Remember 2006? A time long before Covid-19, Netflix and Game of Thrones when Leona Lewis won The X Factor and Big Brother was still on Channel 4. That summer saw the whole nation pin their homes on the England football team once again. Forty years after their historic World Cup win on home turf, the Three Lions, under the leadership of Sven Goran Eriksson, headed to Germany for the 2006 tournament.
After winning their group, with two wins and a draw, as we always do, supporters dreamt that football just might have been coming home, only for us to crash out yet again on penalties, this time to Portugal in the quarter finals. READ MORE: The most 'unexpected' places in Newcastle you can watch Euro 2024 games Get all the latest TV and showbiz news and gossip from Chronicle Live with our free newsletter And, while the players on the pitch certainly grabbed their share of headlines, so did their significant others, with the England WAGS, whether in the stands or out on the town in Baden-Baden, attracting plenty of attention. From racking up huge bar and hotel bills to singing and dancing on tables and even a drug scandal, it is widely believed that the 2006 WAGs' behaviour was the reason behind partners being completely banned from the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
But, as England now go for glory in the first major tournament in Germany since Baden Baden, we look at just what happened to the WAGs who caused such a stir. As wife of captain David Beckham, Victoria was the Queen Be.
