Beckham is thick

It has been with some amusement I read the prime minister of New Zealand, John Key said David Beckham is thick.  Being skilled at football does not include being intelligent, and in the UK there are few footy fans who would disagree with John Key's words.  The truth of the matter is Beckham is not the sharpest knife on the butcher's shelf, the brightest light bulb, shiniest coin in a pocket or the brightest star.  What he is however, is incredibly skilled at football and has pinpoint accuracy in his long ball.  The public support of hero status for footballers makes Beckham a star but he'll never score high on a Mensa test, unless he has some additional help form a personality who knows quite a little more.  Even if it happens to be Micky Mouse.  Then if you look at the Beckham stable in his choice of life partner, Victoria, then it is no surprise, because again she does not strike a light in a dim room..  She's known for her anorexia and being a member of the Spice Girls.  Her solo singing career has proved to be disastrous, because she can't sing.  Vick, does have a certain glamour about her, but wherever she goes and particularly whenever she is on TV she has an aura of stupid which hangs around like a fog in the big smoky of a 1950s industrial town.  Together they have made beautiful children with again disastrously chosen names.  This family will continue to be in the lime light for the foreseeable future in one capacity or another.  Be it as fund raisers for charity or as ambassadors for the UK, but don't ask them to open their mouths and talk, for it will be unimpressive.

Some footy fans may come to Becks defence, saying things like footy is a form of intelligence, it's a highly selected skill not a form of the smarts.  To get them confused is being a little optimistic, or even defensive of a very British celebrity.  David may be the nicest person in the world as well, but I doubt very much if has read many classic books or whether he could hold a decent conversation on politics.  I see him as coming from a Labour family background, self made rich man and then voting Tory just because he is rich, not because he could argue or debate.  You're unlikely to ever see him on Question Time or being interviewed on the Today programme. I'd put a ten pound note on it.  Then if you did hear him on TV or on the radio ask yourself which David Beckham voice you are listening to.  For he has since had voice coaching to try and removed the high pitched annoying tone he once had.  OK too looks glamorous but like any model you see who has the look, when they are given an opportunity to speak Thick is a term which would be used in many cases.  John Key is right because he has actually met Beckham and spent some time in his presence, his opinion is based on actual experience.  So lets face it, it probably counts more than the opinions of those who haven't met Becks, including me.

I'd like to say football was a wonderful sport, but there is an old adage which never seems to die and will continue to live for the rest of eternity.  Football is a gentleman's game played by thugs, and Rugby is a thugs game played by gentlemen.  Don't let this though shade your opinion, for every person has to find a thing which holds passion in their life.  If your passion is footy and it makes you happy the world does not matter.  If your passion is to look good, but not know a word beyond three syllables hell what should it matter either?