Football widows
“Soon your man is going to openly start cheating on you again … Don’t panic … He is not going to abandon you for a blonde ten years your junior. He is going to forget you for 11 hairy men dripping in testosterone. You know, those ridiculous types with shiny shorts and hairy calves who persist in running after a ball and end up by rolling around on the ground yelling.” This text is taken from the preface of Onze nouvelles à lire seule, les soirs de match de foot (Eleven Short Stories to Read While Alone on Football Nights), by Emmanuelle Poigner at Pocket Editions. swissinfo
In compliance with the JTI standards
More: SWI swissinfo.ch certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative
You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here . Please join us!
If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.