Comments on: Beckham: United Will Do Liverpool

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:28:28 +0000

Beckham Hasnt done nothing since? hasnt he? thats why hes already scored 2 banging goals for Ac Milan and just keeps giving brillant performances.

By: NickOGS20

NickOGS20 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:17:43 +0000

We were right to sell him, he was right to leave. Regardless of all that, the guy is United through and through (every bit as much as some random writing a blog on the internet taking digs at him) and a genuine United legend. Anyone failing to recognise just what a fantastic contribution he made to our success between ’96 and ’03 is ignorant, simple as.

By: unitedviews

unitedviews — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:43:07 +0000

OK thinking back, the problems people had with Beckham at the time were:

1. He seemed to do/care more for England than for United.
- Well this was a matter of necessity. United didn’t need him to drag them through games single-handed. He had to play more of a team role. England also made him captain (a role he was never going to dislodge from Keano at United) so he had more call to talk to the press about England than United.

2. He challenged St. Fergie.
- The way that SAF treated him… who wouldn’t? If you have any self-respect you’re going to fight back, aren’t you? Beckham’s problem was he didn’t do it sooner. He played the dutiful child a bit too long, unlike Keano who made it clear he was a a grown-up too right from the start.

3. He had been ‘worked out’ by defenders in Europe and didn’t have the necessary pace to be a ‘modern’ winger.
- Guilty… to some extent. He always craved a position in the middle of the park but wasn’t often trusted with it. Still, how many times have we missed what Beckham could offer? Ronaldo is one of the greats (and a proper ‘modern’ winger) but so many times I’ve wished he would cross the ball early like Beckham would have done. So many times I’ve wished it was Beckham stepping up to take the free kick. What’s more in the days before Carrick (while Scholes was suffering with double vision and Giggs spent half of every season on the treatment table) we had absolutely no one with the ability to hit accurate long range passes of the kind Beckham knocks out like shelling peas.

4. He was becoming more interested in image/celebrity than being a footballer
- Guilty again (although it’s easy to blame his missus). Certainly it turned United’s trips abroad into the David Beckham roadshow and that was getting really really annoying. No player is bigger than the club. He had more than a touch of the Lady Diana ‘look at me! look at me!’ syndrome to him. It’s only now that his playing days are numbered that the penny seems to be dropping with the guy that celebrity is a cheap thrill when compared to goals, medals or having your name sung.

We did the right thing in selling him but I see no reason to hate the guy or to doubt the sincerity of his affection for United. He is a childhood cockney red who grew to love not only the club but Manchester and Mancs. Beckham out; Ronaldo in – that was a great bit of business, but which one will still be supporting United in 20 years time? Don’t bet on Cristiano…

By: tony singh

tony singh — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:20:52 +0000

Legend .. True Red threw and threw .. still close my eyes and imagine those free kicks .. miss them always .. thanks for the memories and times you played in the RED of UNITED .. Legend .. T

By: Rob the Red

Rob the Red — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:48:06 +0000

I think Scott just likes to light the blue touch paper and stand back now and then!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:37:22 +0000

This is an opinion…. FACT. Idiots.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:36:15 +0000

Your not a proper united supporter Scott, and I think you know it. Your just a non-united hater.

By: mancaroon

mancaroon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:12:51 +0000

Beckham- Great United Player………yes, definatley.
United Legend…………….no. Fact. End Of.

By: Rob the Red

Rob the Red — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:57:57 +0000

Costas: Yes he did keep his mouth shut about the boot incident, but he made damn sure the press all got great photographs of his cut the next day and a picture they say is worth a thousand words! When will people realise Beckham says and does only what is best for brand Beckham and that is the top, bottom and middle of it. He does not posess a none commercial bone in his body and getting back on good terms with United is all about his future after he retires. Talk about giving 100% when he played at Old Trafford I agree…………….But in the later stages only if he had an England shirt on!

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:18:25 +0000

I agree mate, but I sometimes feel that people hold Beckham in too high esteem, and feel that some supporters believe that bad old Fergie forced him out, and the reality was that both felt his time with us was over for one reason or the other, and it was probably the best for both parties that he moved on.