vegster
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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.
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[Football] David Beckham, $150 million, Qatar
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Unlikely, not many easy photo opportunities as a manager, you can't change your haircut or get a new tattoo to inspire the players.
.... and Inter Miami didn't automatically qualify for the World Cup? Sepp Blatter would say that Beckham could have bend himself a better deal.
Actually, if I was already a multimillionaire, like he is…..and for that role…..I definitely would turn it down.
Right, good that you have focussed in on the real issue here.
clapham_gull
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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.
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.
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rogersix
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rogersix
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maybe, it would help if could form a sentence
Cheeky Monkey
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Oh the irony, roger.
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vegster
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Mick Jagger has a pure North West Kent working-class accent which he hasn't seen fit to iron out. Good on him.
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.
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!
I think the Bukfast deal had already gone.