Citations:
2004 Niamh Bugler ic Wales (June 24) “Telly gets a sporting makeover”: She’s got plenty of time to become as polished, pretty and vacant as the WAGs (wives and girlfriends) of the rest of the England squad - why make her clone up any faster than she needs to? 2004 Lousie France Guardian (U.K.) (Oct. 3) “Sucess isn’t all it’s cracked up to be”: Pictures of the wives and girlfriends (or Wags as the FA’s acronym calls them) of the Euro 2004 England team, or of the wives and girlfriends of the 1999 US Ryder Cup team, for instance, show a classic feminine look where every woman is tanned, polished, thin.…She is not allowed to complain or to step out of line. If she does—such as Posh Spice’s decision not to move to Madrid—she’s criticised or ostracised (witness the glee when Mrs Beckham missed the boat on booking into the same hotel as the other Wags in Portugal because it was full).