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06 Feb 17
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If this public persona is so wrong then what about all the other celebrity muppets ?
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/the-guardian-view-on-david-beckham-embarrassed-more-than-harassed
he latest batch of emails from online whistleblower Football Leaks cast David Beckham, one of England’s most liked and talented footballers, in a particularly poor light.
While Mr Beckham says the missives are doctored, the impression garnered by any reader is of a vain, jealous, greedy man whose charitable work is part of a PR campaign to get a gong. In one particularly resonant phrase he chides his PR man for suggesting he put in a million dollars to help the UN.
“If there was no fund, the money would be for me. This **cking money is mine,” comes the response.
It strikes a chord – not just because the apparent entitlement makes it so funny; also because the cupidity it reveals is a wonderful illustration of why we can’t rely on charity and benevolence to replace the welfare state, or even to prop it up.
There’s a question too about Football Leaks: is it a group of tech-savvy fans, driven by a need to expose malpractice and hypocrisy or is it a darker prank by trolls? The evidence seems to be the former.
The organisation has exposed controversial player-investment businesses that were later banned; revealed Real Madrid paid more for Gareth Bale than for Cristiano Ronaldo, the club’s talismanic forward who is touchy about the idea he’s not the greatest; and claimed top stars avoided paying tax on millions of dollars of earnings by channelling the money abroad.
Being embarrassed, Mr Beckham, appears the least of your worries.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/the-guardian-view-on-david-beckham-embarrassed-more-than-harassed
he latest batch of emails from online whistleblower Football Leaks cast David Beckham, one of England’s most liked and talented footballers, in a particularly poor light.
While Mr Beckham says the missives are doctored, the impression garnered by any reader is of a vain, jealous, greedy man whose charitable work is part of a PR campaign to get a gong. In one particularly resonant phrase he chides his PR man for suggesting he put in a million dollars to help the UN.
“If there was no fund, the money would be for me. This **cking money is mine,” comes the response.
It strikes a chord – not just because the apparent entitlement makes it so funny; also because the cupidity it reveals is a wonderful illustration of why we can’t rely on charity and benevolence to replace the welfare state, or even to prop it up.
There’s a question too about Football Leaks: is it a group of tech-savvy fans, driven by a need to expose malpractice and hypocrisy or is it a darker prank by trolls? The evidence seems to be the former.
The organisation has exposed controversial player-investment businesses that were later banned; revealed Real Madrid paid more for Gareth Bale than for Cristiano Ronaldo, the club’s talismanic forward who is touchy about the idea he’s not the greatest; and claimed top stars avoided paying tax on millions of dollars of earnings by channelling the money abroad.
Being embarrassed, Mr Beckham, appears the least of your worries.
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^ The Guardian view on David Beckham: embarrassed more than harassed
Editorial piece. |
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Think he is Teflon and the storm will eventually pass. Best to laugh it off, he is human after all.
Selfish considerations understandable to a point, no one really believed he was without ego did they? A nice guy, not Mother Teresa after all, did he ever pruport to be?. |
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just wondering when he's going to get his whole face tattoed
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4194138/Former-footballer-Sir-David.html David Beckham was told to sort out his taxes if he wanted a knighthood, it can be revealed. Insiders confirmed there was effectively horse-trading between a Whitehall committee and the superstar's advisers. Beckham and his PR machine have been left reeling after Friday's release of 18.6million emails and documents hacked by the Football Leaks website from the servers of Doyen Global, the firm run by the ex-footballer's PR chief Simon Oliveira. It emerged last night that Beckham was on the verge of becoming Sir David in the 2014 New Year's Honours list until a secret 'red flag' warning from HM Revenue and Customs sunk his nomination. Beckham's involvement in an alleged tax avoidance scheme had scuppered his hopes. The Honours Committee had already agreed that Beckham's nomination – almost certainly proposed by his PR advisers – was well 'merited'. But then came a routine check of his tax affairs. A source close to the committee told the Mail: 'HMRC gives us a flag – it's red, amber or green. Beckham was a red. His taxes were the problem.' The leaked emails include a number of bombshells and series of sweary-rants. In one the ex-England captain allegedly claims singer Katherine Jenkins, 36, hit back got an OBE for ‘singing at the rugby and going to see the troops plus taking coke. F***ing joke’. In response her manager, Professor Jonathan Shalit told The Sun: ‘I say Katherine was awarded an OBE for her services to music and charity. ‘With regards to the taking of coke which Katherine has courageously publicly admitted with great honesty — this was when she was in her early 20s still studying, over a decade before she was awarded her OBE and started her recording career. The former footballer, 41, was one of dozens of wealthy celebrities who invested in the controversial Ingenious Media scheme to fund movies and reduce investors' personal tax liability. HMRC labelled the scheme a tax avoidance vehicle. It is understood the Honours Committee then entered into an extraordinary dialogue with Team Beckham to 'sort out' the issue, raising the suggestion that high-profile individuals can be told what they need to do to get a knighthood. Beckham does not appear to have appreciated the attempt to help him. The leaked emails reveal that when he found out he had been passed over in 2013, the ex-England captain denounced the committee members as 'a bunch of c***s' who were 'unappreciative' of his national-treasure status. He branded the honours system 'a f***ing joke'. The former England football may have been a victim of a £1million blackmail plot over hacked emails, it was claimed last night. The messages were reportedly accessed after criminals - thought to be using Russian servers - hacked documents from the sports agency run by his spokesman Simon Oliveira. |
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shows hos stupid is he not to assume the email would not be leaked. even had it nit been hacked any disgruntled employee could and would have leaked it.
