Footballers' Wives Footballers' Wives Footballers' Wives (stylised as footballers wive$) is a British television drama surrounding the fictional Premier League football club Earls Park F.C., its players, and their wives. It was broadcast on the ITV network from 8 January 2002 to 14 April 2006. The show initially focuses on three very different couples, but from the third series onward it revolves around a complex love triangle between Tanya Turner (Zöe Lucker), Amber Gates (Laila Rouass), and Conrad Gates (Ben Price). The show is centred on the fictional Earls Park Football Club (nicknamed "Sparks"). The series, based on the book, "Footballers' Wives
Laila Robins Performer, Non-Resident Production for "Mrs. Klein", and the Drama League Award. Laila Robins Laila Robins (born March 14, 1959) is an American stage, film and television actress. She has appeared in films including "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" (1987), "Live Nude Girls" (1995), "True Crime" (1999), "She's Lost Control" (2014), and "Eye in the Sky" (2015). Her television credits include regular roles on "Gabriel's Fire", "Homeland", and "Murder in the First". Robins was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of Latvian American parents Brigita (née Švarcs) and Jānis, whose surname was originally spelled Robiņš. Her father was a research chemist.