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Post by TennisHack on Mar 4, 2004 21:31:23 GMT -5
A thread for the juicy stuff I'll start with this shocker of a headline: Six Leicester City players jailed in connection with alleged sexual assault HAROLD HECKLE, Associated Press Writer Thursday, March 4, 2004 (03-04) 17:05 PST CARTAGENA, Spain (AP) -- Six English Premier League soccer players spent Thursday night in jail amid allegations of sexual assault on three women, a Leicester City club spokesman said. Two Leicester City players were free on bail, Tim Davies said. Eight players are charged with breaking and entering and four also were accused of sexual assault, a police statement said. The women alleged that the players forced their way into a hotel room and sexually assaulted them, causing injuries, the statement said. The women filed the complaint Tuesday, but it was not clear when the alleged assault occurred. Defender Nikos Dabizas and goalkeeper Danny Coyne were free on bail. The other six players were not identified. Nine players were arrested Wednesday, but midfielder Steffen Freund was released without charges, Davies said. He said the players deny any wrongdoing. "All of us are in shock," Davies said. "I am devastated," manager Mickey Adams said. Leicester City was on a midseason break this week at the nearby La Manga complex, regularly visited by soccer teams from abroad. After the arrests, the rest of the squad cut short the weeklong trip and returned to England on Wednesday, news reports said. Leicester, threatened with relegation from the Premier League, the top tier of soccer in England, arrived in Spain on Sunday after a dismal run of 15 league and cup matches without a win. It is not due to play again in the Premier League until March 13 against Birmingham.
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Post by TennisHack on Mar 4, 2004 21:32:55 GMT -5
UPDATE -Six Leicester players to remain in custody Thu 4 March, 2004 23:33 (Adds release of some players, background, previous MADRID)
CARTAGENA, Spain, March 4 (Reuters) - Six of the nine Leicester City soccer players arrested after an alleged sexual assault in Spain will spend the night in police cells, a lawyer acting for the players said on Thursday.
Nine players from the English premier league club were arrested and called to give evidence to a judge at a court in the southeastern city of Cartagena earlier in the day after three women made an allegation of sexual assault.
Lawyer Ana Ruiz Perez told reporters at the court that one of the men, who had been accused of failing to provide help, was released in the morning without charge.
Two other players were provisionally released late in the evening after giving evidence to the court.
The rest of the players would spend the night in police cells, Ruiz Perez said.
No further details were immediately available.
According to a government statement released on Thursday morning, the three women accused the players of breaking into their hotel room and said they had been sexually assaulted by some of them.
The three women made the accusation at Alicante airport as they were preparing to fly to Germany and identified the players from photographs, the statement said.
The government statement did not say when the alleged incident happened or what nationality the women were.
Four players were accused of sexual assault and illegal entry, one of assault and illegal entry and three of illegal entry and failure to provide assistance.
TRAINING CAMP
Leicester City, second from bottom in England's premier league, had been holding a training camp in La Manga.
"The club is aware that a number of players have been interviewed by Spanish police as a result of alleged incidents which took place during a club training camp in Spain," Leicester City said on its Web site.
"The club is cooperating fully with the authorities in their investigations but, as these investigations are still ongoing, it is not in a position to make any further comment at this stage."
The episode is the latest in a series of allegations of sexual impropriety involving English premier league footballers this season.
In January, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped charges against Titus Bramble of Newcastle United and Carlton Cole, who is on loan at Charlton Athletic from Chelsea.
They had been arrested in October with two other men after a 17-year-old girl alleged she was gang-raped at a top London hotel.
Later the same month, the CPS dropped charges against Leeds United midfielder Jody Morris, who along with a friend had been accused of seriously sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman in the Leeds area in northern England.
Leicester City have had problems in La Manga before. In 2000, Stan Collymore, then a Leicester player, set off a fire extinguisher in a late-night incident which led to the club being sent home in disgrace.
