So clothes horse, gay icon and part-time footballer David Beckham is back in the England fold for next week’s soiree against France and rightly so we believe here at the Spurt.
Not that we Spurters are sentimentalists or anything, or indeed think the former England skipper has any real future with the squad, but let’s just get this 100th cap malarkey done and dusted so the team can move on, because frankly, it’s becoming distracting.
Credit where credit is due though, and in between the pant shoots and ill advised sarong flouting, the boy Dave’s done a great job for England over the years, skippering a team of woeful underachievers, always trying his nuts off for the team and on occasion, carrying the entire side on his shoulders..
There’s been many lows (elimination at every quarter final stage and not even qualifying for this summer) and quite a few highs (that wonder goal against Greece) but it would be churlish to deny him a century of England caps.
However the future of right midfield now looks sown up in the form of David Bentley and to a lesser extent Aaron Lennon and Sean Wright-Philips. So let’s get the boy Dave his 100th cap and pack him off to the States to spend the twilight of his career entertaining the Yanks. It’ll be a suitable end for a fine player who always had more than a touch of the Hollywoods.
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