[Football] David Beckham, $150 million, Qatar

[brightn'ove]

Well they'll never understand his mockney mumbling accent

mockney? isn't he from leytonstone

 

[GT49er]

You do realise that what you're getting worked up about didn't happen? It's just well"quick"woody playing the victim as per because he gets called out for writing bollocks on here time and time again.
The two of you could start an argument in an empty room.

As I wasn't getting worked up about anything, the rest of your post is irrelevant.

When responding to a post, I look at what is said, not who posted it. Dissing a post, even if what it says is quite reasonable, because of who posted it is a bit like playing the man, not the ball. Not a good look..

 

[Live by the sea]

But refusing to look at a link because it leads to a perfetly factual and balanced story that just happens be in the Daily Fail (someine's found the link for you; you don't have to buy the paper, let alone read the whole of the paper or lap up the editorials) is exactly the same bias, stereotyping and narrow mindedness which keeps other factions trumpetng their virtual signaling by not readng The Guardian or the New Statesman.
Two lots of opposed closed minds, all of them bissfully believing that only the other side is the one with closed minds - bigots vs. bigots.

I totally agree the Mail has an agenda but so does the guardian . Don’t be fooled . Read a variety of media to be properly informed .

 

[Rodney Thomas]

As I wasn't getting worked up about anything, the rest of your post is irrelevant.

When responding to a post, I look at what is said, not who posted it. Dissing a post, even if what it says is quite reasonable, because of who posted it is a bit like playing the man, not the ball. Not a good look..

It sure read that way, mate.

 

[Eeyore]

But refusing to look at a link because it leads to a perfetly factual and balanced story that just happens be in the Daily Fail (someine's found the link for you; you don't have to buy the paper, let alone read the whole of the paper or lap up the editorials) is exactly the same bias, stereotyping and narrow mindedness which keeps other factions trumpetng their virtual signaling by not readng The Guardian or the New Statesman.
Two lots of opposed closed minds, all of them bissfully believing that only the other side is the one with closed minds - bigots vs. bigots.

I don't read the Daily Mail or look at its links because in doing so I may earn them revenue.

This is not to suggest that they may not print facts in their publication, it is because I have seen enough of their writing to know that it is a toxic tablet that has sown much discord and propagated ill feeling and false thinking against groups and individuals in society.

This is the 'newspaper' that wrote and article once that gave the impression a friend of mine was a worthy suspect in a murder of someone dear to him. Forgive me if I have a 'bias' against them. It is based in experience.

However, thanks for including me in the bigots. It is the first time someone has used that word about me. Always good to get a few firsts in before you die.

 

[AmexRuislip]

mockney? isn't he from leytonstone

Still a mockney

 

[Meade's Ball]

Beckham isn't the only one who goes to Victoria for advice. I had an issue with a pond-cleaning service who claimed to have found an otter in my 12ft-wide pond. They held its body aloft, and took a photo of it, whilst pointing at a divot in the lawn where they said it was building a riverbank and burrowing in to make its den. I had only asked them to annihilate the frog spawn found in there one spring morning, which they did with a big Henry hoover - THWUP, up the shoot the unborn flew. £80. But the otter added £350 to the bill. I was outraged, so wrote to Victoria. She was prompt with her response. She couldn't believe these hooray honkers, and said of a similar experience over an orca-body floating in one of her lakes. Her advice was effective. Set fire to the homes next door to the offenders, she said, and put a letter through their doors to say YOU'RE NEXT (she spelt it YOUR NIXT) so i did. An elderly couple, Bert and Fred O'Connor, lost their lives, being burnt to death, but the bill went back down to £80.

 

[Official Old Man]

Not a lot of time for Beckham. Think his tightly managed publicity machine may have dropped one here - they may turn it round but he seems to be more interested in brand image than anything else with his awful wife.

Surely working for Qatar is bad for his image.

 

[SeagullinExile]

A bit of extra cash to try and buy himself a New years honour....again.

He's a complete tw@t.

 

[Half Time Pies]

Classic
Beckham is already loaded.

$150 million is $150 million regardless of how much money you have! Generally when people get more money their horizons just expand. It's human nature to want more.

 

[stewart_weir]

Make of it what you will........

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/david-beckham-qatar-ambassador-b962184.html

I could have used a Daily Mail link but some people would choose not to read it, closed minds and all that.

Your quite right to not post ANY Daily Mail links -

"NewsGuard is warning visitors to the Daily Mail’s Mail Online website to tread with caution as the website hasn’t really passed the standards of journalistic credibility as far as cracking down on fake news, misinformation, and disinformation is concerned.