(Additional reporting by Kevin Fylan and Estelle Shirbon in Madrid)
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Post by ILR on Mar 5, 2004 9:45:57 GMT -5
I saw this on Tv last night. This is a long line of accusations like this and Im only talking about in the past season! Oh boy, there's lots of scandal
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Post by TennisHack on Mar 5, 2004 11:35:05 GMT -5
Oh, do share! I just happened across this while looking for articles about the tennis last night. Hehe, I had a feeling football was chock full of the juicy stuff
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Post by ILR on Mar 5, 2004 17:30:00 GMT -5
Oh dear, you really want to know?? I'll have to find you some articles Drugs, rape, everything! Some of it may be old stuff but its still bad
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Post by ILR on Mar 5, 2004 17:33:20 GMT -5
Ok, well here's one for now Its pretty long....but theres some good stuff in it! SOCCER RAPISTS Sex please, we're British footballers By Abdul Hafiz SEX, violence, football, celebrity and big money. You cannot get better ingredients for a story - and the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old student by Premiership players in September provided that and more. Newcastle defender Titus Bramble (above) and Chelsea striker Carlton Cole are the Premiership players who were arrested for the alleged gang-rape. -- REUTERS The world was hooked. Every day for nearly two weeks, increasingly detailed accounts were published by English tabloids. The scene was the £400 (S$1,200)-a-night five-star Grosvenor House hotel in Park Lane. The victim was a Catholic sixth-former, a part-time model who was tall, slim and had shoulder-length brown hair. The player who paid for the room was an English international who was seen eating at one of London's most expensive restaurants before spending the night with another woman. We read lurid descriptions of each sex act - both natural and unnatural - and learnt that 'roasting' meant more than just putting a bird on the fire and was a 'normal' part of the soccer scene. By the second day, the Internet was abuzz with gossip on the case, some of it naming the players not involved. Scores of football website message boards were shut after solicitors threatened Internet providers with injunctions if their clients' names were not erased. Other sites replaced the names with asterisks. In the same week, a Leeds player was arrested for a separate incident of alleged rape. At the same time, England players were deciding whether to abandon their country and support a team-mate who had been banned for failing to take a drugs test. And the headlines declared that English football was in a state of crisis. The media blamed the enormous amounts of money being thrown at young yobs just because they knew how to kick a ball. The turning point was said to be a decade ago, when television companies decided on a bidding war for rights to broadcast games and, since then, the revenue pouring into the English Premiership, including merchandising, has grown to nearly £1 billion. Most of the money went into players' pockets. The best of them, like Arsenal defender Sol Campbell, earn £100,000 a week. An average player can make £25,000 a week. A fortnight after the gang-rape scandal, pictures from a pornography video made during a boozy 2000 trip to a Cyprus resort made the rounds. The stars were England internationals Rio Ferdinand, Frank Lampard and Kieron Dyer, who allegedly lured several girls into an orgy where they were treated as 'slabs of meat' - according to The News of The World - while a friend secretly taped the action. Dyer was the man who booked the room in which the gang-rape allegedly took place, but he has denied any involvement. 'Loaded and loathsome: the young stars going off the rails', declared the Guardian. The Daily Mail slammed the 'self-absorbed, multi-millionaire football princelings' who 'have drunk and copulated their way around the nightclub VIP areas, five-star hotels and exclusive resorts as if it were their due'. Observers-turned-psychologists tried to explain what it was about the game that made footballers explore the limits of sexual depravity. Lee Chapman, who won the Premiership title with Manchester United in 1992, blamed the team nature of the sport. 'Hotel-room sharing is often compulsory because the managers think it promotes team spirit,' he said. 'It has the effect of nurturing a nasty kind of gang mentality, which encourages the sort of horrible behaviour we've been reading about.' Others looked at the declining morality or increasingly liberal attitudes of young girls who prowl nightclubs hunting for footballers to share their wealth and bed. One such 'goal-digger' was quoted as saying: 'Footballers are just like any other lads. They want sex. There are lots of girls who make a beeline for them. They are not models or anything - they do ordinary jobs but, for one night, they really are someone. 'Some deliberately want to kiss and tell. It's well known that some girls target footballers so they can get money from a tabloid for saying they had a fling with them. About £8,000 is the going rate.' Another said: 'Most of them know exactly what they are doing. They go out to pull a footballer and they're disappointed if they don't. If it involves being shared around a bit, well, so be it.' Three weeks ago, the Premiership players arrested for the alleged gang-rape were named as Newcastle defender Titus Bramble, 22, and Chelsea striker Carlton Cole, 19, who is on loan to Charlton. A month earlier, Jody Morris, 25, was named as the Leeds player and, since then, he has been accused of another rape which allegedly occurred two years ago. In between, Manchester City team-mates Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman tried to stop a tabloid from publishing claims by a woman that they tried to persuade her into sex with both of them after a night out. After seeing the evidence, they dropped the case and lost £50,000 in legal fees. Amidst the search for a cause for the evils of football, few actually pause to consider that no player has ever been found guilty of sexual assault. But, for every handful who fall into the trappings of fame and money, there are scores whose performances off the pitch are cleaner than on. Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Michael Owen are a few that easily come to mind. When those charged stand in front of a judge, they will realise that, like everybody else, footballers are responsible for their individual actions and are subject to the law. And those who continue to look for other causes should simply trace the money down the chain. The ones who ultimately pay the big salaries to these players are not the Rupert Murdochs but those who, despite the tainted reputations, continue to buy soccer jerseys and insist on their weekly Premiership fix: the fans.
