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Bye bye Derek

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I sat down wiv my advisors and they broke the bad news to me that I only have enough space for about five more tattoos on me body, then me free skin'll be all used up. So that left me wiv two options: one is to be put in a coma to make sure I do very little for the rest of me life so I don't need more than abaht three more major tattoos, or do a lot an' then get a new body. So I'm going wiv the, er, fing that comes after 'one'. Cos there's a new pair of pants to model next month, and I'm due a new moustache in August. It's chaos! But in football there's a tattoo-worthy fing happening practically every match, an' there's no way a donor body will be ready for me in time if I keep playin', so I've got to retire. I'd like to fank everyone who's ever given me any money. Fank you!
 
Could have been worse, and he's not the worst off the field
On the field, he was very good when younger, and decent enough thereafter.
Some of his advisers were absolute plonkers. But that happens
Always felt he remained a decent fella despite it all. Could have been a tosser.

I remember being at a party in 2008 in Toronto when he was at the height of the US mania. MLS after party. He came in and sat down for a drink. by himself. Everyone at the party gawked, but he was behind two bouncers. you couldn't talk to him without going through the two bouncers. Some made it through. As he left, a Turkish friend jumped out, and asked him to autograph his jersey, that he was wearing. He obliged. Essentially, he showed up for his contractual appearance then left. He was pretty decent to a lot of kids in L.A. when other pros are a little jaded.
 
gkmacca said:
Nature gifted him the kind of bow legs that allowed him to curl his crosses with unusual ease. Nature also gave him the kind of brain that required him to ink all of his thoughts on the outside of his skin as a cosmic joke at Pascal's expense. He ruined quite a promising England team by treating all of their matches like a spoilt brat's birthday party, hogging every dead ball opportunity, wasting most of them, and inspired a whole generation of players to think that the game is all about image, money and media exposure. He will continue to be loved and revered by people who don't like football.
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Brilliant post.
 
Can't stand the cunt. When he fucked off to America I was delighted as I thought (stupidly) we'd have to put up with less of his attention-grabbing bullshit. Wrong. Fuck him and the plastic manc horse he rode in on. Although she was from Essex or somewhere hideous too wasn't she?
 
LeTallecWiz said:
I am a bigger man than most of you, and just like I think Sir Alex Ferguson is the greatest manager ever, I think Beckham is probably the best English player of his generation. Yup, fuck you haterz. He never disrespected Liverpool anyways.
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Weirdest post ever.
 
Halmeister said:
Nah, years 1999 through to about 2004 he was class. Brilliant footballer, not overrated. Also, one of the few Mancs I don't actually mind and never did anything wrong really towards our club. I'm not his biggest fan by any means, but I have respect for his career.
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Mors is right, he'll be overrated - because of his fame.

He was a very good player, but he'll be remembered as one of the best ever ever.
 
I like Beckham, he gets a lot of stick for all of his adverts and media attention but he seems like a decent bloke.

World class passer of the ball, excellent crosser and outstanding long balls not to mention a great finisher for a midfielder.

Also had the innate ability to take over a game and provide the winner. Also amazing how he willed some really average England sides to wins. If you go back and watch the highlights from the '06 world cup you will be surprised as how many goals Beckham set up for England.
 
Good player not great who worked his balls off on when he was on the pitch. His face, brand and all that shite made him a superstar not his footballing ability but I can think of worse role models for kids.

It's weird, he was always one player I wanted to hate but I don't mind him. I think the fact he played on so long shows he loves football, he could've retired and fucked about on red carpets in LA years ago.
 
I respect the fact hat he seems to have a pretty solid marriage that has survived many years in a pretty bright spotlight. I know, it could be all for show, but many "celebrity" marriages make it no where near as long as his has.
 
Emerged at the time that football shifted away from being a sport and morphed into a global, money-making enterprise; and his face fit perfectly.
I actually think, underneath the multitudinous layers of bullshit, he was a very good player; not a great one though. And obviously, I wasn't prepared to admit that much until he left Utd.
He seems like a decent chap although his Mrs makes my piss boil.
 
He was a very good right sided midfielder, but was better there than the central midfielder he fancied himself to be.

He had a sweet right foot and could plant a great cross with pin-point accuracy, but he was helped a lot by opponents who gave him acres of space time and again. He rarely had to make the space himself with a great dribble or drop of shoulder, nor did he need to make a lot of crosses with a man pressed close on him (i.e. the basketball equivalent of "shooting or pinging a pass with a hand right in your face"). He had the awareness to run into unguarded areas, and defenders had the defensive nous to just slack off him.

If you think I'm being harsh, look at the crosses he makes in this clip. Look at the amount of space he's allowed to casually stride into time and again, and to put the measured, accurate cross. Yeah, he still needed to put in a proper cross consistently, but I bet Super Stu puts in a fair bit of those if you give him that much space and time.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge2fLvSL1tU
 
Karl Hungus said:
I respect the fact hat he seems to have a pretty solid marriage that has survived many years in a pretty bright spotlight. I know, it could be all for show, but many "celebrity" marriages make it no where near as long as his has.
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This is true. He could easily have gone crazy but seems to have kept it together. Didn't do a Giggs or Terr either. And never disrespected any club he played for.

He just doesn't fit the fans' image of what a footballer should be.
 
studsup said:
He was a very good right sided midfielder, but was better there than the central midfielder he fancied himself to be.

He had a sweet right foot and could plant a great cross with pin-point accuracy, but he was helped a lot by opponents who gave him acres of space time and again. He rarely had to make the space himself with a great dribble or drop of shoulder, nor did he need to make a lot of crosses with a man pressed close on him (i.e. the basketball equivalent of "shooting or pinging a pass with a hand right in your face"). He had the awareness to run into unguarded areas, and defenders had the defensive nous to just slack off him.

If you think I'm being harsh, look at the crosses he makes in this clip. Look at the amount of space he's allowed to casually stride into time and again, and to put the measured, accurate cross. Yeah, he still needed to put in a proper cross consistently, but I bet Super Stu puts in a fair bit of those if you give him that much space and time.


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge2fLvSL1tU
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The thing is, good crossing is actually quite a rare skill.

There are probably tons more superkids out there who can dribble an entire field or do back flicks than cross consistently. It's a boring, old-fashioned skill that isn't very glamorous.
 
Well, I'm not saying he wasn't a good crosser - in fact, I said the opposite, and he was consistently good at it too. I'm just saying people made his work easier because they kept slacking off him and giving him time and space, which is mighty weird, considering he was such a good crosser and that he really didn't have a lot of speed or tricky footwork to dance around them if they did press closer.
 
Karl Hungus said:
I respect the fact hat he seems to have a pretty solid marriage that has survived many years in a pretty bright spotlight. I know, it could be all for show, but many "celebrity" marriages make it no where near as long as his has.
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Well they can't really argue, unless one of them has acquired opinions.
 
Hyena said:
This is true. He could easily have gone crazy but seems to have kept it together. Didn't do a Giggs or Terr either. And never disrespected any club he played for.

He just doesn't fit the fans' image of what a footballer should be.
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What about Rebecca Loos?
 
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