Tag Archives: football

Polka Dots: Not Just for Girls

January 9, 2013 – 8:13 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in commentary | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

Sporno Pop Promo — ‘Don’t Deny Your Heart’

“We’ve waited years for this!” A kind of soccer version of this famously spornographic ad campaign for rugger buggery from a few years back: Tip: Tim  

November 29, 2012 – 2:44 pm | By Mark Simpson | Posted in music, sporno | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Sporno

Mark Simpson on how sport and porn got into bed with one another — while D&G and Mr Armani took pictures.… (Out magazine, May 2006; expanded for The V&A’s ‘Fashion V Sport’ catalogue, June 2008.) You might think that it was Italy’s greater ball skills, or stamina, or team spirit that won them the 2006 football …

April 17, 2010 – 3:18 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in sporno | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (43)

America — meet David Beckham

(The Guardian, 13 July, 2007) America, meet David Beckham. America, meet The Metrosexual. You’re going to be seeing even more of both. As most of the world already knows, today Becks is proudly ‘unveiled’ by LA Galaxy on their home turf. Brand Becks, the ultimate metrosexual who transformed himself from a talented professional soccer-player with a cute …

July 13, 2007 – 10:59 am | By Mark Simpson | Posted in celebrity, metrosexual | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (4)