It’s slightly predictable that the pro-Beckham contingent have started to put-down the Olympic football tournament as meaningless. Is that so? 90,000 people watched the 2008 final, 104,000 the 2000 climax and 101,000 the 1984 final. Olympic football is not a dead duck – it’s just that Great Britain has not played a part in it […]
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Beckham’s exclusion – timely and appropriate
David Beckham will not be leading TeamGB in the 2012 Olympic football tournament. This is absolutely the right decision by manager Stuart Pearce, despite the inevitable media circus that will surround the former England captain in the aftermath of the announcement. Beckham is 37, he plays in the US – hardly a premier football tournament […]