becks

you know i feel sorry for david beckham. he just can't win.
he has always struck me as someone who is intensely proud of playing for his country. he always seemed to be the consumate professional who performed as best he could no matter what his circumstances were. he never seemed to shirk when the boys at real madrid told him he didn't have much of a future there. from what i can gather he just got on with his training and tried to show he was good enough to play for them.
steve mcclaren dropped him from england not because beckham was playing badly, but because he wanted to send a message out that mcclaren was not in the shadow of sven. perhaps a brave move and one that wouldn't be haunting him now if the rest of the english team had stepped up and won games.
meantime beckham, who had been dropped by england and apparently out of favour with real madrid did what any sensible person would do: go and get the best deal possible. thats exactly what he did. his deal with the la galaxy could be worth over a £100 million to him.
as if that wasn't enough beckham has turned in some great perfomeances with real madrid, inspiring them.
so poor english performances and sterling performances from beckham means a no brainer call up.

except the media want to have it both ways. they are the people who creat the media circus around beckham and his life. so they are the first people to go on about how choosing beckham to play for england isn't just about him playing but all the coverage that goes with it and how that may adversely affect the rest of the team.
easy solution there: leave him alone and just talk about the game. but they want to sell papers. so they will go out of their way to report on beckham the lifestyle. a case of having your cake and eating it.
to add to it the media are positing that the recall isn't about england's form it is more about selling tickets for the new wembley stadium.
the media will go on about mcclaren's u-turn (ignoring their own u-turns and their own attacks on beckham) rather than how this move might actually help england win again.
then they are making a big deal over the fact that his new team have said that they are pleased he has been picked for the national squad but they will not be keen on him playing in meaningless friendlies as he has a duty to his new team. in this they are echoig pretty much every other football manager but they are seen as being bad.

more and more i find myself liking david beckham just because he seems to be a nice bloke who has to put up with a lot of shit from a lot of people who are not as talented as him and who are just jealous of his success and talent.

here is hoping that he scores on his comeback.