I am so excited about the current Women’s World Cup that I can hardly think straight, dear readers, but I have been able to go on holiday brimming with excitement, and whilst on my travels I have bumped into the cream of UK footballers – all of who also seem to be celebrating their long and hard seasons with a little jauntette into the sunshine.
It seems only fair, therefore, that I focus on the news and holiday snaps of some of our nation’s finest players in my column this week. Enjoy, sweeties, and try not to mourn too hard on the crashing out of England’s U21 side earlier this month. At least now those boys can enjoy and extended summer holiday too…
1. Lampard & Bleakley
Ever a style favourite (for all the wrong reasons) Frank ‘Super Goals’ Lampard scored a cracker while on holiday in L.A earlier this month. The Chelsea ace has proposed to his Daybreak-presenting girlfriend while on their jollies, and she accepted his offer…
It seems only fair, therefore, that I focus on the news and holiday snaps of some of our nation’s finest players in my column this week. Enjoy, sweeties, and try not to mourn too hard on the crashing out of England’s U21 side earlier this month. At least now those boys can enjoy and extended summer holiday too…
1. Lampard & Bleakley
Ever a style favourite (for all the wrong reasons) Frank ‘Super Goals’ Lampard scored a cracker while on holiday in L.A earlier this month. The Chelsea ace has proposed to his Daybreak-presenting girlfriend while on their jollies, and she accepted his offer…
The happy couple and her MASSIVE rock.
The England midfielder splashed out a mere £120,000 on the engagement ring for Miss Bleakley (a drop in the ocean for a man who reportedly earns £151,000 a week), and proposed to her after a beachside lunch – causing Christine to cry for 10 minutes. With joy, Dr Sparkles would hope.
Of course, this isn’t the first time that Frank has been engaged as he has two children with ex-fiancé (and - at time of publication at least - current Ms Peter Andre) Elen Rivas. Spanish model Elen was seen looking none-too-pleased about Conservative Party advocate Lampard’s engagement soon after the news broke…
Of course, this isn’t the first time that Frank has been engaged as he has two children with ex-fiancé (and - at time of publication at least - current Ms Peter Andre) Elen Rivas. Spanish model Elen was seen looking none-too-pleased about Conservative Party advocate Lampard’s engagement soon after the news broke…
Dr Sparkles loves a wedding, but with a guest list that is likely to include Bleakley’s colleagues: cow-breast-feeding media junkie Kate Garraway and always-bored Adrian Chiles as well as Lampard’s Ayia Napa camcorder chums Rio Ferdinand and Kieron Dyer she might give it a miss. But huge congrats to the happy couple nonetheless!
2. Crouch & Crouch
They say that a picture is worth one thousand words, and that seems applicable for (blind) housewives favourite, Mr Peter Crouch, as he holds his baby daughter on a pre-wedding holiday with his family in Sardinia.
2. Crouch & Crouch
They say that a picture is worth one thousand words, and that seems applicable for (blind) housewives favourite, Mr Peter Crouch, as he holds his baby daughter on a pre-wedding holiday with his family in Sardinia.
Nothing like a pasty man holding a baby
In an almost-exact copy of the popular old Athena poster, Spurs striker Crouch cradles his baby daughter Sophia in his arms as he keeps his sensitive skin out of the sunshine. Beautiful.
Dr Sparkles likes a man who isn’t afraid to show off his softer side, although thinks that maybe a pink buggy is pushing it a bit. That said, the Spanish have nicknamed him Pantera Rosa (the Pink Panther), so maybe it is rather fitting. However, the less said about those swimming trunks the better... Good luck to Peter and Abbey with their upcoming wedding and congrats again on the birth of their gorgeous (if she takes after her mother) daughter…
3. Hart & Rooney
In a completely different turn of events we have this...
