Footballers Wive$: Series 02  (2003)

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Footballers Wive$: Series 02

Season Two of the ribald British series Footballers' Wives begins some five months after the end of Season One, rapidly tying up loose story ends to make way for even more outrageous plot complications. After the rescue of his kidnapped daughter Holly, Ian Walmsley (Nathan Constance), a player on the Earls Park Sparks football team, finally realizes there is something more important in his life than sports--but how will he and his wife Donna (Katharine Monaghan) be able to reimburse his Italian teammate Sal (Daniel Schutzmann), who has ponied up the ransom money? Well, Donna at least has a solution: She goes to bed with Sal, sending Ian into an alcoholic tailspin when he finds out. Meanwhile, team member Kyle (Gary Lucy) and his ex-topless model bride Chardonnay (Susie Amy) are happily raising Paddy, the child borne by Kyle's mom Jackie (Gillian Taylforth) after her affair with Jordan (Cristian Solimero), the team-captain husband of bed-hopping, coke-snorting Tanya (Zoe Lucker). And speaking of Tanya, she has managed to wriggle out of being prosecuted for attempting to murder team owner Frank (John Forgeham) by turning the tables and insisting that Frank tried to rape her. Later in the season Tanya sleeps with her husband's bisexual agent Hazel (Alison Newman), and as a result of a drug bust is forced to do community service under the baleful eye of Frank's sadistic nurse Janette Dunkley (Julie LeGrand), who is armed with the knowledge that Tanya had tried to kill Frank while he was in a coma. Also: After a brief fling with Donna, Sal takes up with a neurotic girl named Freddie (Jessica Brooks), who prompts an arm-wrestling match between Sal and Jason--in which the latter's arm catches fire! And while Donna's ex Ian plunges deeper and deeper into the doldrums, the Sparks' coach Stefan(Philip Bretherton) replaces him with teenaged hotshot Darius (Peter Ash), who finds himself next on Tanya's "sack list." The season ends with Frank trying to purge his life of the troublesome Tanya, who makes a bloody spectacle of herself during the ceremony in which she was supposed to renew her marital vows with Jason. Suddenly, a mysterious stroke of fate succeeds in bumping off two of the series' main characters in one fell swoop! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide