Posh ‘n’ Becks at Scotts
According to Mr Paparazzi, David and Victoria Beckham dined with Gordon Ramsay at Scott’s restaurant in Mayfair, London last night. Pictures in the gallery.
Steve McClaren moved a step closer to the exit door when England drew nil all with Israel last night and David Beckham moved a step closer to a recall. England are third in their qualifying group, three points behind second placed Russia and five points behind Croatia with seven games remaining. This means that their qualifying campaign from this “easy” group is now somewhat shakey which in turn increases the likelihood that David Beckham may be called back into the squad for the qualifier against Estonia in June. Still a week is a long time in football and more than 2 months is a near eternity, so we will have to wait and see.
Finally, the Sunday People tabloid is reporting that David and Victoria Beckham will throw an american themed farewell party before heading to the US, full story here.
If he's recalled they'll expect him to save England and bitch if can't. I know he said he'd walk from the US to play for his country but I'm not so sure its a good idea. I think he'd just be made a scapegoat again
that dress is effen awful
I totally understand feeling cautious about Becks being recalled and the weight of expectations etc but Becks gets criticised whether he plays or not and he has been on the receiving end of so much baseless bitching over the years that he is probably about as close to immune to it as a person can get, given that in an ideal world all people would prefer to live without it. So I think regardless of what might or might not be said, I hope he gets a recall, even tho it's still a long shot, simply because it's what he really wants. It also happens to be what England really needs but I confess I am much more influenced by the fact that Becks clearly would love to be recalled than I am by anything else
Remember Michael Owen's interview about his year in Madrid when he talked about Becks handling the knocks he takes in the media…he said that it's like all of them, in the papers one day your on top the next your rubbish, they can "report" on every move you make, and half the time they have you someplace you've never heard of, if Becks and the rest hadn't learned to ignore it they would all have gone crazy by now.So I guess even though its a matter of extreme, we think of Becks because we care about him and there is SO much out there, but each of the top players knows the feeling–and they all step up and get on with it. I guess you wouldn't be able to play sports if you couldn't believe that each game or match might be the one that changes a losing streak. (OR that you couldn't overcome poor management!).
Diane, are you saying that all "the top players" know how to ignore the criticism and just step up and get on with it? Cos if you are I'd have to disagree with you. I think some get used to it to a certain degree and some like Becks use the critics as a source of motivation cos they want to prove them wrong but it definitely affects them and very few including Becks completely ignore it. In just his last interview which was on here, he refers to people saying his legs are gone, he knows what is being said and he didn't look thrilled about it. Likewise Lampard admits to getting down to it and poor Wazza is very easily psyched, he's young and will grow out of it but he doesn't have the ability to ignore very much at all as yet. Sportsmen are people, people don't have the ability to just ignore the things people say about them, they can learn to cope and adapt to it but sport is at least 80% mental and stuff said about players does effect them. Many sports people never achieve their full potential because of the mental aspects of the game constraining their technical ability, it's called choking and many great players and teams choke, not everyone steps up and gets on with it all the time.
Syd! I need your email address so I can send you my comments to edit before I post them, you always catch me immediately when I am wrong
!!! Though yours is a great note for everyone to read, so I'm ok with instigating it. Ignore is impossible–just thinking of Becks' narration in the Adidas ad. I guess handling it is a better way to describe what those who survive the onslaught, and I recall that many don't, figure out to do in order to keep going. It continues to amaze me, what Becks can use for motivation, and what he can laugh at. And in the remote event he has been able to, I haven't recovered from the mass marketing of allegations regarding his private life. I can't imagine how any public figures weather that. Hopefully most players can find some perspective (as Owen said) from the sheer absurdity in a massive number of the sillier stories. In the best case, I'm sure it takes time to build up any kind of thick skin, and in all cases I shouldn't have been so glib with the term ignore.Maybe it was wishful thinking after reading the weekend's papers before and after the England match. 
OHHHHH, it's a dress.. I thought she was still wearing a bathing towel.. come on people, she looks horrible now doesn't she.. I feel sorry for him