David Beckham must be getting to the point where he is running out of avenues to explore. People the world over are already more than familiar with Beckham the model, the fragrance, the underwear range, the charity worker and the advertising juggernaut. Have I left anything out? Oh yeah, David Beckham the footballer.
Back in the 1980s, the revolution at Rangers that saw Graeme Souness and co shake Scottish football to its core led to a number of England internationals plying their trade north of the border.
In the last five years most parts of the world have felt the effect of a recession, the word has been repeated so many times that you could be forgiven for feeling indifferent to it by now. However, football is one industry where financial difficulties have hardly registered, instead another r word has reared it's ugly head- racism.
We’ve done it! England have now officially qualified for the World Cup finals next summer. There were bound to be a few nerves wracked and a few nails bitten but if there’s one thing that England tend to do well it’s qualify, and a fairly routine night at Wembley on Tuesday was capped nicely by Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard goals.
The results from their final world cup qualifiers may have been the same, but for England and Scotland, the 2-0 victories will have left a very different set of emotions. While England, having seen off the challenge of Poland, can bask in the euphoria of a confirmed place among the protagonists in next summer’s extravaganza in Brazil, Scotland can only dwell once more on what might have been.