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Post by ILR on Mar 5, 2004 17:35:54 GMT -5
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Post by TennisHack on Mar 13, 2004 0:12:28 GMT -5
LMAO, we get this show "Footballers' Wives" and its quite amusing. I was going to ask if they actually showed it in Britian or not but forgot until I saw this Grim-faced soccer stars fly back to grey realityBy Sam Leith (Filed: 13/03/2004) Sam Leith reports on the Leicester City scandal which has more than an echo of ITV's lurid Footballers' Wives The world of Footballers' Wives - with its lurid cast of murderous trollops and crooked footballers - is one of vivid technicolor. Keith Gillespie, Frank Sinclair and Paul Dickov leaving Spain Every face is orange; every body draped in fluorescent Versace; every earlobe and manicured finger sparkling with radioactive bling. Footballers slurp red wine from brandy balloons and evil Tanya wears so much mascara that her eyes are skew-whiff with the weight of it. The Leicester City scandal - with its exotic location (that's "sun-drenched" in tabloidese) and rumours of spectacular sexual misbehaviour - seemed, at first, to be a direct lift from the television show. But, yesterday, its sequel was played out in drizzly Luton. The bright colours of Footballers' Wives had given way to a miserable grey: grey mist around Luton Airport; grey air traffic control tower; grey wilderness of carpark in which the grim, grey terminal building is marooned. Grey, too, it is reasonable to imagine, were the moods of the three washed-out men - Keith Gillespie, Frank Sinclair and Paul Dickov - who spent seven nights in a Spanish jail on charges of serious sexual assault, which they deny, before being granted bail. The three, who earn salaries of thousands a week, flew into Luton in the next best thing to sackcloth and ashes: two hours delayed, in the back row of a cheap-as-chips Easyjet flight. A fellow passenger described them as "subdued" - a report borne out by the photographs of them arriving earlier at the airport in Alicante, glowering like sulky schoolchildren. A colleague in Spain who managed to get an interview reports that their conversation was two words long, and ended with "off". Rather than proceeding through Luton customs in a riot of Louis Vuitton, cashmere and wrap-round sunglasses, the scruffily-dressed trio were hustled by police out of a back entrance, while a minibus with the engine running decoyed 40 cold and disgruntled cameramen and reporters waiting outside. The sight of a footballer with his top pulled up over his head used to mean he had scored a goal. These days, it is more likely he is trying to make his way through an airport, or out of a courtroom, without being photographed. The men carried their belongings in theatrically humble plastic bags through the rundown terminal building. Broken glass was being swept from the floor of the Bar Des Voyageurs, the arrival board was striped red with delayed flights, and displays of duty-free goods rotated joylessly behind glass. At the airport bookshop, the front table had, piled high, a stack of paperback editions of Tom Bower's book about the "souring of English football". Even in the Altitude Cafe, jinks were not high. The girlfriends and wives of the three men had flown back - presumably, carrying the smart luggage - under separate cover the previous night. We can only speculate about whether that decision was made as part of a public relations strategy (ie to prevent photographs of them with their other halves "looking strained"), or for the protection of the footballers themselves from girlfriends who will, at the very least, have some searching questions of their own. Stories - published and unpublished - of what actually happened in that Spanish hotel have been fabulously squalid. And, over the last week, tabloid newspapers have shown no great enthusiasm for letting justice take its course; still less to let the seriousness of a rape allegation intrude into the saga of roastings and doggings and sexual skulduggery that has become far more interesting than boring old football. The three women who have accused the men of sexual assault have been smeared as prostitutes and gold-diggers. One was claimed to have sold 19-year-old girls as sex-slaves. Another paper dredged up a man who claimed to have slept with one of the women earlier in the day - and then watched as she went out to look for more footballers, so "gagging" was she to bag another player... It has all been too tempting; all too like fiction; all too like Footballers' Wives. But the real footballers' wives - startled-looking Janet Dickov in her baseball cap and scarf, or Frank Sinclair's blonde, Burberry-wrapped fiancee Nicola Wealleans - may not be finding the whole thing as entertaining as Tanya or Chardonnay would have done.