he obviously needs to a lot more brown nosing with william. let's just become a republic after lizzie goes and banish this medieval BS to the history books. |
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like other awards for the becks cant they make a gong up out of kitchen foil,get brooklyn to present it, tap him with a sword and the kids and vic call him sir,if they dont already
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David Beckham’s PR machine obtained an injunction to hush up the embarrassing emails.
His team hired an expensive firm of lawyers to gag The Sunday Times from publishing them last year. Yesterday the newspaper printed a box on its front page saying: ‘The Sunday Times has been gagged by an injunction preventing it from reporting details about a celebrity’s personal and professional life. The newspaper is in legal proceedings.’ However, the emails cache was also leaked to a series of European websites, which began publishing them last week. By Friday night, when The Sun newspaper was preparing to publish them in Britain, Beckham’s team appear to have thrown in the towel. They did not seek another injunction. A source close to the star suggested the ‘genie was out of the bottle’ by that stage, and the information was ‘all over Europe’. The source added: ‘It may be embarrassing, but it is not seriously damaging. People will still look at him and think he is a fundamentally good bloke.’ They demanded one million euros - almost £900,000 - or they would pass on the material they had acquired, according to the Daily Mirror. The hackers went to Doyen Sports, which are part of Mr Oliveria's Doyen Global agency based in Portugal. They sent an email and attempted to 'blackmail' the business team - who called the police at the beginning of 2016. A source told the paper: 'They said we have all this information and you have to pay up. It was blackmail, pure and simple. 'The investigation has been going on behind the scenes for some time and involved several prominent companies. 'The hack wasn't targeted at David at all – it was very much a fishing expedition but David has been caught in the crossfire.' The revelation came as: - Team Beckham said he had spoken in the 'heat of the moment' and was just a 'normal person' who was 'extremely disappointed' at being passed over for a knighthood; - Police were called in to investigate the 'Beckileaks' email hack; - It emerged he once demanded a private jet to appear on the BBC; - The emails revealed Beckham allegedly got involved in the Scottish independence referendum to boost his chances of a knighthood; - Katherine Jenkins hits back after Becks email says her OBE was a 'f*****g joke'. Beckham, wife Victoria and eldest son Brooklyn yesterday put on a show of unity, posting photos to social media, including one showing the father of four cuddling his daughter Harper. But Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan wrote on Twitter: 'RIP Brand Beckham... We can forget about 'Sir David Beckham' ever happening.' |
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^ DM
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Total narcissist with everything calculated and done for effect.
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Wow, just shows how gullible some folk are to think that all his charity work didn't have an ulterior motive.
Brand Beckham is the only thing that concerns him & his missus. |
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doesnt like blackmailing but see,s nothing wrong in coluding with fancy lawyers in extravagant tax avoidance schemes,depends where your moral compass lands i suppose,if the blackmailers are outing thieving billionaires paying fortunes to avoid tax,maybe they should be knighted,
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Sir Alex (pun intended) had his measure years ago
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Wa it becks who got away with speeding, his fancy lawer saying he thought he was being followed
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BY THE TAXMAN
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Yup, jamesdean, Sir Alex wanted team players.
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cd a been someone
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Total narcissist with everything calculated and done for effect.
Absolutely like most slebs. Take the Hollywood anti trump crowd are no different |
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They are on the side of good though !
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Islamic terrorists?
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The Hollywood anti trump crowd ..... They are not Islamic terrorists
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"Unless it's a knighthood f*ck off."
A motto to live by imo. |