I try to follow soccer. I really do, but some of the player movement just doesn’t make any sense to me. Transfers, I can figure that out. It’s just a stupid word for “trades.” But the concept of loaning out players–quality players that have such a finite shelf life as it as–that just boggles my GD mind. So if any of you have any insight about this David Beckham going-to-AC-Milan-and-then-five-months-later-returning business, by all means, jump in. One fan tried to do just that in Beckham’s MLS return to LA last night:
At halftime, Beckham walked toward the L.A. Riot Squad section and motioned to a fan to come closer. A man jumped down from the seats and was subdued by security before being taken away.
“One of the guys was saying things that wasn’t very nice. It was stepping over the line,” Beckham said. “I said, `You need to calm down and come shake my hand,’ and he jumped over.”
The man was arrested by Cal State Dominguez Hills police for trespassing because he left the seating area, a Home Depot Center spokeswoman said. via.
So Beckham leaves LA to play in a league where he wanted to play all along (I presume), comes back to MLS to fulfill his contract, and then gets his ass booed off the entire game. Like I said, I don’t really get it. Obviously, the Galaxy faithful are a little bent that Beckham left. I’m just amazed that fans in LA were able to get to the game before halftime. That’s more commitment than Beckham seemed to show to LA.
Noted immigrant David Beckham appears to be gone from America, at least for now. And it is good. But this isn’t an anti-soccer rant or an anti-foreigner rant, or even an anti-hey-he’s-better-looking-than-me rant, because I could do those all day. No, it’s good because he just packed up his fish and chips and got the hell out. He didn’t sit around and complain about how he was stuck with his Scientology friends every day or how all the men in California act like little girls or why there was cocaine everywhere. Contractually, he seemingly has the right to leave. He just uneventfully got on a plane and left, and frankly, I admire a man that can handle his business with a quietly firm hand.
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The LA Galaxy doesn’t seem to be as eager to part. They’ve probably called him and left sad, annoying messages on his machine. You know, the kind where the person on the line was crying so hard that their nose started running. They probably told Beckham to come back and pick up his stuff and he was all, I don’t really want it, and they were all, But you have to, and he was all, No, I think I’m good. And then maybe ten or twelve years from now they’ll be facebook friends and leave “How long has it been?” sort of messages on each other’s walls, and then browse through each other’s uploaded photos, and that’s how it’ll end. And that’s okay.
There’s gonna be a lot of disagreement about this one, but daaaaamn Victoria Beckham looked good at the opening of the new Armani store in New York. A lot of people say that she’s too skinny or looks like a Fembot, and they mean it like those are bad things. No way. I dig the sassy short dress and the super-high heels and the fact that her hair and makeup probably took hours. She gives off an air that she’s way too good for me… and that only makes me want here more.
More pictures of her below, and for you ladies out there I added some of her husband shirtless after a recent AC Milan game. Hubba hubba or whatever.
And just so we get some sports discussion: it’s looking more and more like David Beckham will never return to MLS, something that doesn’t really matter to American soccer fans (both of us). But it’s a good opportunity for the media to crow about Beckham’s failed American experiment. “GRAWRRRR! He failed to meet the overblown expectations that we created by overhyping him! Now we hate him!” Well played, sports media. Well played.
DC United's Luciano Emilio Gonzalo Martinez took this laser from David Beckham directly to the groin during the second minute of yesterday's game at RFK, leaving the forward writhing on the pitch while Becks chuckled about destroying another man's genitalia. Which, when you think about it, is the only appropriate reaction.
[Update: basically, the rest of this post no longer makes sense.] However, the DC trainers must have poured some magic water down Emilio's shorts, because he stayed in the game to register two goals and an assist in United's 4-1 win over the Galaxy. Pretty impressive. I took a point-blank shot to the groin once while I was playing goalkeeper in an intramural league. Not only did I leave the game, I didn't even take a deep breath for the next week. I also cried myself to sleep that night. But, to be fair, that was more because I rented Finding Nemo.
Sadly for the three women disturbed enough to read this blog, David Beckham's air-kiss to FC Dallas's Adrian Serioux wasn't foreplay to hardcore gay sex, but a taunt after the defender delivered this egregious two-foot tackle from behind that earned Serioux a red card during the Galaxy's 5-1 win on Sunday.
As Serioux tromped off the field at Pizza Hut Park, Beckham blew him a couple of kisses and then curled up his fingers and gave him a few farewell waves. That riled up the record crowd of 22,331, and from then on they booed Beckham every time he touched the ball.
Beckham's response? After laying on the perfect cross for Edson Buddle to head home his third goal of the game and the Galaxy's fifth, Beckham turned to the crowd and put his right forefinger to his lips in a shushing motion.
Holy crap. There were 22,000 Texans at a pro soccer game? Was there some kind of crazy promotion? "All kids under 12 get a free FC Dallas hand gun"?
The Beckhams went out to dinner in London last night, where they finished in second place at the Las Vegas costume contest. They probably could have come in first, but David forgot his green visor, and the judges dismissed Victoria's whore outfit as "too obvious."
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