David Beckham sprinkles some World Cup stardust

The commencement of the raising of the Nations' morale is evident!
hey - maybe Beck's extreme sort of short back & sides can be tidied up by a good barber from Pretoria for a more military look (hehe), or @ a sidewalk ibarbas-spaza for something more funky (hah!); but jeez, it can only be described as "styled beyond all comprehension".

"The most important thing is never forget where you come from."... which is all these kids can dream getting away from..... billion Rand boutique hotel you say?

And you still believe it is all about football?

It is BIG BIG business

My question is’ – where will the people of the townships be after the WC is over? The event only lasts a few weeks but billions have been spent on it. Pity that money can’t be spent to build the poor living in huts a house.

Never mind, Beckham will go home to and chose which one of his houses (mansions) he will live in for a while and count his millions.

FIFA will rape South Africa, and just for a start – the posters – was it 17 in total? Seven were created by South Africans – I thought the whole thing was about creating opportunities for SOUTH AFRICANS.

The sad thing is that most people will buy all the nonsense and Zuma will probably spend another R60 million on his house extension and also go for a media walk around the townships. Probably just before the next elections.

It IS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY – it is not sport anymore

Beckham, rather than an example to be upheld, is an indictment of the "beautiful game".

The vast majority of soccer's billions of followers originate from the underdeveloped third world and the more modest echelons in other countries. Intellectually vacuous, grossly overpaid, over-feted players such as him represent the avaricious nature of the sport. He and his trollop of a wife are vulgar and extravagant, visiting townships is simply a question of self-promotion giving himself the veneer of an ordinary sensitive soul who just happens to drive around in the most appallingly ostentatious cars, live in gilded palaces, and probably bathes in bleach upon leaving cesspits like Khayletisha. Only the naive would imagine that Beckham travelled to South Africa for nothing, it's all about 'dough', his presence at Kerzner's One and Only reveals far more about who's footing the bill, about the individual he is, than a half an hour spent in Cape Town's shameful poverty stricken settlements.

Ah Howard Phillips your invective highlights your envy. Just because your efforts have only raised a paltry sum don't knock someone whose efforts have raised more. And to call his wife a trollop. Your taste is a poor as your judgment.

Way past your sell by date you poser!

Money talks, bullshit walks. He only went to the USA because of his goofy wife and look at what a hash he made of it. I still fail to identify the pulling power. In terms of money, looks and beautiful wives, there are hundreds like him in the professional ranks.