Dr Sparkles likes a man who isn’t afraid to show off his softer side, although thinks that maybe a pink buggy is pushing it a bit. That said, the Spanish have nicknamed him Pantera Rosa (the Pink Panther), so maybe it is rather fitting. However, the less said about those swimming trunks the better... Good luck to Peter and Abbey with their upcoming wedding and congrats again on the birth of their gorgeous (if she takes after her mother) daughter…
3. Hart & Rooney
In a completely different turn of events we have this...
Ride me!
Who would have thought that Manchester City goalie Joe Hart would have so much fun frolicking in the sea, let alone with a Rooney on his back?
Flower-shorted Hart put aside any club rivalry with England teammate Wayne Rooney as they holidayed together (along with Rooney’s wife and young son) in Barbados earlier this month. The pair shared piggy-back rides and even entertained onlookers with a bit of a kick-about at the shore side.
Hat-wearing Rooney, who brazenly announced on twitter that he had recently had a hair transplant, had a great time playing in the surf with his mate and, later on, his son.
Dr Sparkles is pleased that the recent media future surrounding Rooney and his apparent off-the-pitch habits has died down to this bromance action, which has also allowed him some quality bonding time with his son. Marvellous stuff!
4. Hart & Barry
There is nothing that Dr Sparkles likes more between manly footballing men than a good bromance. Not the Lampard-Ferdinand-Dyer kind (check Google for that dear readers if you still have no idea what I’m implying), but the more traditional, close bond friendship that occurs only a few times in a mans life.
And thus, witness Bromance Exhibit A of the most beautiful bromance in the history of Premiership football…
Flower-shorted Hart put aside any club rivalry with England teammate Wayne Rooney as they holidayed together (along with Rooney’s wife and young son) in Barbados earlier this month. The pair shared piggy-back rides and even entertained onlookers with a bit of a kick-about at the shore side.
Hat-wearing Rooney, who brazenly announced on twitter that he had recently had a hair transplant, had a great time playing in the surf with his mate and, later on, his son.
Dr Sparkles is pleased that the recent media future surrounding Rooney and his apparent off-the-pitch habits has died down to this bromance action, which has also allowed him some quality bonding time with his son. Marvellous stuff!
4. Hart & Barry
There is nothing that Dr Sparkles likes more between manly footballing men than a good bromance. Not the Lampard-Ferdinand-Dyer kind (check Google for that dear readers if you still have no idea what I’m implying), but the more traditional, close bond friendship that occurs only a few times in a mans life.
And thus, witness Bromance Exhibit A of the most beautiful bromance in the history of Premiership football…
Rub me!
That’s right, gentle readers; your eyes do not deceive you. This is Man City goalie and ex-Shrewsbury town legend Charles Joseph John Hart and midfielder team mate Gareth Barry. Together. On sun loungers. Sharing a tender sun-creaming moment.
Having warmed up his bromance muscles with Rooney on the afore-mentioned Barbados beach, Hart decided to go one step further in the bromance stakes as he and Hastings-born Barry popped off for a bit of sunshine in Las Vegas.
But it wasn’t all just fun in the sun as Bromance Exhibit B illustrates
Having warmed up his bromance muscles with Rooney on the afore-mentioned Barbados beach, Hart decided to go one step further in the bromance stakes as he and Hastings-born Barry popped off for a bit of sunshine in Las Vegas.
But it wasn’t all just fun in the sun as Bromance Exhibit B illustrates
It’s this big. But you know that anyway, so don’t look so surprised, bro…
That’s right, married father-of-two Barry and bachelor Hart continued on with their bromance holiday as they partied into the wee hours of the morning at some of the hottest nightspots in Vegas. And doesn’t it look like they had a good time?
Dr Sparkles loves a good bromance story – be it Brokeback Mountain or The Hangover – and is pleased to see team mates so comfortable together and having so much fun. If team bonding is like this then Manchester City are bound to finish higher than third place in the league next season.
Dr Sparkles loves a good bromance story – be it Brokeback Mountain or The Hangover – and is pleased to see team mates so comfortable together and having so much fun. If team bonding is like this then Manchester City are bound to finish higher than third place in the league next season.
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