BEHIND THE SCENES

Josie Copson

“The trickiest thing about this piece was that this world – of footballers and the partners who left them behind – is shrouded in secrecy (ironic given how public a lot of the scandals that surround them are). Getting the women to talk involved a complicated sequence of emails, phone calls and messages, with them having to check what they said with lawyers. Once they did let me in though, boy, did they have a lot to say.”