Just imagine the scene. Him all there, with his wife. I mean you expect that. Well you’d need that. That is what is known as your actual package, isn’t. Your brand.
He’s like Cliff Richard in many ways. Been on the same journey. ‘Course everyone’s on a journey nowdays. Unless you’re trying to get from Colchester to Liverpool Street on a Sunday in which case you’re on a replacement bus next to some bloke eating an egg sandwich.
But like Cliff he was a much raved about star. Raved about to an excessive extent in some eyes, but then his popularity sort of leveled out in this country. We don’t like our celebs ‘up there’ for too long. We like to keep ’em on their toes. No matter how big you might think you are, disaster is but an expose in the News Of The Screws away.
So like Cliff, his fame mellowed over here as it increased over there. Like when Cliff was discovered, so to speak in Japan around about the same time released Carrie.
But now it looks like he’s making a return. You know, like Cliff did. We hadn’t seen sight nor sound him for what seemed like decades and then one day at CentreCourt, a spot of rain and a BBC sound engineer with a live mic and one acapella blast of Summer Holiday and suddenly – a legend is reborn.
And our man is experiencing a similar rejuvenation. Courtesy of the recent and failed World Cup bid.
That gormless tube Capello basically retired him or as good as tried to when making smalltalk on his way to a free lunch. But what the insolent Italian didn’t factor into his casual jibe was that the boy Beckham still had some fuel in the tank. That and most of the new generation of footballers were pretty rubbish, truth be told.
So once we negotiate the frankly confusing timings of the close of the MLS season and his loan deals and what have you, it transpires that David Beckham maybe gracing the Premiership. A swansong, if you like.
West Ham are purported to have declared an interest. No surprise there, at this stage Gold & Sullivan are submitting applications to X Factor on behalf of their players in the vain hope that something might be salvaged before the inevitable winding up order lands on their mat.
But word is that Beckham could indulge Spurs with a season. That’s the word. What say you?
Is an explosion of cheese keeping posts from view again?
Just say no to Beckham-themed publicity stunts. He can still hold his own on the pitch, but the media circus is way too divisive and disruptive.
You think Darren Bent is bad for having sides cater to his every whim, David Most Overrated Player Of All Time Beckham is infinitely worse
The only positive about the WC failure is that maybe now the powers that be will stop using him!
On a side note, Harry I used to love your blog fella, back when you were straight up and just heavily opinionated with a healthy level of humour spattered about the place. The latest version HarryHotspur 2.1 seems to make excessive use of parables and riddles, making my head hurt chap. while a Good product, it just needs some tweaking adjustments. Windows Vista would be a great role model for you.
I thought Windows Vista was hated by everyone?
– Oh, I get you.
The key was that Windows improved when they listened to the people.
Im Smileyspud, and HarryHotspur 7 was my idea
Parables, riddles and big words. Sounds like a game show for really irritating old people.
Where’s Peter Ridsdale when you need him?
I can get on here briefly!!
Forget him putting on the Spurs shirt and actually playing.
Pull on that shirt Becks and sell 1000’s of shirts in the far east. Pull on the shirt and have Automony and Ivestec wetting themselves at the picture opportunities of God actually wearing a shirt with their name on it! Roll him out at corporate events. They will pay for his wages alone for that. We wouldn’t need to pay a penny.
Cliff isn’t in that bracket….