Footballer's Wives 2 - Memorable TV DVD Reviews

He’s such a bastard, I’m going to have to think up a new name for him, I’ve worn that one out

It’s corny, highly kitsch, camper than a row of tents, often outrageous and once seen you certainly will want to make sure you never miss it.

With footballers achieving pop star status and their wives getting almost as much press as them the time was ripe for a series examining their lifestyles, in 2002 series one arrived making a star of Zoe Lucker as the scheming Tanya in the process.

The series follows the players and wives of top premier club Earl’s Park FC, key characters include Chardonnay Lane-Pascoe (Susie Amy) married to Kyle; Tanya Turner (Zoe Lucker) married to star striker Jason who is having an affair with Kyle’s mum Jackie played by Gillian Taylforth (who gets pregnant and persuades Chardonnay and Kyle to adopt the baby), manager of Earl’s Park is Frank (played with malicious glee by John Forgeham). Series two picks up where the first series left off, with Chardonnay and Kyle taking delivery of their baby. Other key plot points of the series include Tanya making eyes at the teenage new boy on the team and Kyle being accused of murdering a woman who was stalking him.

You really can imagine that the world of the soccer player is not that far removed from this show, you’ve only got to look at the recent shenanigans involving Posh and Becks to see that.

Watched in the right way Footballer’s Wives is supremely entertaining stuff, although for some strange reason the cast have a habit of adding the word yeh to the end of their sentences as in Leave it out Tanya, yeh. Don’t miss it!

Extras: How to be a footballers wife, interesting behind the scenes feature following Zoe Lucker around the set for a morning introducing us to the costume guys and the caterers, spending time in the make up chair, this is a good glimpse of parts of the process we never get to see.

A 20 minute feature called Becoming a footballers wife – make up designer Alan runs up through a footballers wives make up on a girl called Erin (who already looks like a footballers wife anyway)

Numerous outtakes showing the cast struggling with their lines. Finally there is a fantastic trailer showing all the choice bits of season two set to The Cardigan’s classic My Favourite Game.