Arg, I also meant to comment: so this makes him the sport’s first player/owner?
Or he’s known for being in the title for a Keira Knightly movie.
Beckham in the United States is simply not a major sports star. He’s much better known to girls as Posh Spice’s husband; as a sports figure he’s certainly not one of the top fifty athletes of interest to the average North American sports fan. It’s unlikely this will change given that he’s not really all that great.
Beckham’s impact on the North American sports scene will be equivalent to what would happen if Brett Favre joined an NFL Europe team for a big chunk of money. In other words, nothing much.
David Beckham spends a staggering $1500 a month on underwear! He says he never wears the same pair twice.
I’m hoping that his talentless, cadaverous wife’s breast implants explode in mid-air on the way over . . .
I’m hoping that one of our MLS rambunctious fullbacks takes the guy out with a crunching American-soccer-style tackle (you know, the kind that takes no talent, but which is lauded for its dedication to task), teaching him not to assume that the game here is easy to play, or that it will be officiated properly. 
Why on earth are you hoping that a pro athlete will be taken out by which I guess you mean injured.
I have no particular love for Beckham, and even less for that Bag 'o Bones laughingly called “Posh” but I’d not wish injury on any player.
Why also do you assume that Beckham thinks the game is easier to play in the USA ?
Furthermore, why shouldn’t the game be officiated properly, FIFA rules apply no matter where the game is played and referees have to strictly observe them
DSYoungEsq is presumably referring to the persistent comments that referees ‘go easy’ on Beckham, due to his prominence and the likely angry reaction of fans if he was thrown out of a game. Thinking that since he is not so well known here in the USA, referees here are likely to treat him just like any other player.
The game’s laws are interpreted quite differently from country to country; the game as played in Argentina bears almost no resemblance to the game as played in Germany, for example.
And the post was in the spirit of a JOKE. You know, humor. :rolleyes:
He must think it’s easier to play here, or he wouldn’t be leaving one of the best leagues in the world to come here. DUH.
I think he’s used to low quality, physical football. He did play in England for most of his career.
:eek: 
No, really. English football (especially until 1996, the “year Johnny Foreigner taught us how to play,” said FourFourTwo- and meant it) was much more physical and brutal than the Italian and Spanish leagues. Even the best players in England were much more in the “gritty, determined” mo(u)ld than the “skillful, creative”: Alan Shearer, John Barnes, and so on.
There were always exceptions, of course- George Best and Paul Gascoigne come to mind- but even they were tough as well as creative.