Guest 667- Registered: 6 Apr 2008
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#21
Andy I am not making assumptions about you or casting allegations and I am sorry if you took it that way. I was having a general say about the thread it's self, in that it is not the first time there has been a let's have a go about the game of football and footballers in general.
Yes I agree footballers at the top are far too over paid and football is bringing a lot of the problems on its self with clubs folding etc and with young men having so much money they get above themselves. However it is not all footballers and it is not all Clubs, this thread is generalising and started by having a go at one of the very good ambassadors of the game both for England and within the world of football.
So my gripe if you like is for people to have ago at Becks just because he has become rich through the game, I think if any of us were as good at a sport as he is and could have made the same financial gain then we would have grasped it, just as he has. It is not always what you get out of life, but what you do when you have got it. I know the news has gone on and on about his operation but is that his fault, truth is known he would more than likely would have just liked to have had the opp and gone home the same as the rest of us.
I know one thing I have rather have a sports person who has got rich through their own efforts than politicians who have got rich by fiddling the tax payer and there were a lot of them, but we do not generalise and say every politician is crooked.
By the way in case you have not realised I love the game, I used to go to watch West Ham but for me now it is grass roots football every time, you will see me at Crabble watching the Whites, I am there every game.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#22
Being a hard working, (well I think I`ve been), railway employee over the last 20 year`s, I wouldn`t mind my manager transferring me to another railway company for £100,000, (depending what percentage I get out of it of course). Wouldn`t we all like that chance in our jobs?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
#23
Harry, they're just the postings of envy mate. Whereas most nations celebrate a success story, Brits like to have a go at anyone who has either done well for themselves, or got that bit extra. The "havenots" always think the "haves" were born with a silver spoon. The Beckham family certainly didn't have any of those in the drawer when Becks was a young lad.
I say good luck to him. If my boss offered me a stupendously high salary to make sure he got or kept me, I'd be a fool to turn it down. So, why have a go at those whose talent puts them in demand. Does anyone carp about our film stars earning fortunes? No, we all love Michael Caine, Judi Dench etc., and have no problem with them earning big fees for saying a few words of make believe.
Live and let live.
#24
Beckham wears his England shirt with such pride that he lives in America mostly and advertises California. Yeah, right!!
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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#25
Thanks Bern, and I quite agree with you about rugby. As a younger man I played rugby to a very high standard and was being trialled in the England squad when a scrummage collapsed on me, ending my playing career at a stroke on Doctor's orders.
Howard, I take your point about Beckham - what a stay at home hero he is after all; how wrong can a man be? As for patriotism, thank you for patronising me over this. I'm a proud and patriotic Englishman through and through and will be cheering England on in the 6 Nations this weekend, in the World Cup in the summer and in the Ashes series at the back end of the year. My support for our national team crosses the threshold of football, you see, I'm not just one who hides behind the flag of St George singing Land of Hope And Glory whenever that tattooed cretin with an IQ lower than my cat dons the shirt. Being a patriot doesn't mean going all gooey eyed whenever the England football are about to enter a tournament - in fact I find the footballing hordes draped in the flag swilling lager until they drown quite offensive. Their behaviour brings shame on the beautiful game and their country in equal proportion; to suggest that my failure to endorse all that garbage renders me unpatriotic is, quite frankly, about as offensive as it comes without recourse to swearing.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#26
andy
patriotism to me is supporting ones country in all it's collective or individual endeavours.
i would support a national snakes and ladders team if one came into being.
i would have no problem how much they earned or where they lived.
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