Pop Culture: A name called Beckham
Jul 15, 2008 Sounds Like Pop
So I am sitting in the training room at work learning how to use a new system the office is implementing and I am, ahem, a bit faster than the rest main ‘cos I’ve been experimenting with the software from last week. Okay, action moment over.
Anyway, we are at the moment learning how to look for wire stories (as in wire news from agencies such as Reuters, AP, AFP and Bernama to name a few) and the new system has an amazing new search option (either that or I never knew how to do it using the old system).
So, the trainer decided to use the word “MALAYSIA” as a search criteria but since I am bosan with Malaysia news already, and don’t want to read anything more about Malaysia if I can help it, I decided to improvise.
I went with “Beckham”.
Only four stories came out but interestingly, one one was David or his former-Spice Girl wife Victoria. Sure, there were references to the football, sorry, soccer player but most are popular culture references and not about him personally, per se.
For example:
1. A Washington Post review of the movie Wanted makes a reference to him by saying “bending bullets like Beckham”.
2. A Los Angeles Times story talks about Bulgarian sumo wrestler Kotooshu and how he is referred to as the “David Beckham of sumo”.
3. One more LA Times story makes a reference to the movie Bend It Like A Beckham, which although named after him, had little to do with him, really.
The only story that was about David, also from Washington Post, is one about how little impact he is making in Washington. Boring stuff really.
Incidentally, all these stories were published in June, the first on June 12 and the last on June 27. Two weeks of silence? Gasp.
This post was not about Beckham, but maybe now it is … Might as well, since apparently no one else is writing about him (although I have to establish here that The Star only subscribes to selected sort of stories from selected agencies so it’s not an exhaustive list of all stories in the world).
:(
3.09pm Malaysian times (+8 GMT)
Tags: David Beckham, football, lat-wp, los angeles times, soccer, victoria, victoria beckham, washington post
Slavery!
Jul 11, 2008 People
Fifa President Sepp Blatter on the Ronaldo tug-of-war between Manchester United and Real Madrid:
“The important thing is we should also protect the player,” Blatter told Sky News.
“If the player wants to play somewhere else, then a solution should be found because if he stays in a club where he does not feel comfortable to play then it’s not good for the player and for the club.
“I’m always in favour of protecting the player and if the player, he wants to leave, let him leave.”
I think in football there’s too much modern slavery in transferring players or buying players here and there, and putting them somewhere,” - AFP
Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
1. Only 23 years old (Feb 5, 1985)
2. 2007 and 2008 English PFA Player of the Year
3. Signing fee to Manchester United in 2003: £12.24 million
4. April 2007: Ronaldo becaomes highest-paid player in Manchester United’s history - £120,000-a-week
5. Apparently dating Nereida Gallardo.
Niki says: I think I’d like to be a slave to.
12.15pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)
Tags: Cristiano Ronaldo, FIFA, football, manchester united, Nereida Gallardo, Real Madriad, Sepp Battler, soccer
Glory glory Man United!
Apr 30, 2008 News Breaks
Woot! I tried to stay up to catch it, watched a bit then found myself failing so didn’t watch the game. Read the Yahoo! play by play thingy this morning though - how exciting!
And Paul Scholes’ goal - woah! That’s vintage Scholesey!
BRING ON CHELSEA OR LIVERPOOL!
Tags: football, manchester united, soccer
