England's new football WAGs are swapping shopping for swotting

Forget the garish fashions and fake tans – the new generation of football WAGs are a far more cerebral group, with six of the current girlfriends and wives boasting university degrees. The term 'WAGs' was coined during that tournament when the antics of partners led by David Beckham's wife Victoria, Frank Lampard's girlfriend at the time Elen Rivas and manager Sven-Goran Eriksson's then-partner Nancy Dell'Olio made more headlines than the team. Fern Hawkins, 27, fiancee of defender Harry Maguire, has a degree in physiotherapy from Sheffield University Illustrating the shift, the wife of current England captain Harry Kane is Katie Goodland, a 27-year-old mother-of-three with a degree in sports science. Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford's fiancee Megan Davison, 25, has a 2:1 in childhood studies from Sunderland University, while Raheem Sterling's girlfriend Paige Milian, 25, has an accountancy qualification and runs her own property empire. Goalkeeper Jordan Pickford's fiancee Megan Davison, 25, has a 2:1 in childhood studies from Sunderland University, while Raheem Sterling's girlfriend Paige Milian, 25, has an accountancy qualification and runs her own property empire She already works with prisoners at HMP Coldingley in Surrey, giving inmates legal advice.