The comic two-parter is interspersed with fictional footage of the wives WhatsApping their respective PR agents from inside their sleek footballer mansions: in the bath, watering their plants, sunning themselves on holiday. But the bulk takes place inside the courtroom and while Sherbourne’s performance steals the show within the show, Tomlinson proves a worthy rival. “What you believe, Mrs Rooney, isn’t the same as what’s actually going to happen… You might believe that Derby County’s going to win the premiership, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to, does it?” he asks Rooney in one of several witty dressing-downs.
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