Ok, Ok I know, the games are coming to London in 2012 but I aint sure why all the cheering.

But David Beckham, whats he all about all of a sudden?

At the table using Estery English that went out with my old gent. You go down to the Eastend and count how many times people use the word manor. If you get to one I would be surprised. Sad or what. And encouraged by journalist's laughter.

The places I know around the Eastend, Becks wouldn't last 5 mins.

What say you?

To be fair to him he is a good footballer but that is all.

He is very much a flashy young man who has had it easy all his life. A pratt in my opinion.

I will be fair, a very good footballer, but leave the Eastend bit out.

I'm just jealous of him realy, like most men are.

nick2, I can assure you, I for one am defo not jealous of him, his wife or their lifestyle.

Obviously some people don't want millions in the bank, a job that involves mainly playing a game for a couple of months a year, two healthy kids and a gorgeous wife.

Originally posted by nick2
Obviously some people don't want millions in the bank, a job that involves mainly playing a game for a couple of months a year, two healthy kids and a gorgeous wife.

I think he has three healthy kids now :) Brooklyn, Romeo, and ur, the other one? :suspect:

EDIT - Cruz!

You’re moaning about David Beckham for what exactly, using a word you think no one uses in London? So bloody what?

Is this the most pointless thread or what?

If you're not jealous, you’re just moaning for no reason what so ever!

I'll be quite honest; I am jelous of any flashy young man with a good sex life and afluant life style.

Perhaps we should have a "who are you jealous of ?" thread so we can all get it off our chests ?

I am making an observation that he has nothing in common with the Eastend, and the journos were patronising.

And yes I have all the stuff I want in my life ta. And that dont mean a 20000 quid play castle in his Sawbo mansion or 6000 quid ear studs for my son.

My thoughts, if you dont like it, tough

I have nearly everything I need too, but it would be nice to to be a millionaire and do what I wanted all day instead of go to work.

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
I am making an observation that he has nothing in common with the Eastend, and the journos were patronising.

And yes I have all the stuff I want in my life ta. And that dont mean a 20000 quid play castle in his Sawbo mansion or 6000 quid ear studs for my son.

My thoughts, if you dont like it, tough

For someone who's not jealous of David Beckham, you seem to know an awful lot about him and his possessions.

I think he has a lot in common with London seeing he was born and breed in Essex, had trials with Leyton Orient and attended Tottenham school of excellence!

totally agree, just being used as a muppet....sorry I meant puppet....:hihi:

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
Ok, Ok I know, the games are coming to London in 2012 but I aint sure why all the cheering.

But David Beckham, whats he all about all of a sudden?

At the table using Estery English that went out with my old gent. You go down to the Eastend and count how many times people use the word manor. If you get to one I would be surprised. Sad or what. And encouraged by journalist's laughter.

The places I know around the Eastend, Becks wouldn't last 5 mins.

What say you?

Originally posted by slimsid2000
He is very much a flashy young man who has had it easy all his life. A pratt in my opinion.

Why does that make him a pratt???

his parents wern't rich at all and he was born with a gift and he is using it!! if i earnt that amount of money id spend it on nice cars and clothes too.

He gets so much stick from the press its untrue- they should leave him alone and let him get on with his life- he has done so much more for england as a country then other people have and we should recognise that.

he does it for his own self interest rather than for the country....manufacturing photo shoots when it takes his fancy and crying about intrusion when his publicity plans go wrong....

Originally posted by scottf
Why does that make him a pratt???

his parents wern't rich at all and he was born with a gift and he is using it!! if i earnt that amount of money id spend it on nice cars and clothes too.

He gets so much stick from the press its untrue- they should leave him alone and let him get on with his life- he has done so much more for england as a country then other people have and we should recognise that.

Serapis, just to put the record straight. I have been in his Sawbridgeworth Mansion, I have spoken to him, and had tea on his lawn looking over the river.

Maybe I have a right to comment

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
Serapis, just to put the record straight. I have been in his Sawbridgeworth Mansion, I have spoken to him, and had tea on his lawn looking over the river.

Maybe I have a right to comment

Is that supposed to make it any better? Or is it worse seeing you have accepted his hospitality and now you are making nasty comments about him to anyone who will listen?

That sounds like jealousy to me!

And tell me, what record are we putting straight here? No one made any comments about how well you knew him? Sounds more like you are trying to boast to me!

why do people think its fine to take a pop at anyone in this country who makes a success of his life?

I just think that all of his life is a carefully orchestrated publicity stunt or photoshoot.I don't envy his lifestyle,but a portion of his wealth----------maybe.

You want money and all that crap, you're as sad as he

Originally posted by robbie
why do people think its fine to take a pop at anyone in this country who makes a success of his life?

