TELEVISION: TV's fashion on and off sports field

The World Cup has given Lin Ferguson - and Colombian goalkeeper Faryd Mondragon - something to cheer about.

I'm a late comer to the game of football but it's got me.

The Fifa World Cup highlights package at 4.55pm each day on TV One is great.

Being a non sporty spice person I have never leapt about with enthusiasm over a game of ball.

But this round ball game has captured me with its theatrical histrionics playing out again and again.

From munching another player's shoulder to threatening to rid the world of a New Zealand referee who supposedly made the wrong call, to dropping to their knees and raising fervent prayers to the Lord ... this is serious, often soapbox, entertainment.

I have been loving the melodrama from the crowd in full emotional flow, to the players - each one plucked, shaved, spruced-up (they probably even iron their socks) and racing about in a cloud of spicy fragrance mingling with the sweat.

Then there's the array of colourful footwear; pink shoes are okay - no crap blokey stuff here.

Some of these chaps are like fashion plates twisting and curving across the field, with fancy footwork, a few great head dingers, and every goal scored is a feast for the team and the crowd.

Scoring a goal is the signal to dance, sing, hug, slap kisses on each other's necks, faces, arms, wherever ... and then launch into a huge group hug which becomes a wriggling tower of arms and legs.

I have watched the odd important game of rugger and I wonder if our rugby chaps have been schooled in keeping an unemotional stance, try or no try. It's as though they've been told 'we'll have none of that kissing hugging malarkey' and 'no leaping about like a poofter eh?'

Quick word here about a very colourful gay chap - Gok.

Love Gok's Fashion Fix TV3 Saturday 2pm. He preaches that women should make the most of all their assets (large or small). From his fabulous makeovers of everyday, often very ordinary women into gorgeous but not grotesque, femmes of style he's a fashion genius.

But the highlight is the face-off on the catwalk between a range of designer wear and Gok's buys from the High Street. This clever fashionista can transform high street fashion into Aunty Gok's designer gear with the wow factor.

He plays a game all of his own, with skill and sharp vision from left field creating fashion-scoring excitement in every episode.