Brian Reade's column: Beckham's image wrongs.Byline: Brian Reade Brian Reade is an award-winning writer who has two weekly opinion columns, one on sport, in the Daily Mirror. He is a left-wing republican with very outspoken views, and has interviewed many well known people, including Mohammed Ali. A FEW sporting puzzlers to chew over this week. This image rights business. Now that David Beckham  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. is selling his
name to that leading outfitter of the leather-gloved Rover driver, Marks
& Spencer, can Manchester United demand pounds 20,000 a week off him
for damaging their image?
Following our unprecedented success at the Winter Olympics can we expect more and more young sportsmen to turn to the ice? Will darts players for example, start putting lumps of it in their treble treble, highest part in choral music, thus corresponding in pitch to soprano, but associated with the voice of a boy or a girl. The term appeared in 15th-century English polyphony, probably as an anglicization of the Latin triplum, vodkas? Then there's Bobby Robson's complaint to money-grabbing TV companies that screening their Everton game at 2.30pm on Good Friday Good Friday, anniversary of Jesus' death on the cross. According to the Gospels, Jesus was put to death on the Friday before Easter Day. Since the early church Good Friday has been observed by fasting and penance. might tire them out and ruin their chances of this year's Premiership. What about Newcastle's money- grabbing decision to make the players spend all summer trying to win the InterToto Cup. Isn't that going to knacker knacker operator of a knackery. them for next year's Premiership? And finally...the latest coin attack at Millwall. Seeing that the only other money-throwing incidents in England this season have been at Arsenal, Spurs and Fulham, is this the clearest example yet that the North/South poverty divide is for real? CAPTION(S): BECKHAM: On your Marks |
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