I have no idea mate, it makes me laugh how people always try to put someone down if they have more than them! Just be happy for the guy and know the England football team wouldn't be anywhere near as successful as it is without him!

matsalleh,

I don’t think all of his life is a photo shoot, but if you had hundreds of paparazzi chasing you everywhere you might try your hardest not give them what they want, i.e. a picture of you in a compromising situation. or if you where paid millions to be seen in a certain brand, and the money depends on this, you would have the money and the inclination to employ people to help with this, such as stylists and PR.

David is a good ambassador for this country, he lives a clean and healthy life style and is a brilliant role model for the kids of the UK! He came from nothing to probably the most famous sports personality in the world. That’s something to be proud of, not belittle with snide remarks born out of jealousy! (not you matsalleh)

To be honest, if David was my son I would be extremely proud of what he has achieved. ok he may not be the brightest star in the universe and he has done some things that are silly, but he has a great talent and despite several kiss and tell slurs appears to be a dedicated family man. As mentioned in an earlier post we do seem to make an habit of slagging off people who have been successful. No matter how many times he gets knocked down, he continues to get up again, and I cannot wait to see him lift the World Cup in Germany 2006.

To be honest, he doesn't bother me. He seems to have a decent enough attitude, and unlike some other fottballer celebs, he also doesn't make a habit of getting blind drunk and fighting. The only thing about him that annoys me is how him and his missus are all over the papers constantly like that's all we want to read about.

To be honest, I think it gets up the noses of the h'educated media that he's a bit thick and has all this cash and doesn't spend it on stuff they approve of like Jamie Oliver books etc. (though he might for all I know...) If he wants to waste all that cash on getting his kids earrings then it's up to him. It's no different to spending all your dough on ballet lessons for the kids.

If I could pick up £100K a week I'd be the biggest prat/saddo about. You could say what you wanted about me.
Think I could just about live with being ridiculed on that.

I don't think he's 'sad', why is everyone always so nasty about people..I don't care very much about the London 2012 stuff (er.. unless its the snooker bit) or David Beckham.. but I don't mind them getting on in life with what makes them happy.

Originally posted by Mathom
To be honest, he doesn't bother me. He seems to have a decent enough attitude, and unlike some other fottballer celebs, he also doesn't make a habit of getting blind drunk and fighting. The only thing about him that annoys me is how him and his missus are all over the papers constantly like that's all we want to read about.

To be honest, I think it gets up the noses of the h'educated media that he's a bit thick and has all this cash and doesn't spend it on stuff they approve of like Jamie Oliver books etc. (though he might for all I know...) If he wants to waste all that cash on getting his kids earrings then it's up to him. It's no different to spending all your dough on ballet lessons for the kids.

I have to agree with all of the above comments. The criticism of David smacks of jealousy more than anything else.

In fact, the only justifiable criticism we can make of David is his... questionable taste in women :D

Originally posted by Abdul
I have to agree with all of the above comments. The criticism of David smacks of jealousy more than anything else.

In fact, the only justifiable criticism we can make of David is his... questionable taste in women :D

Totally agree with you Abdul. Why he ever chose an anorexic pouting bint is one of lifes mysteries. :gag:

Originally posted by Abdul
I have to agree with all of the above comments. The criticism of David smacks of jealousy more than anything else.

In fact, the only justifiable criticism we can make of David is his... questionable taste in women :D

I agree with the first part Abdul, but I heard it was the women who wanted the taste of Becks, not the other way around :P

Originally posted by Lestat
Totally agree with you Abdul. Why he ever chose an anorexic pouting bint is one of lifes mysteries. :gag:

Yes, and his alleged relationship with that upper-class pig abuser :loopy: :gag:

Reading some of these posts, inparticular those comments of Boppin Bruce himself, it's clear to see why we prefer a loser in this country.

Whether a talented footballer or not (it's usually a personal opinion) David Beckham is a success story, a rarity in the eyes of many and bad news for Fleet Street whose tabloid junk sells by the bucket load when Henman comes a cropper again or the British Lions get mauled down-under.

The English love a loser, but Beckham is outside that scope. He's not the most intelligent nor intellectual, but so what? He's not shying away from being a role model, appearing - and looking somewhat uncomfortable - at Live 8 and again at the Olympics yesterday. He's prepared to represent his country and where's the harm in that?

To many youngster he is a role model. As others have said, he seems to put family first and live a clean lifestyle.

Sometimes I don't know if people on this thread are envious of his money, his success or his fame. Personally, I reckon most are jealous because he's gone and achieved something off his own backside and not waited for the state to provide it.

Good luck Beckham.

It's just things like the team that has worked for months on end to win the olympics for Britain got about 10 seconds on the news whilst David Beckham & his bint got the rest of the news as though they'd single handedly won the bid themselves.

He turned up that evening, his mrs wouldn't even look at anyone and they were being asked all the questions, getting all the coverage!!

I'm not really a fan of the Olympics anyway, in fact I think it's the biggest waste of money and time ever but these guy's should've let the proper winners step forward.

