David Beckham

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Not sure how long this thread will last for, but here goes.....

The Sun headline today is less than complimentary. I won't provide a link but basically Beckham avoided a speeding fine.

Is this the start of the backlash? It seems that the tide is turning and people are getting fed up of them (family as a whole).

Disclaimer: please don't write anything that will get you sued. I am not a journo TABLOID SCUM. just curious whether this is the start of the decline and fall.

Yes, I feel sorry for the younger kids. Please be kind. But it's odd how a family were lauded as The Best Thing Ever and now don't seem to be able to do right for doing wrong.

I don’t really see why it matters wetber harper was IVF- they’re no different from all the other celebs who have done the same

Agree with posters saying he may have already had points and been facing a ban. If that was the case he had two choices 1. Fight it and get negative press or 2. Get a ban and be vilified. Lesser of two evils.

It's long been a mystery to me how DB manages to maintain the image of a thoroughly decent family man and philanthropist at the same time as being a serial philander and tax dodger . Now speeding in a 40 limit put there to protect children. Maybe that will be it, but I doubt it. that PR machine is a powerful thing.

I enjoyed the argument about the fashion industry up thread. I'm tone deaf and don't "get" music. I like a nice picture but am too much of a philistine to understand "art". I do however see enormous value in well cut good quality clothes (no idea if that's what VB makes though!)

What.is the reference to a school teacher?

When they met, VB was by far the more successful and wealthier of the two. She doesn't need his money to support her business

There was a story about his affair with one of the kid's teachers some time ago Cantstop. I think the had a superinjunction but don't quote me on that.

You can't shag around so easily with a driver. One more person to blab.

I can't understand why they are still relevant. He was a very talented footballer but he's retired. She has coasted for years on the talent of others.

oh who else has decided to have sex selection??

Apparently practically everyone with boy/ girl twins

Rumoured Kim Kardashian with recent surrogate

Rumoured Khole too

The police will happily prosecute you on a technicality, so you are entitled to the same standard of evidence. He got off because the police were incompetent.

The loophole that allowed him to get away with speeding should be closed.

IIRC there were rumours way back when they'd used sex selection methods to acquire a girl in the USA where it's legal.

Pity the poor technician who had the dubious joy of dabbling in Goldenball's emissions

I don't approve of gender selection being legal. I always feel uncomfortable with the children being part of the brand.

I agree with Brahumbug tbh. The police prosecute thousands and thousands of speeders a day, and none of us really know whether they’re doing it properly, we’re just rushed into it with the promise of reduced punishment if we admit it and agree quickly.

What I diagree with though, is that right to challenge should be the preserve of the very wealthy because I don’t imagine it can be particularly advanced legalese that got him off. Surely it’s the sort of thing Martin Lewis brought to the masses with private parking tickets?

But it isn't a loophole, the police failed to follow the procedure laid down in law and as a result the prosecution failed, that is how it should be, we have to obey the law and so do the police. That is like saying that lack of evidence of a crime is a loophole stopping police prosecuting people. It is what protects us from corrupt and incompetent police.