Now I have only recently started to pay way too much for cable so I can get way too many channels. I have had a long appreciation for that very popular team sport of many names. I don’t care if you call it soccer, football, fotbol or whatever. While I now get the opportunity to watch lots of matches, not that many involve the English Premier League, I end up watching lots of matches from Spain, Brazil, Argentina, etc. Since I can’t really watch the English all that much, I can’t figure this one out for myself.
Just what did Beckham do to be so hated? I know he plays for Man U and that alone is worthy of hatred among many. I know he makes alot of money. I guess what I really want to know is how does one become so hated as to get a newsgroup called
up and running? I could ask over there but I don’t like posting to newsgroups, the single purpose of newsgroups is free and high quality porn! I also thought I might get a bit of a more subjective answer over here, and the odds of somebody trying to track me down and have me killed might be a tad less here as well.
Wasn’t sure where to post this, thought this was a good starting place and that this could end up in the pit soon enough.
I guess we all still hold him responsible for our exit in the last world cup when he got sent off for a stupid retaliation on an Argie player. He was laying on the ground, and kicked the guy making him fall over… right in front of the ref. Twat!
He’s also a bit of girls blouse in other areas, and just comes across annoying.
However, hats off to the guy, oplenly admitting wearing Victoria’s underwear… If I was lucky enough to have a girl like her…
Well that would explain it. I remember some years back when some south or central american team lost a world cup match by an on-goal (is that the way to type that?). Anyway the dufuss what messed up and scored in the wrong goal ended up murdered in the street a day or 2 later. I guess the pressure is rather tremendous when playing soccer for your country in most parts of the world.
There were numerous death threats here, but I think at the end of the day (to coin a popular phrase amongst head coaches) we brits are civilized enough to remember it is only a game… or is it?
Of course anyone with any brains whatsoever would realise that a) Beckham was one player, there were still 10 on the park, and b) England didn’t really deserve to get very far. We simply weren’t a very good team.
In many ways it’s quite a compliment that Beckham is hated so much as it speaks volumes about how well he often performs on the pitch.
Unfortunately in football there are days like yesterday, when the filthy red thieves come to OT for a point and walk away with three. Three points… from their cup final.
I agree, yes, it is down to the whole team… I remember that night, trying to be philosophical with my flatmate (an avid Milwall supporter) who was getting rather violent that night… I eventually decided to walk away and got an apology 2 days later.
I think Liverpool winning yesterday made my week at tad better, as they knocked us out in the Worthington Cup Wednesday… Guess which team I follow… If it had been a league match, we’d have got a point… maybe we can do better at OT!!!
As the venerable Bill Shankley is oft quoted:
‘Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.’
The player you’re thinking of is Andres Escobar, a Columbian defender that made an own goal in the match against the USA in the 1994 World Cup.
All this time, I had believed that he was shot over a parking incident rather than for his own goal.
Not so. This article interviews his father, among other people. He was sitting in his car, in a parking lot of a Medellin discotheque. Shot six times at point blank.
Unbelievable, and disgusting. But I doubt it could happen in England, or anywhere else in Europe for that matter. It takes a very, very violent society - like Columbia - where guns (and moreover, using them) is the norm rather than the exception.
Although England has laws about guns, The mob still find horific ways to kill. I remember watching a clip from about 92, when a brawl broke up outside a stadium, there were 3 or 4 lads jumping ON THE HEAD of an opposing supporter. Needless to say he didn’t make it. They lads were caught on film and duly sentenced. There was also an incident a couple of years ago of a lad outside a pub near where I lived (Near Crystal Palace ground).
Oh I hated Beckham long before his petulant display in the World Cup. I hate all of that Man Utd team - their overwhelming arrogance and belief that they should be allowed to get away with anything. That incident was just one example. Anyone who saw the way that team surrounded the ref in one game and virtually chased him off the pitch knows what I’m talking about (wish I could remember the game, but I’m sure there will be others out there who can).
I also hate the iconisation of a tedious, stupid, sulking child of a man. I guess that isn’t his fault, but I’m going to hate him for it anyway. Nyah.
In truth he is hard done by with the British press who love to build a hero up and then knock them down again.
They did this with Ian Botham, a cricketer and with Paul Gascoigne a soccer player.
Their errors in their personal lives were hugely magnified and exaggerated and often the press acted as agent provocateur in the hope of some juicy story.
Although I have no love at all for Manchester United, being a Leeds Fan hatred is compulsory, I would never deny that ‘Becks’ is a brilliant player. He does get himself stuck into his opponents rather than make like a superstar primadonna by keeping himself out of the basic cut and thrust of things.
There is a lot of envy, for here is a young man without any other obvious talent and a huge personal wealth with a wife who is the embodyment of success above talent.
All this cash and youth is considered a bit vulgar by many, but remember that the press has been unjustly unkind.
There are plenty of others who the press could turn their attentions to but at the moment it sells papers so the Beckhams have to endure it.
It really is unfair to put all this pressure on a young man who has made the best of what he has bvut then life is not always fair I guess.
He seems to be coping with it, the press would just love him to go off the rails a bit for the headlines but he jsut gets on with things.
I knew that Beckham was supposed to be good, I had often heard his name mentioned in very glowing terms. I have just had the pleasure of watching the first half of the match against Ipswich Town and I must admit, the praise for his skills looks to be spot on.
Second half is starting, I gotta go. The last match I watched Man U play, Beckham wasn’t on the field for some reason, not sure why.