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Post by ILR on Mar 13, 2004 14:42:22 GMT -5
Yeah, we do get that show but I think its too OTT. Id prefer to focus on the footy
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Post by ILR on Apr 5, 2004 13:39:28 GMT -5
David Beckham appears to have been a naughty boy!! Its been in all our papers recently. Im going to post the thread though because I can't be bothered going through all the articles which are already here www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=109145
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Post by Lee on Apr 5, 2004 13:49:26 GMT -5
David Beckham appears to have been a naughty boy!! Its been in all our papers recently. Im going to post the thread though because I can't be bothered going through all the articles which are already here www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=109145No doubt about it.
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Post by ILR on Apr 5, 2004 13:50:44 GMT -5
No doubt about it. Hehe, our tabloids love the juicy stuff like this, true or not I didn't think he was the type. But I dont knowwhat to believe lol.
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Post by Lee on Apr 5, 2004 13:57:16 GMT -5
Hehe, our tabloids love the juicy stuff like this, true or not I didn't think he was the type. But I dont knowwhat to believe lol. Not interested in the juicy part. I rarely scan the names of the players there David needs someone to worship him and right now, Victoria doesn't look like doing the part. And that woman, Rebecca Loos has one hell of a brother talking to tabloids about his sister's affair. It's weird that she'll confide to a brother
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Post by Ilhame on Apr 5, 2004 14:04:18 GMT -5
Wasn't he also accused of cheating on Posh a few years ago?
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Post by ILR on Apr 5, 2004 14:05:02 GMT -5
Not interested in the juicy part. I rarely scan the names of the players there David needs someone to worship him and right now, Victoria doesn't look like doing the part. And that woman, Rebecca Loos has one hell of a brother talking to tabloids about his sister's affair. It's weird that she'll confide to a brother Victoria is out trying to get herself a career I know, I wouldn't tell my brother things like that and I doubt she would have done unless she wanted it to get out
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Post by ILR on Apr 5, 2004 14:05:36 GMT -5
Wasn't he also accused of cheating on Posh a few years ago? Was he? I dont remember that......
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Post by Ilhame on Apr 5, 2004 15:19:12 GMT -5
I heard him talking about it once on a show televised by the BBC ;D
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Post by ILR on Apr 5, 2004 15:22:39 GMT -5
I heard him talking about it once on a show televised by the BBC ;D wow, I want to see this! I dont remember it at all ;D
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Post by Ilhame on Apr 5, 2004 15:32:13 GMT -5
I think it was around the time that Victoria was pregnant for the first time. It hurt him to see this in all the papers Becks is an angel and a bad boy in one. I don't believe he's all innocent
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Post by ILR on Apr 5, 2004 15:34:34 GMT -5
I think it was around the time that Victoria was pregnant for the first time. It hurt him to see this in all the papers Becks is an angel and a bad boy in one. I don't believe he's all innocent Ooooh all that time ago, probably why I dont remember I've always thought he was too soft to do anything like that I always thought that he was totally devoted to Victoria. Who knows....
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Post by Ilhame on Apr 5, 2004 15:42:00 GMT -5
Maybe it's just cause I believe you can't fully trust a metrosexual He's too hot to be a one woman man ;D
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Post by ILR on Apr 5, 2004 15:43:16 GMT -5
Maybe it's just cause I believe you can't fully trust a metrosexual He's too hot to be a one woman man ;D You have a point there........ can't say I agree with the next bit though He's never done anything for me lol.
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Post by Ilhame on Apr 5, 2004 15:45:56 GMT -5
I know he doesn't do anything to you, but he does to many other women
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Post by ILR on Apr 5, 2004 15:55:24 GMT -5
I know he doesn't do anything to you, but he does to many other women Very true I just dont see what all the fuss is about Looks like Im one on my own though hehe.
