Piers Morgan is spot on

[Newport]

Not the headline you'd expect, but he really is right about this one, and anyone thinking otherwise are extremely naive. Beckham even said in the interview after the game he had no idea what the green and gold scarves were about.

 

David Beckham's green and gold Manchester United stunt was a load of tosh - the only cause he truly supports is himself | Mail Online

 

Touching, wasn’t it? Watching that loyal, diehard United hero David Beckham getting the roaring welcome so thoroughly deserved of Manchester’s prodigal son brought tears to the uncynical eye.

But not, I’m afraid, to the cynical like mine.

Beckham keeps telling us United is, and always has been, the only club for him. And the inhabitants of Old Trafford seem to happily go along with this tosh.

When the reality is that he walked out on United at the peak of his powers for the riches of Real Madrid, then walked out on Madrid for the even greater riches of Hollywood, and now cheats on LA Galaxy whenever he can with AC Milan, purely to keep himself in the World Cup frame, where England glory could bring the greatest riches of all.

Compared with genuinely loyal United heroes like Giggs, Scholes and Neville, Beckham’s been a treacherous, money-grabbing, club-hopping, fame-hungry, egotistical little weasel who likes nothing better than making everything all about HIM.

Self-publicist: Beckham dons the green and gold at Old Trafford, causing Piers to choke on his caviar

And nothing personified this more than when he swooped to pick up the green-and-gold anti-Glazer protest scarf and wrapped it round his tattooed neck. The crowd roared. There he was, the most loyal man in football, their Becksy, showing the world he was united with United fans in their fury at foreign ownership.

Because the very last thing David Beckham would ever want to associate himself with is rich, fatcat Americans exploiting soccer for pure commercial gain. Which is why he currently resides in Los Angeles, choosing to play pub football over proper football because rich, fat-cat Americans line his Armani pockets with millions of dollars to exploit soccer for pure commercial gain.

Of course, as David explained afterwards, he wasn’t actually supporting the protest, nor trying to interfere in the running of Manchester United.

 

Nothing could be further from his massively cerebral mind. He just liked the colours of the scarf because they used to be United’s original colours.

What a load of old Goldenballs. Let’s face some harsh facts here, Becksy old son. You’re not the best footballer in the world. In fact, given you can’t actually get into the AC Milan starting line-up, you’re not even the 11th-best player in a shockingly mediocre side.

But you ARE the greatest self-publicist the game has seen and you knew exactly what you were doing when you swooped on that glinting symbol of disloyalty to the Glazers. For weeks, you’ll have been monitoring the mounting furore and planning exactly the image you would communicate to the world. It’s what you do best.

And you seized the moment in typically self-adulatory Beckham style. Waiting until the pitch was empty, standing like Emperor Nero, alone in the amphitheatre, milking the applause in the eager way a farmer milks a particularly well-uddered Friesian cow, then dramatically pausing to pick up the scarf. Thus quite deliberately pushing the much more deserving Wayne Rooney off the headlines (I was only surprised he didn’t leap on Rooney’s back when he scored, to share the photographic credit — a crafty move that has served Beckham well over the years).

It was the most perfectly choreographed stunt since Sacha Baron Cohen parascended, as his Austrian fashion reporter character Bruno, on to Eminem’s lap during last year’s MTV awards. And just as fake.

The Glazers are big boys and I don’t have much truck with the way they’ve allowed United to build up such potentially ruinous debt. But the hypocrisy of David ‘United ’til I die’ Beckham definitely moved me.

To extreme nausea.

[Kennys_spell]

Not the headline you'd expect, but he really is right about this one, and anyone thinking otherwise are extremely naive. Beckham even said in the interview after the game he had no idea what the green and gold scarves were about.

 

David Beckham's green and gold Manchester United stunt was a load of tosh - the only cause he truly supports is himself | Mail Online

 

 

So let me get this right - the Man Utd supporting David Beckham (and he truly is as there is plenty of video of him in their kit as a youngster) is supposed to be completely oblivious to the current state of the club, the feeling of the fans and the depth of feeling surrounding the owners - and furthermore he saw a scarf, co-incidentaly in EXACTLY the colours of Newton heath, the team that spawned the monolith that is now Man Utd and didn't know what the scarf represented but STILL picked it up and put it on in front of the fans?

 

Really?

[Section_31]

Piers Morgan is a human turd.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Whilst Piers Morgan is an utter cunt, it's still good publicity for their fight against their owners.

[Boomshakalaka]

Piers Morgan is spot on to be voted cunt of the year.

 

The man is a wally, a cock snifer and a tumour on the tumour of this world's insanity.

 

A man most probably writing out of resentment that Becks would not appear on his show.

 

His opinions to many are worthless and rightly so.

 

How it should have read: Beckham once again play's it right. He has shown his support to United's plight and those that were there know he joined them for the briefest of seconds in a move to undermine their club's ownership. He can even deny any wrong doing as not knowing yet they all know the truth and that is act and then play dumb. He has further reinforced his position as a club legend.

 

Good on him I know a lot of our fans would love some of our ex-players to do the same for us. It is a shame that those players were not paid enough to now hanker after a job within our hallowed walls. If they were multi-millionaires I bet they would be speaking out now. My excuse for our legends of yesteryear is that they cannot be seen to be biting the hand that may one day feed them.

 

Anyway Piers you would be a useless troglodite and are even worse human - why dontcha shuddaupyaface?

[Boomshakalaka]

If I were his mother I would have sold him to the gypsies for use as a hare to train their lurchers with.

[Sarb24]

Morgan is a dick. I'm indifferent on beckham don't hate the guy

 

but morgan is a turd. Beckham probably turned down an appearance on morgans show

[Liquid football]

Why is Piers Morgan?

 

 

That's what i'd ask god.

[The Robot Tank]

Morgan is a dick. I'm indifferent on beckham don't hate the guy

 

but morgan is a turd. Beckham probably turned down an appearance on morgans show

 

Was just gonna say that. Who the fuck is he to talk about any kind of footy anyway, even if it is the mancs?

 

And just FYI, Piers Morgan is never right. I wouldn't trust him to tell me the fukin time. Cunt.

[Section_31]

I think our ex players are a disgrace for not being more active to be honest. All you get out of them is 'shanks this' and 'bob that'. They make money out of talking about such things at after-dinner speeches, yet are betraying everything both men stood for by keeping their council. Can you IMAGINE what Shanks, a socialist, would make of the yanks???

 

But then, our ex-player base has always been inferior to the mancs on that score in all honesty. Their former players are in awe of the club, ours by and large can't wait to stick the boot in. Only Aldo and Thommo fall into the former catagory IMO.

 

It's a shame Al isn't a red.

 

 

Out of order, I show you out of order. You don't know what out of order is, Mr. Hicks. I'd show you, but I'm too old, I'm too tired, I'm too fuckin' blind. If I were the man I was five years ago, I'd take a FLAMETHROWER to this place! Out of order? Who the hell do you think you're talkin' to? I've been around, you know? There was a time I could see. And I have seen. Fans like these, younger than these, their hearts torn out, their wallets ripped off. But there isn't nothin' like the sight of an amputated spirit. There is no prosthetic for that. You think you're merely sending these splendid fans back home to Liverpool with their tail between their legs? But I say you are... executin' their souls!

 

You hurt these boys, you're gonna be red bums, the lot of ya. And Tom, George, Tom Jnr, wherever you are out there, FUCK YOU TOO!

[RJ Fan club]

I just like to echo what others have said about Piers Morgan. He is an utter cunt.

 

I hate Jeremy Clarkson very very very much, but when I read recently that he had punched Morgan in the chops, I actually thought of adding him to my Christmad Card list.

[torahboy]

Morgan, while editor of the Manc, gave Beckham all the coverage he could require; from the thick twat wearing sarongs to him getting engaged to the cadaver that became his wife. Morgan, if anyone, should know that Beckham is a media whore as it was he who helped the vacuous twat in his quest for celebrity status. Morgan is correct in the criticism of Beckham's empty gesture but he was one of the cunts who lived off Beckham performing similarly pointless acts in the past. Pair of twats.

[Juan Galonso]

Just to redress the balance a little on Piers Morgans side, Morgan while he was editor of the Mirror to be fair to him was actually responsible for Mirror's 'The Real Truth' headline in 1996 when the Jimmy McGovern Docu-Drama was gaining publicity momentum for Hillsborough. He'd been given a copy of it prior to it's airing and Brian Reade says Morgan watched it in his office, wept and pledged to do whatever he could to help.

 

Morgan went on to urge every reader to watch the Hillsborough documentry and the followed it with petitions and days of coverage. He sent Brian Reade to Liverpool City Council to tell them that the Mirror would be behind any moves for a fresh inquiry. I remember for days after the airing of the documentary The Mirror were hounding Duckinfield who was of course then retired on a full pension. Part of the Mirrors backing for us over Hillsborough was probably to stick it to The Sun but all the same, at least Morgan tried to do something while he was editor at the Mirror.

 

Unfortunately all we got was a scrutiny rather than a new inquiry but at least Morgan and the Mirror tried. Fair play to him for that much.

[Section_31]

Just to redress the balance a little on Piers Morgans side, Morgan while he was editor of the Mirror to be fair to him was actually responsible for Mirror's 'The Real Truth' headline in 1996 when the Jimmy McGovern Docu-Drama was gaining publicity momentum for Hillsborough. He'd been given a copy of it prior to it's airing and Brian Reade says Morgan watched it in his office, wept and pledged to do whatever he could to help.

 

Morgan went on to urge every reader to watch the Hillsborough documentry and the followed it with petitions and days of coverage. He sent Brian Reade to Liverpool City Council to tell them that the Mirror would be behind any moves for a fresh inquiry. I remember for days after the airing of the documentary The Mirror were hounding Duckinfield who was of course then retired on a full pension. Part of the Mirrors backing for us over Hillsborough was probably to stick it to The Sun but all the same, at least Morgan tried to do something while he was editor at the Mirror.

 

Unfortunately all we got was a scrutiny rather than a new inquiry but at least Morgan and the Mirror tried. Fair play to him for that much.

 

I'm a bit more cynical than you mate and think that was probably done because the S*n is and was always the Mirror's main rival. I imagine the Mirror is still the best-sold red top on Merseyside.

[Hoddy]

Just to redress the balance a little on Piers Morgans side, Morgan while he was editor of the Mirror to be fair to him was actually responsible for Mirror's 'The Real Truth' headline in 1996 when the Jimmy McGovern Docu-Drama was gaining publicity momentum for Hillsborough. He'd been given a copy of it prior to it's airing and Brian Reade says Morgan watched it in his office, wept and pledged to do whatever he could to help.

 

Morgan went on to urge every reader to watch the Hillsborough documentry and the followed it with petitions and days of coverage. He sent Brian Reade to Liverpool City Council to tell them that the Mirror would be behind any moves for a fresh inquiry. I remember for days after the airing of the documentary The Mirror were hounding Duckinfield who was of course then retired on a full pension. Part of the Mirrors backing for us over Hillsborough was probably to stick it to The Sun but all the same, at least Morgan tried to do something while he was editor at the Mirror.

 

Unfortunately all we got was a scrutiny rather than a new inquiry but at least Morgan and the Mirror tried. Fair play to him for that much.

 

I've read Morgan's book, and in it he mentioned how he was asked to contribute to a book whereby semi-famous wannabes write a tribute about their heroes/icons. His contribution to said book?

 

Kelvin Mackenzie.

 

I think this was totally to stick it to The Sun.

[Trucker Paddy]

I like Piers for the reason Juan Galonso was saying, Brian Reade documents it in his book. But it was also Piers who gave the go ahead for the beckham dartboard in the mirror after the 1998 World Cup.

[lostinspace1970]

In a way, what Beckham thinks or doesn't think doesn't really matter. It's all publicity and goes to inform and potentially mobilise people to their cause

 

In relation to Morgan, I find it hard to see that he has any redeeming qualities. I feel that journos generally can alter their position if not flip flop entirely to suit their current agenda. Morgan has been responsible for some pretty nasty things in his time

[Strontium]

I guess Beckham must have turned the little turdbag down for one of his tawdry ITV interviews, then. Ha ha ha.

[Juan Galonso]

He is a very smarmy little Englander if ever there was one and the sacking from the Mirror was coming a mile off after the fake hostages in Iraq which was a despicable piece of journalism.

 

Who knows what the real reasons were for his support to the Hillsborough cause really were back in the mid 90's but I am glad he allowed his paper to take it that far.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Piers Morgan is a human turd.

 

I'll tell you what. When a Jedi is right, he's fucking right.

[Red Mist]

This isn't the first time Morgan has written such hate-filled bile towards footballers in his shitty column in the Mail. Why the fuck he gets a column in the sports pages is anyone's guess.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

He is a very smarmy little Englander if ever there was one and the sacking from the Mirror was coming a mile off after the fake hostages in Iraq which was a despicable piece of journalism.

 

Who knows what the real reasons were for his support to the Hillsborough cause really were back in the mid 90's but I am glad he allowed his paper to take it that far.

 

 

And I'll also add, when a muslim terrorist is right, he's fucking right.

[cracker]

I guess Beckham must have turned the little turdbag down for one of his tawdry ITV interviews, then. Ha ha ha.

 

Probably right.

 

A bit ago I heard him talk about how many interviews these days are shallow...etc and he longed for the days of proper interviews when people got a long time and you got to know them a bit - hence the houir long or so length of his shows. Agreed.

 

I was then looking forward to some decent guests and interviews back to the hey day of Parkinson but then you see the type of people he chooses to interview - not one of them is of any interest to me at all and all are shallow self publicising so called celebrities - like David Beckham in fact so I would not be at all surprised if PM had tried to get him on the show.

 

The only surprise tho in that scenario is Beckham turning him down - as that would be the kind of thing David likes as it serves to promote brand Beckham - personally I am totally fed up of brand Beckham and have been for years.

[Torvald Utne]

morgan may be a cunt but he's a cunt speaking sense.

[Glass Kop]

Despite his friendship with that twat Mackenzie, I quite enjoyed his book.

In regards to Beckham, he's a self obssesed greedy cunt. Always has been, always will be.