘We have strong values as a team which aren’t reflected in Qatar’

Lionesses centre-back Lotte Wubben-Moy has said she will be supporting the England men’s team at the World Cup in Qatar but “won’t be watching” the tournament due to the country’s views on women, homosexuality and human rights.

“It’s tough,” said Wubben-Moy, who is travelling with England to Spain for friendlies against Japan and Norway on Friday and next Tuesday. “As an England team we all have strong values and a lot of those values aren’t reflected, in the way that we see it, in Qatar.”

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