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
Brian Wilde major television success was in 1970 as refuse depot manager "Bloody Delilah" in the ITV sitcom "The Dustbinmen". He showed his sinister side as the mischievous magician Mr Peacock in the children's drama series "Ace of Wands" between 1970 and 1972. That year he starred as a murderer in "The Uninvited", an episode of the BBC's supernatural thriller series "Out of the Unknown". Also in 1971, in the television drama "Elizabeth R", Wilde played the efficient, merciless 'rackmaster' Richard Topcliffe, who was charged with the torture of prisoners in the Tower of London. He played a character in the 1970s