Becks and Brown

(photo courtesy of BBC news)


Ah, my two favorite topics in the world, footie and politics. These two things put together make me as giddy as my friend Josh would get if he was at the World Series of Poker final table, making the nuts on the river. These are my two specialties, so when they show up in the news together, I have to check my knickers.

So, I get up this morning and check my Google feeds and I see that Beckham was talking to Gordon Brown today. This caused me to raise an eyebrow and I clicked on the link and read the article. As I scanned over the BBC story I found myself damn near in a tickle fit. Before I finished reading it I zoomed over to Soccernet to see what the people that lick Beck's boots had to say about the meeting.

David Beckham, the man who was touted to bring life back to American soccer, met with Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of England, to discuss various things. Brown is interested in football according to Becks and apparently Beckham was the only person that 10 Downing could muster at this time of the year. That fits really, all the wonderful English players are in the middle of real games and are training for the Champs League and international friendlies right now. What is Becks doing? Training with Arsenal. And for those of you that are following the Prem at this point in time, you are saying to yourself, "holy shit, Becks training with Arsenal. Oh God, he's going to destroy people in the MLS this year." Yeah, what most people, BBC and Soccernet included, never report is that Becks is training with the second squad. He is not fit enough to play around with the big boys anymore.

Anyways, Becks and Brown talked about football for about an hour and apparently Brown will be visiting Beck's academy on Thursday to see how things are going and he has expressed interest in working Beckham's academy into the national scene with the schools. I think Brown is doing this as a favor to someone or he's doing it for the photo op. Maybe Becks thinks that if he comes home to talk to the gaffer of the country, that when Cappello starts naming squads, the PM will give the Italian a call to get ol' David back on the squad. There is also speculation that Beckham will be the World Cup ambassador for England. If he ends up doing this, then the Galaxy can expect Becks to be broken for the rest of his contract. Becks returns home and soccer dies in America again until Josey Altidore goes away for a few years and comes home and starts to score goals with his eyes closed. Happy footies all.