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Footballers' Wives 'gayer' than Sex and the City

 
 
Quireboy
17:17 / 23.02.03
I don't know how many of you have caught any of Footballers Wives - and from the Buffy and Angel threads here maybe not many - but it really has to be one of the queerest programmes on TV.

In last Thursday's episode, Jason (the arrogant cock of the team) took the piss out of one of the new players, called Darius, (who he doesn't know has shagged his bitch of a wife, Tanya) and ended up putting him over his knee, pulling down his shorts and spanking him in front of the rest of the team in the locker room. Now someone tell me this isn't scripted by gay men cos that could have come straight out of a porno! It wouldn't have been a surprise if they'd all circled jerked over the lad! The scriptwiriters must read Julie Birchill's columns in the Weekend Guardian.

On top of that you've got a hermaphrodite baby - and Jason (the father) is supposed to discover its mother (Jackie) is his mother! And Tanya's lines are brilliant: "If you go near my husband again you'll need more than Botox to sort it out!"

It's total trash TV and makes an interesting comparison to all the gossip surrounding players like Beckham, Veron and Freddy Lumbjerg. Which I know from Popbitch rather than from being a fan of the game - bloody boring.

Then again what else do you expect from the makers of Bad Girls aka Bad Scripts - the Prisoner Cell Block H of the 90s with firmer tits.
 
 
yawn - thing's buddy
12:30 / 24.02.03
what I want to know is whether sol campbell is humping lennox lewis.

I was shocked to hear this rumour casually passed around the back of a cab I shared with some lady friends just the other day.

As for Wives, I'm sure Ganesh was a fan of the first series. I remember him discussing it round these here parts.
 
 
Quireboy
15:48 / 24.02.03
I have it on good authority that Sol is in fact:

1. straight

2. dull

3. a disappointing shag despite his obvious physical attributes.
 
 
suds
17:54 / 24.02.03
dudes, whats so wrong with sex in the city? i have box sets (yes, plural!) of the show & i watch it all the time.
btw, about the whole hermaphrodite baby thing, i think it's good they put it in because i studied this at rutgers college & was surprised at how many people are affected by this. the acting is ace! am i super lame?
 
 
Quireboy
19:10 / 24.02.03
Nothing is that wrong with Sex and the City - well unless you look beyond the humour and realise how superficial the women are - although the latest series has been dreary.
 
 
Brigade du jour
21:01 / 24.02.03
If Footballers' Wives is, as you suggest, drenched in homoerotic lust then I would suggest it's very much from the Top Gun school.

Actually, it's quite possibly all three of the descriptions in the Topic Abstract.
 
 
Quireboy
22:25 / 24.02.03
I don't think so - Top Gun may have had homoerotic undertones but it wasn't screamingly camp.
 
 
Brigade du jour
01:16 / 25.02.03
Excellent point, Spike (if I may call you that). Screaming campness is just sooo trendy. I must admit I quite like it, though. Hee hee!
 
  
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