The Bild is becoming more and more like The Sun everyday.
German rag taunts Becks
From NICK PARKER
in Baden Baden
DAVID Beckham had plenty to feel sick about last night — after another stomach-churning attack from a German paper.
He was mocked for throwing up at the Ecuador game and dubbed “David Brecham” after the German word for vomit — “brechen”.
Vile rag Bild even hurled abuse at the England team by suggesting Becks chucked up because they played such sickening soccer.
The paper — which has already called his sister Joanne a “fat pig” and his children “dwarves” — gave a whole page to the attack in its Cup section.
Under the banner headline “David Brecham”, an anonymous sports writer sniped: “Was he thinking about his wife’s credit card bill?
But, as The Sun reported, Beckham was simply suffering from dehydration after his free kick sent England into the quarter finals.
Bild outlined FOUR ludicrous theories: “Did the play of his team make him sick? Perhaps because Beckham is leader of the 11 players, he couldn’t go through the same again.
“The result: a bad taste despite the victory, like in the previous round.
“Or can this metrosexual be pregnant? Expectant mothers suffer nausea. Biologically, Beckham is not a woman, but is nevertheless a metrosexual.
“Perhaps Mrs Beckham is pregnant again and dad suffers with her?
“Did he think of his wife’s credit card bill? Her average outfit costs at least 2000 euros.
“Or did he drink too much English beer? Thin, bad beer without a head instead of delicious German beer.”
Bild’s earlier Beckham rant was by sports columnist Tobias Holtkamp, but no one owned up to the latest attack.
An England source said: “This is just another pathetic attempt to upset David as he prepares for our next game.
“The last time he described the people responsible as sad and this situation is the same.
“It won’t knock him off course or deflect his determination to beat Portugal. He’ll let his football do the talking.”
Becks was yesterday given a clean bill of health to resume full training today for Saturday’s crunch clash with Portugal in Gelsenkirchen.
thesun.co.uk
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Germany pours over Beckham's vomit
Kate Connolly
Germany’s obsession with David Beckham even extends to examining his vomit.
Germany's equivalent of The Sun (only not as funny): German tabloids also love celebrities and puns.
While one might expect all available newsprint to be taken up with Germany’s preparations for what is set to be a nail-biting encounter against Argentina on Friday, Bild has managed to dedicate a whole page to the moment Beckham threw up.
After the England - Equador match, it sent a reporter to examine the contents of the Beckham stomach and, Poirot-style, to interview witnesses to the incident.
They told him, in nauseating detail: “It happened about two metres from the touchline, more or less at Eriksson’s eye level. It was in the 62nd minute”.
But there’s bad news, I’m afraid, for all those souvenir hunters out there. “A storm which raged over Stuttgart after the match washed everything away,” Frank Ernst writes, next to a picture of him examining “the spot”.
But the interest doesn’t end there. Dissatisfied with The Sun’s theory that he was “suffering from the German heat”, the tabloid offers a detailed list of reasons as to what might have brought on Beckham’s queasiness.
“Did he drink too much English beer?” it asks. “Thin, lousy dishwater without any froth instead of German beer - quite frankly Becks, that would make us puke as well.”
Or was it that his thoughts turned to Victoria’s outrageous spending habits? (“But after all what else is there to do in Baden-Baden except Shoppen-Shoppen?”)
Or maybe, it suggests, he’s “pregnant and has morning sickness (latin: “Hyperemesis”)... either that or he’s suffering from sympathetic pregnancy syndrome.”
Let’s get on with the football...
telegraph.co.uk
German rag taunts Becks
From NICK PARKER
in Baden Baden
DAVID Beckham had plenty to feel sick about last night — after another stomach-churning attack from a German paper.
He was mocked for throwing up at the Ecuador game and dubbed “David Brecham” after the German word for vomit — “brechen”.
Vile rag Bild even hurled abuse at the England team by suggesting Becks chucked up because they played such sickening soccer.
The paper — which has already called his sister Joanne a “fat pig” and his children “dwarves” — gave a whole page to the attack in its Cup section.
Under the banner headline “David Brecham”, an anonymous sports writer sniped: “Was he thinking about his wife’s credit card bill?
But, as The Sun reported, Beckham was simply suffering from dehydration after his free kick sent England into the quarter finals.
Bild outlined FOUR ludicrous theories: “Did the play of his team make him sick? Perhaps because Beckham is leader of the 11 players, he couldn’t go through the same again.
“The result: a bad taste despite the victory, like in the previous round.
“Or can this metrosexual be pregnant? Expectant mothers suffer nausea. Biologically, Beckham is not a woman, but is nevertheless a metrosexual.
“Perhaps Mrs Beckham is pregnant again and dad suffers with her?
“Did he think of his wife’s credit card bill? Her average outfit costs at least 2000 euros.
“Or did he drink too much English beer? Thin, bad beer without a head instead of delicious German beer.”
Bild’s earlier Beckham rant was by sports columnist Tobias Holtkamp, but no one owned up to the latest attack.
An England source said: “This is just another pathetic attempt to upset David as he prepares for our next game.
“The last time he described the people responsible as sad and this situation is the same.
“It won’t knock him off course or deflect his determination to beat Portugal. He’ll let his football do the talking.”
Becks was yesterday given a clean bill of health to resume full training today for Saturday’s crunch clash with Portugal in Gelsenkirchen.
thesun.co.uk
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Germany pours over Beckham's vomit
Kate Connolly
Germany’s obsession with David Beckham even extends to examining his vomit.
Germany's equivalent of The Sun (only not as funny): German tabloids also love celebrities and puns.
While one might expect all available newsprint to be taken up with Germany’s preparations for what is set to be a nail-biting encounter against Argentina on Friday, Bild has managed to dedicate a whole page to the moment Beckham threw up.
After the England - Equador match, it sent a reporter to examine the contents of the Beckham stomach and, Poirot-style, to interview witnesses to the incident.
They told him, in nauseating detail: “It happened about two metres from the touchline, more or less at Eriksson’s eye level. It was in the 62nd minute”.
But there’s bad news, I’m afraid, for all those souvenir hunters out there. “A storm which raged over Stuttgart after the match washed everything away,” Frank Ernst writes, next to a picture of him examining “the spot”.
But the interest doesn’t end there. Dissatisfied with The Sun’s theory that he was “suffering from the German heat”, the tabloid offers a detailed list of reasons as to what might have brought on Beckham’s queasiness.
“Did he drink too much English beer?” it asks. “Thin, lousy dishwater without any froth instead of German beer - quite frankly Becks, that would make us puke as well.”
Or was it that his thoughts turned to Victoria’s outrageous spending habits? (“But after all what else is there to do in Baden-Baden except Shoppen-Shoppen?”)
Or maybe, it suggests, he’s “pregnant and has morning sickness (latin: “Hyperemesis”)... either that or he’s suffering from sympathetic pregnancy syndrome.”
Let’s get on with the football...
telegraph.co.uk