Let's be clear. This man kicks a ball around, essentially, he plays a child's game, tolerably well. He is not the greatest player in the world and never has been; he is not even good enough to have been included in the best 22 picked by a selection of world class coaches quite recently.
Beckham has played as a member of a team and been rewarded with stupid amounts of money. As captain, meaningless though the term is in modern football, of his national team, he has gained a following and esteem that is simply not justified by his actual performances.
His speech at the awards' ceremony, touching and sincere as it no doubt was, was also a little stomach churning. What price him turning up as a political representative of some sort, sometime soon ?
Lifetime Achievement ? Shouldn't we wait until he's had a life ?
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