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?
David Beckham has been one of this country’s best players and best ambassadors for football and is a genuine star quality individual. Supposedly thick, he has seldom if ever put a foot wrong on numerous chat shows, interviews and articles despite supposedly smarter pundits trying their best to trip him up for the sensational scoop.
He’s capatined his country and played for the big ‘M’s: Manchester, Madrid and Milan. He has always worked hard at his game, stays fit, doesn’t get rollicking at night clubs, smoke big cigars, or shag hookers (at least not proven), or set a bad example for the nations or indeed the world’s kids. He’s passionate about England and has to my recall, always given of his best. He is an English role model all England should be proud of.
He is also 35, which puts him 2 years past his use-by date for a player in his position in the EPL. If he wants to keep playing I think he should do so where he is at the relatively more comfortable pace of MLS, or think about retiring.
A return to EPL will I think tarnish a career few Englishmen have ever achieved and could potentially embarrass what to all appearances suggest is a really decent bloke.
except when he wears a sarong over his mankini.otherwise spot on
Well said.
Beckham believes that the England team is there for his benfit; to see him sitting on the bench in the WC, was embarrassing as it was bizarre! And I don’t care if his wife’s got bigger tits, or smaller ones, nor what colour or style her f***ing hair is!
He could teach Lennon poise.
nuh uh. poise don’t go well with azza’s eyebrows.
Lennon already has the buffalo stance. Aight!!!
Beckham? Obviously yes. I can hardly believe there are people here that question it for a second.
VDV comes to town and with him he brought an attitude that you can feel in every match he plays in. You can see how his winner attitude is starting to affect the other players. Beckham is dripping in that winners attitude, an attitude he has cultivated from his years of training himself, pushing himself and becoming the man who helped Man U win the CL, the Prem and the FA cup in the same year, who convinced a stern, stubborn iron man of a manager to eat his words and reselect him and the man who dragged England to the World Cup finals singlehandedly.
The inspiration this boy would bring to the team would be immense. He always has the last laugh on his doubters. And can you imagine, 80th minute chasing a win – Redknapp turning to see Crouch and Beckham on the bench.
Plus – Beckhams last top flight European football season, a year ending in 1, a cup final at Wembley.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. YES YSEESYEYSYESYESYESYSE Please Mr. Beckham
Does anyone really believe that in this day and age, the argument that Beckham’s wages would be paid back by shirt sales is valid and/or worthwhile?
Maybe for some club in the far-east, or someone like West Ham, but it’s hardly box-office for us anymore. I’d much rather get Bale or vdV or Modric on my shirt given the choice – these are the current world class players.
David Beckham isn’t a football player any more.
He’s an FA puppet.