Good Luck Becks!
David Beckham may make his MLS competitive debut against DC United this evening at RFK Stadium in Washington DC. Although, on the other hand he may not. Let's wish him good luck either way! If he does play let's hope it goes well and doesn't make his injury worse and if he doesn't play let's hope that people will understand and that his ankle is better soon! The Sun are predicting that he will play for 6 minutes but their predictions are usually hit or miss at best.
(Source) The latest word last night from Frank Yallop was "The ultimate decision will come down to David... We'll see how he is tomorrow. I'm not going to put him out there to re-injure it. We'll put him out there when he is fit and ready to go. He's getting close. We won't force it. He knows his own body and he'll let us know if he is ready to go."
England Manager, Steve McClaren will probably be at tonight's game, The Telegraph reports that David Beckham has already spoken with him regarding his fitness, saying, "I spoke to Steve a couple of days ago... We spoke about how my fitness was and how my ankle was. But whether it's worth him coming over to see me for just 10 minutes I'm not so sure."
The match will be shown live at 7PM ET on ESPN 2. Fans in the UK and some parts of Europe can catch match highlights on Sky 442 - ESPN Classic, more details here.
posted by rpm at 4:02 AM
14 Comments:
personally, i want to see him play at 100%. 3 days off of, "i can only run straight" is not hiim at full speed. so, i hope he sits it out, and waits until he is healed, not just feeling better.
that said, i wish him luck if he does. i'll be watching. i'm glad mclaren has made the trip, if only to talk to everyone. i think there will most certainly be more england games in his future. i look forward to those.
5:09 AM
I get a really strong vibe that he is going to play for 10 minutes tonight, to relieve some of the pressure on him. The trouble is then the fans in New England will expect him to play - but judging by the photos we are seeing - he is not fully recovered and he might not be able to play on the artificial surface in New England, so then they will be frustrated and on it goes.
I find Yallops words that the final decision is David Beckham's bizarre. Seriously? What is that? The club doesn't have doctors? It's just all so tragically unprofessional. He should be saying, I'll speak with the player, trainers, medical staff and let you know my squad list tomorrow.
I don't have words any more. Well at least I have run out of polite ones I hope just hope he comes through all this unscathed
5:26 AM
I am a bit worried too Anna this whole situation is so difficult for him and I feel they should be saying the final decision is the doctors or the clubs or the coaches. They may mean well and they mean to be supportive but it does place all the blame for him playing or not on his head. Good Luck David You take care of you!
6:44 AM
i feel THE EXACT SAME WAY!!! i thought where are the doctors? we all know players will put themselves out there, when they are not ready. where are the people getting paid, to say, NO, you're not ready? i don't how big of a name the person is, where is this medical staff? i'm running out of words myself.
we are back to, he might play, he might not. it's RIDICULOUS. absolutely ridiculous. and i agree, should it become more aggrevated, we have to sit through the next bit of fans saying, he just played in DC.
David is CLEARLY wincing in pictures from practice, and they have yet to have the guts to say definitively that he won't play. im over it. and like you have really run out of polite things to say.
i can't recall a star player's injury handled this poorly before. they've done this wrong from the beginning, and just when i thought they were getting it together, i find out they're really not.
6:57 AM
I don't think they've handled the situation great but not as bad as some people feel. The "will he or won't he play" game is annoying but I think they're doing that to retain some interest. IMO if they'd had definitively said he won't be playing for this period, more momentum in the public interest would have been lost than it already has.
Ultimately I hope he plays when he is really ready.
7:50 AM
I know, and we are all used to the Premiership where all the decisions are really up to the team doctors and the manager and not the players, the LA Galaxy seem to be putting it all on Beckham. The LA Galaxy should have realized that putting their doctor's words to the media would show that they are a professional and a top flight team but what they are doing to Beckham is really horrible.
Marie
8:18 AM
I've noticed in the US that the decision tp play is put to the players. When Dwayne Wade injured his shoulder last year the decision was left to him by the team and the media.
8:42 AM
scilla, I'm not referring to the "will he won't he" game as whilst as you say it's a little annoying, unnecessary and likely to aggravate affected ticket holders more rather than less, in the scheme of things it is the smallest problem.
They have already played him when he wasn't ready and that is what lies behind this refusal to say much about his injury.
They are amateurs, plain and simple this whole thing has been amateur hour. There media management skills are woeful. After they made the call to play a very unfit and injured David Beckham, placing him at risk, they have since chosen to hide behind him and that is the part that is especially unprofessional and unnecessary because the will he won't he dance could go on week in and week out and they could continue to say it's a game day decision every game and still say it is a club decision being contributed to by medical staff, trainers, the player and coach. That approach does not preclude maintaining "public interest" if that is the motivation. You don't hvae to say the final call is David Beckham's alone.
I think if you want to make a buck now and you don't care about next year you handle it the way they are but I think if you really want to build for the long-term you begin as you mean to go on.
Personally they blew all their credibility when he played July 21 as that tells me everything I need to know about what is driving their decisions.
8:54 AM
I agree their is definitely a credibility gap now as it's hard to know if the right decisions are being made for the right reasons since they played the lad against Chelski. You only had to read Landon Donovan's comment about it being a miracle that the lad was even able to play the 12 or so minutes that day to realise that he had no business being out there. I've got me fingers crossed that he can make it through this situation without any set backs.
10:37 AM
I know I'm gonna sound like a broken record, sry bout dat folks, but if Yallop hadn't spent weeks referring to David's injury as a sore ankle then it wouldn't look so bad when they say it's his final decision whether to play but what they're doing because they've never issued any diagnosis, prognosis medical report type thing is they're basically saying it's up to David Beckham whether he'll play with a sore ankle. Which makes him look really bad if he doesn't. Grrrrrr :-(
11:48 AM
The coverage of his injury with details about how and when he injured it have been showing up in media reports since the press conference in Toronto, Pru, so I think the word is out there a bit more now and hopefully more people understand so if he doesn't play tonight there will be a bit more tolerance :)
12:15 PM
I think you are too critical of LA Galaxy and he won't even start tonight.
3:22 PM
Anne we to you have problem with Google Translate therefore we are not we help in the translate post comment (we use also the dicttionary but the Google Translate to give we the largest one help , we hope that the problem disappears,otherwise becomes all more compicated) but we think to have understood that Galaxy has put the responsibility on the shoulders for David.This decision is not only its but above all of staff the doctor .It must be a hard moment for he(was accustomed to being managed from great team). We are near he with all the heart,more we cannot make.Good Luck Champion! If we have mistaken the translation we ask excuse the Galaxy. CIAO;Loredana,Samuele,Gabriel.
4:00 PM
well of course he didn't start he was always going to be a sub at most but considering he was limping before he even took the field and he was clearly nowhere near running at 100% I still think playing the lad for 20 minutes was very unwise and the LA Galaxy have a lot of work to do proving they are a good club with anything resembling good management in my book
12:16 AM
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