Beckham blasts 'sad' German writer who lampooned his family
(AFP)
Updated: 2006-06-14 09:38
England captain David Beckham blasted the "sad" writer at a German tabloid
who described his sister as "Fat-ham" and his mother as having the "smile of a
peasant," a British daily reported.
David Beckham's sister
Joanne poses, June 2004 at Coimbra's stadium, before a Euro 2004 game.
England captain Beckham blasted the "sad" writer at a German tabloid who
described his sister as "Fat-ham" and his mother as having the "smile of a
peasant," a British daily reported. [AFP] | "There
are certain times when people criticize me as a footballer. But when they do
things to my family, it is something I do not accept and never will," Beckham
said after Germany's top-selling Bild newspaper lampooned his family.
Beckham, quoted by The Sun newspaper, the biggest-selling paper in Britain,
added: "The person who did this - criticizing my mother, my sister and my
children - he must be sad.
"A sad person sitting there in a room thinking of something to try to put me
off my next game," Beckham was quoted as saying.
"I am not going to let him do that and I am not going to accept it. There are
some sad people out there," he said.
Bild, Germany's top selling newspaper, published its article after the entire
Beckham family decamped to Frankfurt to watch England's opening World Cup match
against Paraguay on Saturday.
Beckham's 24-year-old sister Joanne came in for especially harsh treatment in
the full-page spread accompanied by color photographs.
"Dear me, is she chubby. Arms, bust, bum, all very British. Joanne is the
sort of girl who drinks sangria on the beach in Majorca. And then dances on a
table with her top off," said the paper.
The Real Madrid star, who earns an estimated 17 million pounds (32 million
dollars) a year, flew his relatives to Frankfurt in a private jet.
Bild described his mother Sandra, 50, as the "superstar's mum with the smile
of a peasant".
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