Wags At The World Cup Alison Kervin

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Forget Victoria Beckham, forget Coleen Rooney, you can even forget Cheryl Cole... Meet the ultimate footballer’s wife:

Tracie Martin is the true queen of the Wags - and this is going to be her year.

From her lemon-frosted highlights to the tips of her bejewelled bronzed toes, Tracie is the ultimate footballer’s wife.

The England squad are heading to South Africa for the World Cup and Tracie’s husband Dean has a place on the coaching squad. So the Martin family are on their way to South Africa.

And while the fight may be on for England to regain their rightful place in the history books, Tracie knows that the true battle will be fought in Gucci and in the pages of her favourite tabloids.

It’s old school wags versus the new breed of career girls. Fashion versus football. And Tracie is going to win!

What we think

The WAG fascination continues to South Africa, as the aging old school Wag Tracie battles for the attention of the paparazzi on the peripheries surrounding the beautiful game, Follow her as she battles against  the hard cold calculating new breed of career footballers wife. 

Hilarious at times interesting, but a wonderfully written true to life novel of the sad institution that is the domain of a Wag. Entertaining view of the driving force behind many footballers wives.

Jocelyn Manner FemaleFirst literature Critic

The Author

Alison Kervin is an award-winning freelance writer and journalist. Alison was formerly the Chief Sports Interviewer of The Daily Telegraph newspaper, producing a regular weekly sports interview for the Saturday edition of the paper as well as writing fiction and sports books. She has also written for The Sunday Times, Rugby World magazine, The Daily Mail and Observer Sports Monthly.
Alison has written nine highly-acclaimed books including three previous novels, The WAG’s Diary, A WAG Abroad and, most recently, Celebrity Bride.

She sits on numerous judging panels including the BAFTAS, BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Laureus International Sports Awards and the Magazine Journalist and Sports Journalist of the year Awards. Alison is available for interview and to write selected features. www.alisonkervin.com

WAGs at the World Cup is published 27th May 2010, paperback, £6.99