Dean is
dropped from the first team and Paskia Rose (despite Tracie buying her a
Heat subscription and taking her to Cricket)is only interested in the
rules and skills of the beautiful game - she wants to follow in her
father's footsteps rather than her mother's stiletto-clad ones.
What's a WAG to do? Armed only with her Smythson notebook and Tiffany
pen, Tracie sets out to write the definitive rulebook on life as a WAG,
in a one-woman effort to banish inappropriate WAG conduct from the
terraces, wine bars and tanning salons of the country... Containing such
sage advice as '99.4% of your nutrition should come from Bacardi
Breezers' and mantras for life such as 'WAGS can be orange, they can be
caramel, but they CANNOT be white', Tracie soon develops a cult
following.
Surely it's only a matter of time before Queen of the WAGS, Victoria
Beckham (Amen!), wants to be her new best friend?"
Alison Kervin
Our Review:
An amusing tale of how to be the ultimate wag, Tracie Martin, self proclaimed
queen of the wags at Luton Town tells of how she stalks Posh, (the true queen of
the wags), advises wannabe wags on how to behave appropriately (inappropriately
would be a better description), and in the process becomes a star in her own
right. Witty, funny and if you needed to compare it with Bridget Jones it would
be "Bridget in a silver thong, unashamedly flashing her bits"! Read it and
perhaps you'll bag yourself a footballer too.
Score : 8.5/10
The Reader :)
Alison Kervin's bio :Alison has successfully made her mark in the traditionally
testosterone-fuelled industry of sports journalism. She is an
award-winning writer, biographer and journalist, short-listed for the
2004 and 2005 Interviewer of the Year for her work on The Times (where she was a Chief Sports feature Writer) and the
Sunday Times. She was also Woman of Achievement in Cosmopolitan magazine
and won Feature Writer of the Year, Interviewer of the Year and Magazine
Editor of the Year in the IPC magazine awards.
She is currently a
freelance writer and journalist, writing for the Sunday Times, Radio
Times and Hello.
In the past, she has written short stories, columns and
interviews for publications as diverse as The Spectator, New Statesman,
Company, Woman's Own, Vogue, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald,
That's Life, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday, Country: Life and Tatler.
Alison has written five highly acclaimed books - Denise Lewis: Personal
Best, Jason Leonard: The Autobiography, Sports Writing, the Unofficial
Guide to the Rugby World Cup and Clive Woodward: the biography. Her
sixth book 30 Bullies - a history of the World Cups, was published in
September by Simon & Schuster. Her first novel The Wag's Diary will be
published by Avon, an imprint of Harper Collins, in October 2007, with
the follow-up book in June 2008. She has also ghost-written a number of
columns for The Times, including that of Jonny Wilkinson as he rose to
glory in the 2003 World Cup.
Is it just me, or she really loves sport? :)
