An extended version of my Temperama post on Beckham. Here's a boss comment from the thread by a poster called zephirine:
"Enjoyed this article, like Dave Hill I find there's always something disarming about the guy. So many people seem to take it for granted that DB is dumb. If he's stupid, how did he get so rich? Yes, of course he has advisors - but there are a quite a few nice-looking sports stars out there who are also well advised and haven't coined it in like DB. Certainly he's not articulate - though better than he used to be - and he stills sounds unnervingly like Rodney from 'Only Fools and Horses', but that's not necessarily a measure of intelligence or business acumen. The man is in fact really, really good at making money. Prediction: David Beckham will spend about 6 years in LA during which time he and Posh will lead increasingly separate lives. He will then, with his usual naive charm, announce their divorce, his return to the UK, and his impending purchase of a Premier League club....Man U perhaps..."
You never know. And it would be one way to rid us of Sir Alex.
I think we should call any game played with a foot and a ball 'football'.
Soccer, Rugby, Football, hackeysack -- it's all the same to me! Buncha men sitting around, *eating* in my living room and subject to fits of tourettes syndrome. Who cares what it's called.
Kidding. Almost.
Beckham's kinda cute. He should go over well in LA.
Posted by: Littlebear | January 13, 2007 at 01:36 PM