Beckham portrait vandalised at Royal Academy.A PHOTOGRAPHIC portrait of England captain David Beckham which features in an exhibition of pictures of the world's greatest living footballers has been defaced. The words ``You loosers'' was written in indelible red felt pen on the 5ft high picture of Beckham at the Royal Academy of Arts Royal Academy of Arts, London, the national academy of art of England, founded in 1768 by George III at the instigation of Sir William Chambers and Benjamin West. Sir Joshua Reynolds was the Academy's first president, holding the office until his death in 1792. in central London. The vandals spelt spelt Subspecies (Triticum aestivum spelta) of wheat that has lax spikes and spikelets containing two light-red kernels. Triticum dicoccon was cultivated by the ancient Babylonians and the ancient Swiss lake dwellers; it is now grown for livestock forage and used in baked ``loosers'' with a double ``o'' in a possible reference to Rebecca Loos, the woman who earlier this year claimed she had a torrid affair with the England captain. The words ``Beckham and Meier, you loosers'' were also scrawled on a wall opposite a portrait of Pele -in an apparent reference to the Swiss referee Urs Meier, who officiated during England's Euro 2004 quarter final defeat to Portugal and disallowed a last minute Sol Campbell goal. The Beckham portrait, worth pounds 7,500, was one of the most popular in the FIFA FIFA International Association Football Federation [French Fédération Internationale de Football Association] FIFA n abbr (= Fédération Internationale de Football Association) → FIFA f 100 exhibition, which was designed to celebrate the centenary of world football's governing body. It showed a T-shirted Beckham, 29, standing in a hotel corridor holding a football and was taken earlier this year by the Scandinavian Mark Hom, a leading portrait photographer. The England captain missed two penalties at Euro 2004 and came in for criticism for his performances. CAPTION(S): A Fifa gallery attendant flees the press after leaving with the defaced image of David Beckham |
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