Euro 2008 Failure & Global Warming-Blame it on Beckham

If you’re an England fan and still puzzled as to why you’re not booking your tickets to Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland, then Ms C. Mercer from Norwich who wrote to the Metro newspaper last week has established the reason why the Three Lions failed to make the tournament: 

‘Yet another shocking performance from England.  David Beckham should have never been allowed to collect his 100th cap after betraying the nation by failing to lead us to the European Championship.  England will never move on with the same players who have no pride in playing for their country and are only interested in their celebrity status and making huge wads of cash.’

Oh of course we should be blaming David Beckham!! Well he did BETRAY the whole country by being dropped by Steve McClaren for the first six Euro 2008 qualifying matches and only being recalled when England were in fourth position and when the England manager realised what a big mistake it was!!  It is of course Beckham’s fault that the whole team played poorly and that the manager was out of his depth…..

If you haven’t realised already, I disagree (just a bit!!) with this letter, blaming Beckham for England’s shortfall doesn’t really work, without his contribution England would have missed out on more tournaments than just Euro 2008.

But I’m sure as Ms. Mercer would say: With only 6 Premiership titles, 2 FA cup medals, 1 UEFA Champions League, 1 La Liga title, winning PFA young player of the year, captaining England at major competitions and winning 100 caps, what has under achieving David Beckham ever achieved? (apart from betraying all England fans?)

Other events we should be blaming David Beckham for:

1.  The chaos occurring at the new Heathrow Terminal 5 - he is without doubt responsible for the 28,000 pieces of luggage that have yet to be returned to passengers.

2.  Global warming- he’s the reason why the polar ice caps are melting

3.  And the global credit crunch- he betrayed us all by lending out money to people who would never be able to pay it back

If there are any other things you would like to blame Beckham for then feel free to e-mail them and I’ll add them here.