Rob Parker | March 11, 2010
Goldenballs dons gold-and-green
After the disgraceful hostile reaction to his arrival on the pitch last night, David Beckham (ever the populist) sought to win back over those seething Manchester United supporters by wearing a green-and-gold Love United, Hate Glazer scarf at full-time.
They just don’t like you, David, and they can see straight through your publicity stunts. [...]
Rob Parker | January 11, 2010
AC Milan fans get the Armani ad live-show
AC Milan are certainly getting their money’s-worth out of David Beckham. Just his second match for the club and he is already performing an on-pitch striptease.
Away from the underwear department, it was another fine display from Becks as he grabbed an assist in a 3-0 win over Juventus. [...]
Rob Parker | January 7, 2010
Becks has quite a lot of territory
To celebrate David Beckham’s return from blackhole MLS, we are continuing our Nouveau cliche feature with a suggestion from OTP reader Dave Macbeth. His most irritating new football cliche is ‘David Beckham territory’.
As far as he can tell, the average commentator believes Beckham territory (also known as the [...]
Rob Parker | January 7, 2010
No-er, it’s-er David-er Beckham-er
For someone who is used to littering his interviews with ‘erms’, adding an ‘er’ suffix to every word probably comes quite easily.
On the pitch, Becks was far more assured as he put in a very impressive 76-minute shift on his return to AC Milan as they ran out 5-2 winners against Genoa. [...]
Rob Parker | January 5, 2010
Please don’t dive mister. That’s embarrassing mister.
Meet the internet-imagined reworking of South Korean girl group Kara. Each of the singers have a favourite footballer and they just love to fill their song with references to their ‘baller of choice, be that cute chubby Frank, Mr Spice Girls or another football superstar.
Thanks to Mof Gimmers for [...]
Rob Parker | December 30, 2009
Becks meets his old new team-mates
After all the pressure of being MLS’s biggest fish, it must have been nice for David Beckham to kickback with AC Milan’s superstar squad… for a training session which appears to have had its very own Beckhamcam!
Becks was given a clean bill of health at his medical check-up. Milan doctor [...]
Rob Parker | November 16, 2009
Becks has the X Factor
David Beckham celebrated LA Galaxy’s victory over Houston Dynamo in the Western Conference Championship by unveiling a new haircut, which appears to be in his team’s colours. The brand new Beckham barnet also comes with optional bald patches.
And it puts Beckham in contention to become the third member of controversial X [...]