Some of you must have been watching different News coverage to me (C4 & BBC) as I never even saw Posh Becks and the interviews with him were certainly not the major part of the coverage.

I don't think any of us will ever know how hard it must be to be under such harsh media scrutiny all the time. And don't trot out the old 'they get paid enough' line. You can't buy your way out of emotional and psychological pressure.

Good luck to him.

Dear old Becks is, even at his tender age, well on the way to becoming a National Treasure. He's good-looking, very good at his job and pretty clean-living. The facts that he's not the sharpest tool in the box and has a vocal delivery that makes Nigel Mansell sound distinctly fascinating only endear him to most of us as we do love our flawed heroes in this country. And we forgive the man the Rebecca Loos pecadillo every time we catch a glimpse of Skeletor's miserable mug.

For all those inclined to do the boy Beckham down on account of his lack of natural taste and restraint, remember this. He is neither squeaky, vile knitwear-modelling Emlyn Hughes nor flashy, accident-escaping general scumbag Naseem Hamed. Becks may be a bit of a muppet but, like the Royal family, he's part of the flimsy fabric of lunacy that makes Britain great. And accept it, the hapless lad and his skinny orange wife will be filling front pages for quite a few years to come.

David Beckham - not a bad lad and proud to be english - so what if he pops up to 'support' our bid how the fk does that make him sad???? - like it or not he's an ambassador for the country so get over it.

Exactly Bedhead, he's using his fame/talent to help us win the Olympic bid! What's wrong with that? I bet if i turned up and said how much i supported it no-one would care, but because of who he is....he can!! And good on him i say!
At the end of the day, the lads trained bloody hard (and believe me i bets its more hard work than you think!!) to become a pro footballer, earn his money and respect as one of THE best in the world! Of course your gonna milk it for every penny, that way he knows he can support his family for the rest of his life when his career is over!

Big up the Beck's, i think he rocks!

I think David Beckham is a really good footballer and a generally good, nice person. He supports and stands by his family, always has done and always will in my opinion. i dont understand why people are always saying bad stuff about him and slaggin him and his family off!!! Why can't people just leave them alone and let them get on with their lives, for example the media. they are always trying to bring him down for something saying that he's had affairs with this lass and this lass etc. It's just made up rubbish in my opinion to try and bring him down. Can someone just give him and his family a break for a change!!

Originally posted by XxGemmaxX
I think David Beckham is a really good footballer and a generally good, nice person. He supports and stands by his family, always has done and always will in my opinion. i dont understand why people are always saying bad stuff about him and slaggin him and his family off!!! Why can't people just leave them alone and let them get on with their lives, for example the media. they are always trying to bring him down for something saying that he's had affairs with this lass and this lass etc. It's just made up rubbish in my opinion to try and bring him down. Can someone just give him and his family a break for a change!!

Hi, I agree with you. "Yobos and the one finger up gold carrier - give me the David Beckhams any day.

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
nick2, I can assure you, I for one am defo not jealous of him, his wife or their lifestyle.

I believe you BoppinBruce. You're defo not jealous of him, his wife or their lifestyle for certain, 'cos you told us so.

Originally posted by BoppinBruce


And yes I have all the stuff I want in my life ta. And that dont mean a 20000 quid play castle in his Sawbo mansion or 6000 quid ear studs for my son.


Nor, it would it seem, are you jealous of their 20000 quid play castle in his Sawbo mansion, or the 6000 quid ear studs for their son.

Originally posted by BoppinBruce
You want money and all that crap, you're as sad as he



....nor, it would seem, or you jealous of his money and all that crap either.

So that just about accounts for all the things you are not jealous of, including his accent.

Originally posted by BoppinBruce

But David Beckham, whats he all about all of a sudden?


The question that's going through my mind is - what are you all about all of a sudden if it's not jealousy?:mrgreen:

Say what you like about him, yeah OK he's not Mastermind material, when speaking he sounds as if his ba**s have gone back where they came from, he has a very dubious taste in women, some of the stuff he wears is a bit questionable (thinking of his sarong and alice band) but as a business enterprise he, and I've got to admit it his missus as well, makes a pretty good advert.

He makes some sort of a gaff, in the general scheme of things it's never major league nor original.
Wow, a married man has an affair with an employee.
Big deal.
What it provides is publicity. He and his wife are fuelled on this, they know that while ever they're in the headlines their sponsors just love it.

As far as I'm concerned, so long as he plays a blinder for England I couldn't give monkeys.

Becks is alright with me. At least he didnt try to latch on live 8 like steven gerrard. "YEAH...MAKE POVERTY HISTORY, LIKE! Now, about that £100,000 a week contract..."

Is beckham a sad person, maybe so but hes very good at what he does?, making s--- loads of money for being a decent footballer.Hes never going to be the no 1 footballer in the world and he nos it, his he bothered, idoubt it. Personally i think is biggest problem is his waste of space wife, but thats me:heyhey: :heyhey: