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| Torontoist is a website about Toronto and everything that happens in it. It's edited by David Topping and Marc Lostracco, and published by Gothamist. ... |
Friday, May 16, 2008 --- 71 days ago http://feeds.gothamistllc.com/click.phdo?i=72025f2367d0bb1749f50189c2165533
Remember when David Beckham was supposed to make his Major League Soccer debut at BMO Field last year, then wasn't even on the substitute’s bench? Well, brace yourselves, transient sports fans: it’s about to happen again.
Beckham—who's since made his inaugural Canadian appearances in specially-arranged friendlies in Vancouver and Edmonton—was supposed to be in town May 31 along with the rest of the Los Angeles Galaxy, the team who signed him to one of the most obscene contracts in professional sports history. Beckham, however, was named to the England squad for a pair of international friendlies which bookend the Toronto date: one is in England, the other, curiously, is in Trinidad & Tobago. (The thought of the English national team arriving in Port of Spain, instead of preparing for Euro 2008, amuses us somewhat.) He could, in theory, make the Toronto FC game—but that would involve an awful lot of flying, and we doubt the Galaxy or the English Football Association would allow it.
Beckham’s inclusion in the England squad suggests that rumours of his demise have been greatly exaggerated. (It’s either that or an indication that the new England manager, Fabio Capello, is as utterly clueless as his predecessor, Steve McLaren—but we digress.) Yet while it’s likely his skills haven’t deteriorated nearly as much as we’ve been led to believe, we’re still not sure where we stand on the whole Beckham experiment ( a point we also m ... |
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