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Bye bye Beckham? Has his England career ended? Does anyone care?

by stresster on January 31st, 2008 | 172 words | 9 comments

Despite the fact that he’s a foreign coach and shouldn’t morally be the manager of England, at least Fabio Capello has done the decent thing and put David Beckham’s international career out of its misery. The Daily Telegraph report that the Italian has already spoken to the former Manchester United and Real Madrid star, explaining […]

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Does wandering mistrel Beckham dropped from England squad?

by Dexter on January 31st, 2008 | 151 words | 1 comment

The Times’ potent blunderbuss of twin journo’s; Martin Samuel and Oliver Kay, reckon that David Beckham might not be receiving his 100th cap in the friendly bout against Switzerland. Although Becks won’t feature, it is more to do with Capello’s desire to test out other more unfamiliar options rather than dropping Becks beyond […]

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Arsenal’s Beckham bid out of the bag

by sub on January 14th, 2008 | 206 words | 4 comments

The cat is finally out of the bag. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has publicly admitted that at the end of the 2003-2004 season, he was immensely interested in signing David Beckham from Real Madrid and even held talks with people close to him who handled his career. But poor old Arsene had to be disappointed […]

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Becks meets Gordon Brown - but for what?

by sub on January 9th, 2008 | 208 words | 1 comment

This is some news. David Beckham attended a private meeting with British PM Gordon Brown on Tuesday and the reason for that is for you to guess.
ESPN Soccernet has reported that the Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder was in deep conversation with Mr. Brown for about an hour at the PM’s 10, Downing Street home. Beckham […]

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Beckham’s biggest fan wants him to get his 100th cap

by Dexter on January 7th, 2008 | 134 words | 17 comments

Sven-Goran Eriksson, possibly David Beckham’s biggest fan, thinks he fully deserves to be called up for what will be his 100th cap in the friendly against Switzerland next month. The Times journo Matt Dickinson writes:
“Sven-Göran Eriksson last night led the calls for David Beckham to be given his 100th England cap. At a tribute dinner […]

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Beckham close to agreeing terms with Arsenal

by stresster on December 22nd, 2007 | 131 words | no comments

David Beckham in an Arsenal shirt - who would have thought it? OK, so it might just be a training top but the former Manchester United winger is likely to be training with the Gunners squad in January, according to BBC reports. With the LA Galaxy currently in their close season, Beckham needs to find […]

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It’s Treble Money Time For Big Eck At Birmingham

by stresster on November 29th, 2007 | 195 words | 3 comments

The Glasgow Daily Record have no doubts that Alex McLeish’s decision to leave his post as manager of the Scottish national team to join Birmingham were primarily driven by money:
Alex Quits Scotland After Tripling His Wages
SCOTLAND were looking for another new manager last night after Alex McLeish trebled his money by jumping ship to the […]

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McClaren finally grows balls and drops Beckham and Robinson

by Josh on November 21st, 2007 | 204 words | 20 comments

When McClaren reverted to the ineffective midfield four of Cole-Lampard-Gerrard-Beckham against Austria you had to wonder what the last 18 months had been about, nothing had changed one bit. And then there was his decision to stick with Robinson in goal against the Russians a month ago, even though everyone knew he was in the […]

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Beckham Needs To Leave “The MLS Truman Show”

by Dexter on November 18th, 2007 | 220 words | 2 comments

“The signing of David Beckham delivered on our expectations in every measure,” Garber said. “The exposure we got because of David Beckham, regardless of how many games he played, was fantastic.”
Sift this through a ‘truth sieve’ and only about 1 percent of it would be left, and certainly not the utter balderdash […]

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Cheers, Mate! Fancy Some Soccer? Here’s A Primer On This Weekend’s Major League Soccer Cup

by CaughtOffside Team on November 15th, 2007 | 794 words | 3 comments

Article provided by our good friends over at Soccer Source.
Other than David Beckham and the L.A. Galaxy, UK football fans probably don’t know much about Major League Soccer, the 12-team U.S. professional league. Perhaps rightfully so; I’ll be the first to admit the caliber of play in MLS is not exactly on par with […]

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