Annie Kilner bottle feeds baby Rezon while cheering England from the stands after ‘catching private jet to Germany’… as friends claim she is ‘surrounded by love’ from fellow WAGS

Kyle Walker wasn’t the only one to take his mind off the ball as a woeful England side went down a goal to nil to Slovakia in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday night.

Annie Kilner watched on from the stands at the Veltins-Arena after flying to Germany on a private jet while bottle-feeding their baby son, as Walker and his team-mates struggled to impress during a dreadful last 16 campaign at Euro 2024.

Kilner, 30, has travelled from her Cheshire home with all four of the couple’s children after their marriage was rocked by the full-back’s admission that he had fathered a child out of wedlock with influencer Lauryn Goodman.

And friends claim she will have the full support of her fellow WAGS during the tournament.

A source told MailOnline: ‘Annie flew all four of her children by private jet to support Kyle and the team for the first knockout match against Slovakia.

“They love watching the team, cheering on their dad and mingling with the other families on the field. It’s what they’re used to because they grew up surrounded by the football world and nothing will change that.

“Knowing they are cheering him on from the stands, along with other members of his family, means everything to him.

“Annie is surrounded by love from the other WAGS who admire her strength and resilience. The WAGs recently pledged their support amid the circus surrounding Lauryn and want Annie to know they have her and Kyle’s back.

‘They are one big family, no matter what happens between the adults and the little ones. Together they take care of the children.’

Meanwhile, Kieran Trippier’s wife Charlotte sent fans into a frenzy this week after she posted a cryptic message on Instagram about ‘overcoming things’ – as sources criticized her decision to ‘put her marriage in the public domain’ .

While it is unclear who the post was intended for, Kieran is believed to have interpreted the words as being directed at himself. Meanwhile, Annie, the first WAG spotted heading to Germany, has been dealing with drama in her own private life for several months after being named as the father of TV star Lauryn Goodman’s children.

It has now been reported that Annie and Charlotte, who bonded when their husbands were signed for Tottenham Hotspur, may have formed a ‘deadly alliance’ in a show of solidarity amid drama at home.

The women, friends say, became ‘super close’ when they saw their other halves Kyle Walker and Kieran Trippier play in north London.

In 2015, when they were still in their early 20s, they also went out together frequently to enjoy the riches that came with being the partner of a Premier League star.

Although Walker and Trippier have since been sold, Annie and Charlotte are still friends. They share a common bond, in that they met their partners when they were schoolgirls, and grew up with the game.

When Charlotte, Kieran’s wife of eight years, posted a stunning and cryptic message on Instagram, football insiders were left wondering the same thing: is Charlotte following Annie’s playbook?

By using social media as their weapon of choice, how come not one but two of the England team’s marriages cause more drama off the pitch than the team on it?

The action kicked off on Tuesday as Trippier and Walker prepared to take on Slovenia in what proved to be another dull draw. Charlotte wrote on her public Instagram: ‘Sooner or later you’re going to get over the shit you swore you’d never get over and that’s the best feeling in the world.’

While it is not categorically known that the post was directed at Trippier, it is believed he acknowledged as much. Tellingly, it soon emerged that she had ‘unfollowed’ her husband – a deadly blow in the world of WAGs.

What happened next must have shocked England manager Gareth Southgate. As the match kicked off in Cologne, the nation was more interested in what was happening in the Trippiers’ marriage than in the penalty box.

Friends of the star were outraged by Charlotte’s outburst, accusing her of “picking the best time” to post it. What made the post even more striking was that, although Charlotte has a private Instagram account for her family and close friends, she chose to use her public account to share her apparent marital problems.

There is further evidence that all is not well in the Trippier family: last year Kieran was filmed getting close to a blonde woman in a Newcastle karaoke bar where he and his team-mates were celebrating United’s qualification for the Champions League.

Not long after, Charlotte and Kieran appeared together in a Prime Video documentary in which she spoke candidly about her struggles moving to Spain when her husband was signed for Atletico Madrid.

She said: ‘I was on my own for a long time. I felt so lonely… after about four months I said: ‘I don’t know if I can stay here, Kieran, I feel depressed. I have no family here, I have no friends here.’

A source who knows both Charlotte and Annie tells me: ‘It seems coincidental that they are such good friends, both clearly having marital problems and both making sure their private lives are discussed across the country when England is under such scrutiny. at the euro.

‘Annie has become somewhat of an expert at making her voice heard, whether that’s through her PR or by briefing journalists directly. Her relationship problems have everyone in their grip.

“Now it’s the same for Charlotte. It really seems to be a bit of a deadly WAG alliance that distracts their spouses and also overshadows the tournament.

‘Nobody saw Charlotte coming, it seemed like the drama couldn’t get any worse. And then it did.’

That’s certainly true, because since the start of the tournament, Annie, 30, has used all her skills and connections in a briefing war with her husband’s ex-lover.

Annie enlisted the help of a celebrity PR person and insisted that she also represent Walker “to make sure they’re on the same side.”

Annie and Lauryn have been at odds for a number of years after Lauryn appointed Kyle as the father of her two children: four-year-old Kairo and a ten-month-old girl.

Last week, Lauryn took Kairo to Frankfurt to cheer on his father when he was vice-captain of the England team against Denmark. Unlike Annie and the rest of the WAGs, there was no private jet to take her there. She took a commercial flight with her grandfather John and stayed in a hotel that she paid for herself, near the stadium.

Still, Annie was said to be “furious.” A number of stories then appeared in the media, some of which were outright untrue: one claimed that the FA had beefed up their security to prevent Lauryn from getting near the England WAGs, when in reality they had no idea they were there was what they confirmed to me.

There have also been attempts to get the press on side to criticise Lauryn for creating ‘a circus’ during the match, and to get the message across that Kyle Walker has ‘no emotional relationship’ with Kairo.

“Annie may not come out and say things like this but she is behind all this coming out,” says an England insider. “It is completely bizarre that she is doing this when the England team is playing a major tournament.

“She was furious that Lauryn went public with her attendance. She thinks she should have gone quietly, but it’s gotten to the point where it seems like Annie doesn’t want Lauryn to have a say.

‘That’s fine, but during a European Championship tournament, when your husband is vice-captain, it distracts both him and the team. It seems like a stupid time to do this.

‘Of course Lauryn is not innocent in all this, but she went along, at her own expense, and took her football-loving son to a game. It’s just so strange that so many people, including Annie, have such a problem with it.’