The FA is investigating a goal celebration by Premier League players that is said to promote ‘degrading’ sex videos shared on social media.
Sam Clucas was seen mimicking the spying symbol attached to the ‘Simply LoveLeh Brotherhood’ viral videos while the 27-year-old played for Swansea against Arsenal on Tuesday.
Football bosses are looking into the promotion of the site, whose clips are circulated on WhatsApp and shared on Facebook and Twitter.
Sam Clucas of Swansea City was captured making the gesture in Tuesday’s game against Arsenal
Southampton teammates Charlie Austin and Jack Stevens were spotted mimicking the logo on the pitch in December
In promotions on the social media giants, the videos are described in a Yorkshire accent using stock catchphrases, reports The Sun.
A Premier League spokesman says it does not want ‘offensive material’ being referenced at all on the pitch.
The website, set up around Merseyside, claims its clips are provided by ‘Fred from Sheffield’
Swansea City claims Clucas was not ‘fully aware’ of the group’s ‘pornographic sections’ and did not set out to offend.
The same gesture was made by Southampton’s Charlie Austin, 28, and teammate Jack Stevens, 24, in December.
Nuneaton Town’s Ashley Chambers, 27, has also been photographed performing the sign as has the boxer Kell Brook.
Recordings surfaced of snooker legend Jimmy White mimicking the site’s promotions by saying its catchprhases.
The website was set up by two men from the Merseyside area or nearby and the clips have gained a cult following of 70,000 subscribers on social media.
Boxer Kell Brook, left, and Nuneaton Town’s Ashley Chambers, right, have also been snapped making the gesture
In the last 18 months 31 videos have been uploaded and more are coming on a weekly basis.
The videos combine hardcore porn with comedic footage and the humorous Yorkshire voiceover.
Maria Caulfield MP, the Tory vice-chairman for women, said performing the gesture on the field ‘fuels the increasing image that male footballers have little respect for women’.
The Merseyside men who created the site claim the content is all provided by ‘Fred from Sheffield’.