As the influx of money into the English premier league football grew so did the riches of the footballers and their WAGS. Whereas they used stay at home, all of a sudden they had their own league that drew as much media attention as the beautiful game. Here is the first-ever history of their rivalries, catfights and gossip between and about the women; from the first stirrings of the phenomenon 1960s after the winning of the 1966 FIFA Cup to the WAGs' first roaring entry on to the front pages on their own steam, to today where they are an institution with winners and losers as recognisable as FIFA itself.