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Terry Wogan writes about Alison Kervin's week in the media and how he has seen her articles everywhere promoting Wags At The World Cup.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/terrywogan/7176580/What-a-week-to-be-a-WAG.html
What a week to be a WAG! When I saw the 'Terry' headlines, I thought they'd finally got something on me, says Terry Wogan
What a week to be a WAG! And what a week to be Alison Kervin, a sports writer who has just published a book on that very subject, identical excerpts from which could be avidly read in most newspapers. Timing, it's a gift.
And what do we learn of these pampered lovelies, living lives of luxury in their mansions and impeccable gardens, set well behind the gates and walls that would keep out the most zealous paparazzo? Are they enjoying a lotus-eating life of unrestrained pleasure, pink champagne in the jacuzzi to start the day, the spa in the afternoon, and every night on the town in the trendiest clubs with the "lads" and fellow WAGS?
Ha! That's what you think. They're lonely, bored and afraid.
And it's not because they're not being asked to lunch or bridge by snooty neighbours in Oxshott or Alderley Edge, because most of them are footballers' wives as well.
They're desperately unhappy playing second-best to football clubs that only care about their husbands, and they're pale with the exhaustion of worrying about what their husbands are getting up to when the big gates close behind them.
According to Ms Kervin, they're right to worry. She paints a frightening picture of half-naked young women flinging themselves on defenceless, vulnerable footballers at every turn. Even when the wives are present, they have to fight tooth and nail to defend their poor spouses from the wiles of these harpies.
It's hell, but does nobody spare a thought for the footballer?
To whom does he turn in these stressful moments? Well, of course, Max Clifford; but what if the wife/girlfriend has got there first?
This sad, no, pathetic state of affairs has been brought into sharp relief by the "Terry" revelations. Frankly, when I saw the headlines first, I thought that they'd finally got something on me, and was booking the one-way to Rio, before Herself read the rest of the article to me.
As I write this, the papers are taking a high moral tone, and shifting all responsibility on to the England coach, Fabio Capello. "Sack Terry as England captain?"
If I were Capello, I would have made an excuse about a sick aunt and hidden out in Naples. It's football, stupid... In the Shed at Stamford Bridge they'll be singing hymns and arias to their hero's virility, and who do you think will get the biggest cheer when England next play at Wembley?
Think again, Capello. If it happened in Italy, Terry could run for president. |
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