West Ham’s Tameka Yallop: ‘I was trapped in my own bubble with a baby’

Australia midfielder on being apart from her wife and daughter for six months and what playing in eight countries has shown her

Few can say the pandemic came at a good time, but the Australia midfielder Tameka Yallop is one of the exceptions. On 21 August 2020 Yallop and her wife, Kirsty, welcomed their daughter, Harley Rose, into the world and suddenly the virus that had halted the football and travel of the globetrotting player had an upside.

“It was definitely weird,” says Yallop, who has competed in eight countries and joined West Ham in May. “Timing-wise I was quite lucky because that was when my daughter was due and she is our first baby so all the nerves and the not knowing what to do took up a lot of my time and it was actually time that I really appreciated spending with my family. So, for me, it was kind of lucky timing with the world going into lockdown because I was trapped in my own bubble anyway with a new little baby.”

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/nov/26/west-ham-tameka-yallop-australia-i-was-trapped-in-my-own-bubble-with-a-baby