Phil Ball: “there has never been anyone like David Beckham in Britain before. The whiny-voiced, merely above-average soccer player from the provincial county of Essex took over from Diana, Princess of Wales, in the aftermath of her death, creating a new pool of emotion into which the English could dive deep. Right time, right place. Beckham, like Diana before him, looked very good and said very little - the perfect sort of person onto which a willing public could displace its collective fantasies. And so Beckham, a freer social agent than any member of royalty, eventually grew into a phenomenon that surpassed even Diana.”
David Beckham
The Whiny-Voiced, Merely Above-Average Soccer Player
August 7th, 2004Beckham in Slate
June 19th, 2003Slate on Beckham, complete with two references to the, er, female genital area.
Bend It Like Beckham
April 21st, 2003Watched Bend It Like Beckham at the theatre.
Funny movie with a great soundtrack.
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