posted Jun 4, 2008

It was depressing to see Capello select Beckham to start both of the recent friendlies. What could possibly have been learned from yet another Beckham cap?

Beckham's performances in the last two friendlies against very moderate opposition at best did not suggest anything different from what we already know. He can still take a decent free kick and corner but he is not the only England player who can do this. What he lacks is any variation on his own pedestrian theme. He has been able to get away with it for some time now against mediocre opponents but whenever the top sides show up his shortcomings have been only too apparent.

If we are ever to progress from the lacklustre predictable team we have been over the past decade then we need some invention and pace on the flanks. Otherwise it will be the same old depressing story under Capello as well.

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posted Jun 4, 2008

Don't know if you saw the interview with Alex Ferguson last night on Sky. When he was asked to name the 5 top players in his 20 years at Man Utd. He named 3. Keane, Cantona and Robson. No Beckham.......... I rest my case to the Beckham lovers. And isn't it rich for Beckham to advise Ronaldo not to go Madrid. The man who sold his soul to the dollar......Priceless

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posted Jun 4, 2008

onewelshunited,i know some REAL united people mate,not the plastic groupies that think "becks" is a "legend".A united "legend" pal is Best,its cantona,its charlton,its edwards,its law,its keane-it is NOt little wannabee boy "becks" you utter embarrassment to that great club.When Beckham returned in that exhibition match recently the crowd was overwhelmingly made up of kiddies,the united fans i heard from gave thier tickets to those that wanted to go,mostly from tehir "new breed".If and when Cantona returns no true united man would give up their ticket to see him for anything,thats a united "legend" sir,learn the difference.Beckham has had NO affect on "world football" other than through his face,his "celebrity" and off the field "accomplishments".He has NEVER impacted a world tournament,either european or the world cup,he has NEVER produced a "world class" performance against a heavyweight great nation of the game.He endured 4 woeful years at euopes biggest club madrid where he instigated their collapse from europe and spains best to spains 2nd team and euopean no-hopers.He goes down as the ultimate symbol of our age,a figure farcically overhyped and over-packaged who when it really came down to it,when the big moments really arrived,failed and fell each and every time,thats the reality.

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posted Jun 4, 2008

"He has NEVER impacted a world tournament,either european or the world cup,he has NEVER produced a "world class" performance against a heavyweight great nation of the game."

And Best, Keane and Cantona did?

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posted Jun 4, 2008

they impacted and drove a great club c15hammer.2 were part of small nations,if Beckham had been irish he would have got maybe 1 tournament tops.He wasnt,he was given unprecedented chances by a major football country,5 massive tournament chances and failed comprehensivly each and every time.France is a great football naton,they like england went through a funny spell in the arly 90s but their 98-2006 team wouldnt have found a place for Beckham,if he had been french a squad place would have been his best hope and certainly not the "starring role" he engineered with england.

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posted Jun 5, 2008

comment by loudLovelyrita (U10954955)
posted Yesterday

The only time we have failed to qualify for a major tournement is when the wally with the brolly dropped Beckham.Get your facts right,you plonker!

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your the plonker mate. we failed to reach the 1994 world cup, get your facts right.

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posted Jun 5, 2008

and about beckham have you not forgot he single handedly got us to the 2002 world cup, in the game against greece. beckham has been a credit to the england national team. he has had the all time low of 1998 against argentina but has buonced back from that incredibily and showed true character to become captain of his national team. i do think now that he is not able to still be captain because i do not think he is playing at a high enough standard of football week in week out to be sharp enough to play for a international squad that is looking to win medals. i bet all of you people slagging him off about 3-4 years ago were saying that he works the hardest and puts in all the effort, thats because he did.

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posted Jun 5, 2008

'Beckham single handedly got us to the 2002 World Cup'......

How often have we heard that?

Strip away the hype and you will see how after umpteen free kicks that failed to even get close Beckham finally managed to secure a draw for us against a Greece team (who were probably lulled into a false sense of security after the previous attempts!) and who were long since out of the reckoning anyway

Beckham's superb effort did mean that we were spared the two legged play off Ukraine, which incidentally Germany won comfortably. To say he singlehandedly got us to the World Cup is a bit over the top even for him.

But it was his finest hour for England. A freekick, after many unsuccessful attempts, in a qualifier, against a poor team with nothing to play for.

Not quite the stuff of legend is it?

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posted Jul 24, 2008

Yes I agree with Butcher, that Ferdinand should be captain, it's time for Beckham and Terry to step over, they've had their chances, and both have blown them, I think it time for these players to be captain now, (in the order that they are shown):

Ferdinand
Gerrard
Barry

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posted Jul 24, 2008

and Rooney

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