"When you're crap, you go to America" (*)

In another display of cutting edge current affairs television we get served up every night here on state broadcaster TVNZ, we were treated to the sight of Mark Sainsbury, an improbably facially hirsute host (every month is Mo-vember for our Mark), sitting in Australia for what I thought would be an insightful analysis of the Australian elections and its outcome's ramifications for New Zealand. Of course it was never thus when the camera swung to his interview subject: David Beckham.
Becks had flown in for an exhibition match in Sydney and later on in Wellington, and since the Beckham brand generates more cash than the trans-Tasman economic relationship I guess it wasn't entirely surprising.
I must say Becks is aging rather well. Far better than either Mrs Becks or Mr Sainsbury. So the item wasn't entirely without merit for all those fretting aging metrosexuals out there in Australia and New Zealand.

(*) Quote from a football fan (mentioned by Mark Simpson)

And here's a bonus picture from the Sydney Morning Herald:

Underpants

David Beckham is spending £1,000 a month on underpants he only wears once and then he throws them out. Isn't this both sheer stupidity and a huge waste of resources?
David got his priorities all wrong. Instead of relying on his ball skills to provide for himself and wife and family in old age, he needs a far better source of income and do what any reasonably fit but financially hard-up man does: auction off your used underpants.

Hat tip via Oh La la Paris

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