“Proceed with caution: This website generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability. This site repeatedly publishes false information and has been forced to pay damages in numerous high-profile cases,” the alert reads."

https://www.teiss.co.uk/daily-mail-fake-news/

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

But refusing to look at a link because it leads to a perfetly factual and balanced story that just happens be in the Daily Fail (someine's found the link for you; you don't have to buy the paper, let alone read the whole of the paper or lap up the editorials) is exactly the same bias, stereotyping and narrow mindedness which keeps other factions trumpetng their virtual signaling by not readng The Guardian or the New Statesman.
Two lots of opposed closed minds, all of them bissfully believing that only the other side is the one with closed minds - bigots vs. bigots.

That's a strange post.

I don't know of any conservative poster boasting that they don't read the Grauniad or New Statesman.

I certainly know one or two conservative posters who wouldn't wipe their arse with the newspaper that spent the 30s supporting Hitler and, in the last few decades, has mocked young women who are 'overweight', sneered at Mo Mowlem's appearance (when she was taking chemo and dying of cancer), and countless other drip drip drip nastiness. Ignorant, prejudiced and vile. Not 'balanced' by the grauniad on 'the left' at all.

But if the Mail is your newspaper of choice that fine by me

 

[Swansman]

Your quite right to not post ANY Daily Mail links -

"NewsGuard is warning visitors to the Daily Mail’s Mail Online website to tread with caution as the website hasn’t really passed the standards of journalistic credibility as far as cracking down on fake news, misinformation, and disinformation is concerned.

“Proceed with caution: This website generally fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability. This site repeatedly publishes false information and has been forced to pay damages in numerous high-profile cases,” the alert reads."

https://www.teiss.co.uk/daily-mail-fake-news/

One week later:

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/we-w...ing-after-talks-with-unnamed-daily-mail-exec/

"Newsguard now says the website “generally maintains basic standards of accuracy and accountability”. The start-up said the changes had been made following “discussions” with an unnamed Daily Mail executive."

Does this make Daily Mail a good paper? Not necessarily, rather it shows that these Orwellian "misinformation hunters" are shite.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Easy to be critical but I bet most on here would struggle to turn down $150 million if it was offered to them!

agreed , but when you don't actually need the money perhaps you can afford to be moral...

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Surely working for Qatar is bad for his image.

Perhaps someone has told him that Sharia law would be good for his household.

I just looked up Qatar on the web.

 

[Gwylan]

mockney? isn't he from leytonstone

Mockney is a much misused word. I've seen it applied to Jamie Oliver as well as Beckham.

For those in doubt -

mockney
/ˈmɒkni/
nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
a form of speech regarded as an affected imitation of cockney in accent and vocabulary.

It doesn't apply to people like Beckham and Oliver who come from working class backgrounds in east London/Essex. It applies to people like Guy Ritchie and Mick Jagger who have picked up a strange accent along the way.

 

[lost in london]

Not a lot of time for Beckham. Think his tightly managed publicity machine may have dropped one here - they may turn it round but he seems to be more interested in brand image than anything else with his awful wife.

He's starting to look a bit unnecessary now when contrasting with some modern players like Rashford, Henderson, Sterling etc who are genuinely getting their hands dirty rather than flitting around the world appearing in publicity videos.

Not sure why you think Victoria is awful, but your other point is bang on - think about what some players are doing with their platforms, this seems grubby in comparison. Beckham does do a lot of good stuff as well, that just makes this decision stink even more.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Haig club is a truly revolting whisky. What an awful thing to put his name to

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This, with 'Bells' on it.

 

[cunning fergus]

Mockney is a much misused word. I've seen it applied to Jamie Oliver as well as Beckham.

For those in doubt -

mockney
/ˈmɒkni/
nounINFORMAL•BRITISH
a form of speech regarded as an affected imitation of cockney in accent and vocabulary.

It doesn't apply to people like Beckham and Oliver who come from working class backgrounds in east London/Essex. It applies to people like Guy Ritchie and Mick Jagger who have picked up a strange accent along the way.

Beckham and Oliver have moulded themselves into brands that extend beyond their particular line of skills/expertise.

If you take a look at the River Cafe programmes (the cooking show in the 90s) which put Oliver on the TV in the first place, he is every bit the middle class boy from Clavering in rural Essex, which is closer to Cambridge than the hard streets of the east end or parts of Essex.

Inventing his new persona for his brand was simply great marketing, and consequently having sucked long and hard on the big swinging Corey of capitalism he is doing fine thank you, and certainly much better than the ex-workers in his now long dead chains of failed restaurants.

I don’t have an axe to grind about that, I just don’t buy what he is selling, a talented cook no doubt, but he is no more a working class east end boy than he is Sudanese. Albeit he did convince some African Americans that he had Sudanese heritage in his programme from the US.

Who’s the fool, the fool or the fool that follows the fool?

 

[maltaseagull]

I'm genuinely surprised by this move, I would have thought Beckham would have been a massive improvement on the pundits on Sky Sports. His huge experience of the game would have made for fascinating listening, you know.

Maybe he wants to break into management?