David Beckham Joins Witness Protection Program

I doubt that.

So, which one of you lives in the UK and would actually be in the know?

Watching what I say here as this is MC, but

you doubt that it's not illegal to bring alcohol into a football stadium??

And regularly attends football matches. Incidentally, it's not just alcohol you are not permitted to take in but cans and bottles of juice as well.

He does...All I have to go by, here, are news blurbs about soccer...rare.

The actual reports aren't about scores...it's brawls.

On that note, watch as Beckham disappears into obscurity and ends up coaching a middle school league.

The point im trying to make is what you said. You believed we are allowed to take alcohol into the stadium after I told you we were not.

Doesn't stop punters having a drink before they go though.

The news blurbs you read about football violence usually relate to a fans from a few national teams at big events. Often its the ones not even in the stadium who fight. Football riots involving club teams in the UK are pretty much a thing of the past.

He'l be back in the UK before that scenario were ever to unfold. In terms of superstardom and sporting stratospheres, as much as you personally dispute it, Beckham is in the same league as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.

Although admitedly he has never went anywhere close to dominating the game in a sporting sence the way the other two have.

Considering that container ban you mentioned, I should think so.

I never went to a match, when I was there...Manchester United was big...about all I can tell you.

I golfed.

Considering the 50%+ income tax rate, I have doubts.

They are one of the biggest teams in the world.

Only if you're an Arsenal fan.

$250million dollars over five years, added to the huge amounts he and his ex pop star and now fashion designer wife have already made......... I don't think he'l be coaching high school teams.

Waste time? No. Trouser shedloads of cash? Well, let's see, what do you think the response of Ashley 'I nearly drove off the road at the insult of being offered £55k a week' Cole would be?

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Oh, and Techie, why do you think other half goes to the pub an hour before kick-off? All you can get in the grounds are styrofoam cups, and alcohol is a complete no-no.

*scoffs*

And they don't even need to live off past glories unlike you mob- History United!

Oh, and what 50%+ income tax rate? Top rate here for years has been 40%, and most people in Beckham's income bracket have companies and the like to reduce the amount they pay.
I stand to be corrected, but I don't think we've had a top rate of more than 40% for about 25 years...

And is it not normal for most high profile footballers salaries to be announced 'after tax'? Wasn't Keanes 100K per week after tax? Not sure.

Is that why every country outside the USA and Canada just loves it to the bone?

Yes.

It's simple.

And interesting.

No...not even remotely.

Not for fast-food brains of Americans, exactly!

You think there's a big conspiracy keeping soccer from catching on, here?

Do you even slightly lump all Americans in the same group i.e. not bright just because they don't care for soccer?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmsAqO_QQFE

Could it be more believable that Americans are not into a sport whose popularity transends the world, because their not actually any good at it??

Probably also accounts for the "World Series" being just us.

Could very well be.

I am not saying they aren't 'bright'. Americans are one of the brightest minds out there.

What I meant by 'fast food brain' is that Americans expect IMMEDIATE results on everything, and that transcends to sports. They must have huge freakin scores for the simplest of tasks otherwise there is no fun.

Football is light years ahead of that damned mutant rugby of American Football and Cricket is a more enthusiastic sport idiotic baseball.

:IMHO!:

I'd bang Victoria...

There isn't a 50% income tax rate here even on the highest paid people. He'll be at about 35%.

He's being brought here because he's a big name and there are a number of people here like me, who do not watch soccer unless it's world cup and yet still know exactly who he is. They think he'll generate interest here in the states and it may work to some extent. Hell, I may go watch him when he plays against the Dallas Club team just to see what the hype is all about.

I'm not likely to ever be more then a casual World Cup Soccer fan, but there is one thing I do know, and that is that Manchester United is the greatest football team to ever take the field!