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Webb married former England footballer Neil Webb, and the couple had two children Luke and Josh, who today are both young professional footballers.^[2] Webb's father was a professional footballer, and she has been a fan since childhood.^[3] She was a university student when she and Neil met.^[3] They married when she was 21.^[3]

Career

Webb, who holds a first-class honours degree in English and History, trained as a journalist before her marriage and resumed that career with the local Nottingham Evening Post, working as an occasional sports writer. She was forced to turn down a job as a radio broadcaster in Nottingham when Neil Webb moved form Nottingham Forest to Manchester United.^[6] She later moved to TV presenting.^[4]^[5] She worked as an on-air journalist for Standing Room Only (TV series), then for BBC World Service Television.^[4]

This professional visibility led to interviews about her life as a footballer's wife, and, eventually, led her to write the book Footballers' Wives Tell Their Tales in 1998,^[6] the year she and Neil split up.^[7]

Her Footballers' Wives looked at the reality of being a modern footballer's wife.^[8]^[9] Webb interviewed 14 of her fellow footballer's wives for her 1998 book, painting what The Daily Telegraph called "a dismal picture of chronic insecurity, upheaval, boredom and loneliness."^[10]

The book was the basis for a TV series Footballers' Wives, a series that portrayed the lives of footballers and their families in the years when they became "like pop stars", receiving a level of coverage that the Scotsman described as "even sillier" than fan enthusiasm, as well as offers of sex and a lack of privacy.^[5]

References

1. ^{{cite news|last1=Ryan|first1=Andrew|title=Tune in, turn on and enjoy the trip|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/383515529/fulltext/EB2BF43123C44D12PQ/2?accountid=10226|accessdate=2 August 2016|work=The Globe and Mail|date=4 August 2006|subscription=yes}}
2. ^{{cite news|last=Bosley|first=Sarah|title=FA Cup winners medal goes under the hammer|url=http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=10764|work=Newbury Today|date=13 August 2009}}
3. ^¹²{{cite news|last1=Bernard|first1=Peter|title=A game of two halves on and off the pitch|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/318060136/fulltext/23BFAB5D32A04D1BPQ/9?accountid=10226|accessdate=8 August 2016|publisher=The Times of London|date=29 January 1996}}
4. ^¹²{{cite news|last1=Redding|first1=Mark|title=Webbs crossed As Neil Webb turns out in the twilight world of non-League football, his wife is presenting a new radio show.|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/245085961/fulltext/23BFAB5D32A04D1BPQ/8?accountid=10226|accessdate=8 August 2016|work=The Guardian|date=6 December 1996}}
5. ^¹{{cite web|title=Off the ball|last1=Smith|first1=Aidan|url=http://living.scotsman.com/features/Off-the-ball.2291950.jp|work=The Scotsman|date=7 January 2002|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725034827/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-12975417.html|archivedate=25 July 2018|deadurl=yes}}
6. ^{{cite news|title=Footballers' wives - the shocking truth|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/186913.stm|work=BBC News Online|date=5 October 1998}}
7. ^{{cite news|last=Kimmage|first=Paul|title=The Big Interview: Neil Webb|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/article396507.ece|work=Times Online|date=28 November 2004}}
8. ^{{cite news|last1=Mott|first1=Sue|title=How the inside halves survive (Book review)|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/326496200/fulltext/23BFAB5D32A04D1BPQ/5?accountid=10226|accessdate=8 August 2016|work=Scotland on Sunday|date=27 September 1998}}
9. ^{{cite news|last1=Pizzichini|first1=Lilian|title=Paperback Roundup (short book review)|url=http://search.proquest.com/news/docview/312743088/fulltext/EB2BF43123C44D12PQ/3?accountid=10226|accessdate=2 August 2016|work=The Independent|date=25 October 1998}}
10. ^{{cite news|title=The Home Team|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3571845/The-home-team.html|accessdate=2 August 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=13 January 2002}}

Personal life

Career

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