Almost two decades have passed since Victoria Beckham took her seat at the Max-Morlock-Stadion in Nuremberg during the 2006 World Cup, wearing a tiny pair of white shorts and a red tank top that loudly proclaimed, “England rocks”. On that day, arguably, they did (England beat Trinidad and Tobago two-nil), but when the team crashed out of the tournament in the quarter-finals two weeks later, some fans laid the blame at the door of the glamorous other halves who had hauled their full-to-bursting Birkins all the way to Baden-Baden. The inevitable tabloid inquest marked the beginning of the end of the era – a wild period in British culture that had reached fever pitch that summer – and the years since have been comparatively quiet on the wilfully ostentatious spectator style front.
This gradual retreat from a lifestyle – and a wardrobe – designed to secure headlines and spreads no doubt came as a relief to pundits...
perhaps even to players. But for anyone who found and co’s games of luxury logo oneupmanship more fun to watch than much of what happened on the pitch, the world of sport was undeniably worse off without the WAG. Enter Morgan Riddle, the 26-year-old girlfriend of US tennis star Taylor Fritz, who has been causing something of a stir over at SW19 this summer with her sassy social media presence and carefully curated of Barbie references, Princess of Wales-inspired pleats and, yes, arch slogans.
“It says ‘kiss my ace’,” she says proudly, turning he.
