[Football] Arise Sir Dave

[Dick Head]

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

This guy does a significant amount for The Prince’s Trust and other charities, I think it’s thoroughly deserved, and overdue.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Spoilsport

 

[KZNSeagull]

A classic bit of skill here from Sir Dave 1 minute in. The clown.

 

[albionalba]

Just remember, it's all down to us for his Man U debut in 1992.

Don't you remember us all chanting presciently :

"You may be shite
But you're gonna be a Knight"

when he came on?

Anyway, I'm in on this one. It's fine with me.

 

[WhingForPresident]

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[Algernon]

This guy does a significant amount for The Prince’s Trust and other charities, I think it’s thoroughly deserved, and overdue.

I'm ok with him getting this but when you are super rich, incredibly good looking and stuff, when people are falling over themselves to pay you huge amounts of money to have you endorse their products, and you know you have the choice of going home to your wife or stand around with your top off and tats out looking moody, it's easy to allow yourself to be the face of charities.
Fair play to him for raising awareness of certain charities but I'd like to know if he gets paid for his charity work, whether he has donated any of his own millions (not his time as that's easy to give and a standard cop out) and whether he himself has ever contacted any specific charity to be involved with them rather than being approached or advised by his management firm.

I reckon there are thousands of people who do more for various charities each year, both in terms of actual "work" and give far more financially as a percentage of their income/savings than sexy photogenic universally famous Becks.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Pathetic.

 

[Dick Head]

Spoilsport

Who? Me or Captain Disillusion?

 

[vegster]

This is really good for David, he was slowly becoming an irrelevance. This puts him right back in the public eye and is a huge boost for his sponsors and advertisers.

 

[Pickles]

Apparently, he has OCD.

...tell him he has cdo, that'll really do him.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Well I for one can't wait for the ceremony, and the touching moment when whichever royal gets the gig anoints him with the sword and pronounces him

"Sir David Beckham, in association with Haig Club, Nespresso, AIA, Tudor Watches Ltd and the Qatar National Bank".

Sob.

 

[A1X]

David Beckham: *makes debut against Brighton & Hove Albion*

Brighton fans:

 

[drew]

Nice to see on here comments from so many people that achieved more than Beckham did in their careers and have done as much for charitable causes.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Nice to see on here comments from so many people that achieved more than Beckham did in their careers and have done as much for charitable causes.

It's funny, because that does sound rather like you're suggesting being pretty good at football is more of an achievement than, let's say, a primary school teacher who's spent 30 years working in an inner city school, or a social worker dealing with abused and neglected children every day, or a surgeon performing life-saving cardiac procedures.

 

[vegster]

Nice to see on here comments from so many people that achieved more than Beckham did in their careers and have done as much for charitable causes.

After a hard 90 minutes lying around in a sarong or Calvin Klein underpants being photographed for huge amounts of money I'm surprised he can find time for all these charitable causes....forget the knighthood, he should go straight to Saint.

 

[slimes]

Every Sir I've known has turned out to be peado.. finally one who isn't!!!!

 

[drew]

It's funny, because that does sound rather like you're suggesting being pretty good at football is more of an achievement than, let's say, a primary school teacher who's spent 30 years working in an inner city school, or a social worker dealing with abused and neglected children every day, or a surgeon performing life-saving cardiac procedures.

How did you arrive at that hypothesis? Did you read my whole post (all one line of it!)? But it's not for his football but that gave him the platform but it's reportedly for his 20 years work as an ambassador for Unicef and other stuff.

 

[drew]

I'm ok with him getting this but when you are super rich, incredibly good looking and stuff, when people are falling over themselves to pay you huge amounts of money to have you endorse their products, and you know you have the choice of going home to your wife or stand around with your top off and tats out looking moody, it's easy to allow yourself to be the face of charities.
Fair play to him for raising awareness of certain charities but I'd like to know if he gets paid for his charity work, whether he has donated any of his own millions (not his time as that's easy to give and a standard cop out) and whether he himself has ever contacted any specific charity to be involved with them rather than being approached or advised by his management firm.

I reckon there are thousands of people who do more for various charities each year, both in terms of actual "work" and give far more financially as a percentage of their income/savings than sexy photogenic universally famous Becks.

Apparently when at PSG he donated all of his salary to two French children's charities.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Fair play to him for raising awareness of certain charities but I'd like to know if he gets paid for his charity work, whether he has donated any of his own millions (not his time as that's easy to give and a standard cop out) and whether he himself has ever contacted any specific charity to be involved with them rather than being approached or advised by his management firm.

I disagree. Time is harder to give. If you have money there’s little easier than giving some away.