[Football] David Beckham, $150 million, Qatar

[vegster]

Maybe he wants to break into management?

Unlikely, not many easy photo opportunities as a manager, you can't change your haircut or get a new tattoo to inspire the players.

 

[Albion my Albion]

.... and Inter Miami didn't automatically qualify for the World Cup? Sepp Blatter would say that Beckham could have bend himself a better deal.

 

[knocky1]

Wow what a way to make $150 million.

$23,000 for each death of the 6,500 migrant workers killed from the World Cup construction.

Resign from your job at UNICEF ****.

 

[DJ NOBO]

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

Actually, if I was already a multimillionaire, like he is…..and for that role…..I definitely would turn it down.

 

[CheeseRolls]

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.

Right, good that you have focussed in on the real issue here.

 

[BN9 BHA]

That 150 million has made him feel better

 

[clapham_gull]

People often attack the British for building people up and knocking them down when they become successful.

I disagree with that. I think we are mostly suspicious of celebrities who "dehumanise" themselves to the level of a "brand" and often rope their family in to do so.

The other examples being Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey. All have been incredibly successful in their respective careers and have earnt their dosh, but I find the exposure and promotion of the rest of the clan (like DVD extras) a bit strange.

I expect the model is our Royal Family, but it isn't as if they chose to do so.

 

[rogersix]

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

another open goal; top drawer, wellthick

 

[rogersix]

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, it would help if could form a sentence

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

maybe, it would help if could form a sentence

Oh the irony, roger.

 

[wellquickwoody]

maybe, it would help if could form a sentence

 

[vegster]

People often attack the British for building people up and knocking them down when they become successful.

I disagree with that. I think we are mostly suspicious of celebrities who "dehumanise" themselves to the level of a "brand" and often rope their family in to do so.

The other examples being Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey. All have been incredibly successful in their respective careers and have earnt their dosh, but I find the exposure and promotion of the rest of the clan (like DVD extras) a bit strange.

I expect the model is our Royal Family, but it isn't as if they chose to do so.

See also, Strawbridge D. Escape to the Chateau. He seems to have completely cast off his previous family with whom he used to circle the UK doing charitable deeds on daytime TV?

 

[middletoenail]

Good on him, he should have been knighted a long time ago. If someone offered me that sort of money, I'd work for any of the Emirates and China. Business is business.

 

[keaton]

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

Indeed, the correct equivalent would be a left winger who would refuse to read a story in The Times or Telegraph which I've never heard anyone say(other than because you've got to pay to read them)

 

[Sid in the Sharknado]

Indeed, the correct equivalent would be a left winger who would refuse to read a story in The Times or Telegraph which I've never heard anyone say(other than because you've got to pay to read them)

I refuse to read Quentin Letts' articles.

Because he's an absolute ****-headed bellend with an abandoned wasps nest where his brain should be.

I did stop getting it for a while but I like Mike Atherton's cricket writing . I might not bother with it once the offer I'm on at the moment expires.

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

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.

Mick Jagger has a pure North West Kent working-class accent which he hasn't seen fit to iron out. Good on him.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Mick Jagger has a pure North West Kent working-class accent which he hasn't seen fit to iron out. Good on him.

North West Kent you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCSzP6dmmo

 

[rippleman]

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

If I was in Beckham's position of having more money than I could ever possibly spend I could easily turn it down. It's just greed and selling his soul to the highest bidder.

I would love to say I'm surprised. But it's Beckham, so I'm not.

 

[rippleman]

Indeed, the correct equivalent would be a left winger who would refuse to read a story in The Times or Telegraph which I've never heard anyone say(other than because you've got to pay to read them)

My late dad, who never voted anything but Labour his entire life used to read the Daily Mail. When, as a youngster, I tackled him about why he was reading the Mail he said "Son, it's always important to keep up with what the opposition are thinking and doing". He had a point!

 

[zefarelly]

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

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