The Wag's Diary

25-09-2007 12:41

Tracie Martin is Luton Town's longest-serving WAG. For 12 years, team captain husband Dean has kept her in acrylic nails, UGG boots and Juicy Couture.But with the start of the football season looming, there's a new breed of WAGS at LTFC who aren't quite playing by the rules.Standards are slipping and Wagdom is in crisis! To add insult to injury, Tracie's daughter Paskia-Rose is more interested in the offside rule than shopping at Cricket. What is a WAG to do?Tracie decides to end this improper conduct by writing the ultimate guide to life for wannabe WAGS. Overnight, she finds herself propelled into the limelight, achieving the A-list status she has craved for so long.From Old Trafford to Baden-Baden, she's the talk of the town. But will fame and fortune bring Tracie more than she bargains for?

Alison Kervin 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 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 was formerly the Chief Sports Feature Writer of The Times newspaper where she wrote a weekly interview, The Kervin Interview - for three years, featuring stars ranging from Nick Faldo and Michael Owen to Prince Edward and Sean Connery. She even managed to interview Catherine Zeta-Jones by accosting her in the ladies toilets at a sports event in Monte Carlo.

Before working as a newspaper and magazine interviewer, Alison was the Times’ rugby editor for two years, and prior to that she was editor of Rugby World, the biggest-selling rugby magazine in the world.

Alison worked for the Rugby Football Union as the public relations manager of the England team, was the first woman presenter on Rugby Special and the first woman to referee at Twickenham.

She also holds coaching qualifications in 10 sports, and 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.