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Adios Madrid, howdy LA

12th January 2007 by Helena 4 Comments  

CuteDavid Beckham has signed a deal to play football in the US. As you would expect it’s worth a lot of money ($275 million over five years). Posh Spice of course is delighted. With her fake tits and skinny body she’ll fit in extremely well with the rest of the lollipop ladies in LA.

Personally I think it’s a bit sad. I have always been rather fond of Beckham; he’s cute, seems reasonably nice and can score goals from incredible angles. Without him the England team seems a bit less exciting and certainly less familiar. I remember driving back from the boat after our honeymoon in Sweden at break-neck speed to watch the England-Argentina game and see him sent off for violent behaviour. But that didn’t put me off him; never mind golden balls, to me he was always the golden boy. He made it impossible for me to support anyone else in the World Cup, despite the fact that biologically I’m not English at all.

To me this LA move is a rather sad swan-song. I would have preferred it if he’d just hung up his boots and become a trainer or something. The fact is that no one cares about football in America, they don’t even call it by its proper name, so Beckham ends his days in a sort of Elephants’ graveyard.

For Posh of course this is a new beginning. She will find plenty of things to do, between the visits to plastic surgeons and shopping. I bet she’s thrilled to be getting away from all that foreign chat and tapas. She’s so LA it’s scary. According to today’s Daily Mail (fount of all knowledge) she “made up his mind for him” and is already checking out luxury villas. I wish them luck really. It can’t be easy to be a celebrity couple, endlessly hounded by the media. But then if they didn’t like the limelight, they probably wouldn’t pick Beverly Hills as their next stop.


Filed Under: Britain, Italy, Sport, blog --> Tagged With: adios, howdy, madrid

4 thoughts on Adios Madrid, howdy LA

  • Rupert says:
    12th January 2007 at 7:20 pm

    The phrase is normally ‘fount of all knowledge’ – not font. Unless you were having a sly play on words, in which case, bravo.

  • helena says:
    12th January 2007 at 7:33 pm

    All right smartypants, I’ve changed it.

  • vic says:
    12th January 2007 at 10:29 pm

    why support England, Italy is your country! And we have won “la coppa del mondo”

  • helena says:
    13th January 2007 at 6:58 am

    Hello Vic
    A good point…..but I think the fact that I grew up in England and have married an Englishman has something to do with it. Although now Beckham has gone, I may change my mind. And Italy did deserve to win, England were useless.

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi-based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor-in-chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. She is working on a thriller set in Sweden as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

In 2022 her short story The Japanese Gardener came second in the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. One of her stories was also shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize. When she’s not writing, she works as a headhunter for the media and entertainment industry for the Sucherman Group. 

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

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