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Post by TennisHack on Apr 10, 2004 18:28:21 GMT -5
observer.guardian.co.uk/focus/story/0,6903,1189843,00.html The great Becks orgy Sex, text and football have been in the news all week, with paparazzi, publicists and Spanish sirens joining in the fun. But David Smith and Denis Campbell predict the marriage and career of David Beckham will survive the media storm Sunday April 11, 2004 The Observer Stepping gingerly on to a snowboard, in her Dior shades and Mogul Hi black ski wear with bright red nails and a new 'DB' tattoo on her left wrist, Victoria Beckham knew she was one tumble away from front page humiliation. Two dozen photographers took aim like snipers in the knowledge that Posh landing on her backside at Courchevel would be every headline writer's dream. Victoria told the press men with uncharacteristic good humour: 'I've never been snowboarding before. If I'd known you lot were going to be here I'd have done my hair. It's going to be really embarrassing if I fall over.' Minutes later the snowboard was abandoned and she went back to skis. Brooklyn and Romeo played in the snow and looked cute. David Beckham had already said goodbye and was gone. 'The story you thought you'd never read,' was how last week's News of the World billed its allegation that Beckham had been cheating on Victoria. It claimed the England football captain had a secret affair with his former personal assistant, diplomat's daughter Rebecca Loos, reprinting text messages he purportedly sent her and prompting a nationwide guessing game over what naughty words had been blotted out by ****. There was more salacious detail from Loos in yesterday's Sun, merely a foretaste of today's News of the World, which has reputedly paid her £350,000 for an interview and tapes of phone conversations she secretly recorded. Beckham trained with his fellow stars yesterday, refusing to comment. The heat was on, but could it really be true? This was the man venerated as a paragon of football and fidelity, a devoted husband and father, a model of well-groomed twentyfirst century masculinity. That he could do the dirty on his wife was one of the great unthinkables, guaranteed to knock terrorism out of the headlines and become the talking point in every office and pub. Each day last week brought tales of supermodels, Swedish blondes and a woman dubbed the 'Spanish Jordan', of lesbian lovers, image fixers, tabloid editors and a former spy for Fidel Castro. The drama stretched from the newsrooms of London to the nightclubs of Madrid to the playground of the rich a mile high in the French Alps, all hingeing on the modern world's 'lipstick on your collar' giveaway - the text message. In this strange universe, nothing is quite what it seems. Public appearances are choreographed by aides. Newspaper columns are angled by editors with a view not just to boosting circulation but currying favour with publicists. The Beckhams themselves contrive a display of public unity while, it is believed, tearing pieces out of each other in private. At stake is the incalculably lucrative global Beckham brand. Rumours of cracks in the marriage began last September soon after Beckham's £25 million transfer from Manchester United to Real Madrid.Victoria, 29, was said to have begged him to leave Old Trafford because of her dislike of his manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, and of living outside her native South-East. Yet when Beckham moved to the Spanish capital she refused to budge, still preferring to shop in Chelsea and New York with her record producer friend Damon Dash. No wonder David - 28 years old and alone in a strange city - got frustrated, said his friends. Then came the rift over the England captain's management company, SFX. Last year Victoria persuaded him to leave SFX and join her under the stewardship of Simon Fuller, who created the Spice Girls and runs the agency 19. Critics say her motivation was twofold: she feared Fuller might not agree to resurrect her pop career unless the Beckhams came as a package - and she knew that removing SFX would also remove Loos, 26, the attractive young personal assistant assigned to help Beckham settle into Madrid. Beckham gave in to his wife, buying himself out of a two-year contract. Loos lost her job. Desire for revenge, coupled with pique that Beckham was allegedly texting other women too, is said to be her reason for going public about the affair, alleged to have begun last September. It is thought that in January she approached the master of tabloid tales, public relations consultant Max Clifford, who in turn alerted the News of the World . Its editor, Andy Coulson, sitting on one of the biggest stories in years, is believed to have told Loos to contact Beckham again to get proof. In mid-March a reporter is said to have been present as she sent the player suggestive text messages, to which he apparently responded with great enthusiasm and descriptions of graphic sex acts. At last, it was the evidence the tabloids craved. Just before midnight last Saturday Caroline McAteer, loyal publicist for both the Beckhams over the past five years, received two calls on her mobile while in Madrid with friends. They were from the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, desperate to catch up with the 'Screws', which had just run off the presses, devoting its first seven pages to the alleged affair. McAteer listened as the story was read down the phone. For once one of the best-connected PRs on the London showbusiness scene was out of the loop. Then she had the unhappy duty of phoning Beckham, still awake after helping Real Madrid to victory that night. On Sunday McAteer, fielding hundreds of calls, issued the only statement from Beckham so far, describing the story as 'ludicrous' but failing to deny it outright. A scramble reminiscent of 1930s screwball comedies was already under way, as Victoria - believed to have known about the Loos affair for some time - and family arrived at Heathrow en route to the Alps. Amid a scrum of photographers her brother was hit in the face with a lens and hospitalised, her mother went flying and her father sent a Daily Mail snapper sprawling. Victoria cried: 'Heavies, heavies, heavies!' to cue the intervention of her minders, a battalion of former Royal Protection Squad, army and police officers. On Monday morning celebrity photographer Jason Fraser was shooting pictures of the Beckhams strolling hand-in-hand and frolicking in the snow. When the images landed in London newspaper offices - earning Fraser around £20,000 per deal - it was immediately branded a stage-managed PR stunt - something he denies. con'd
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Post by TennisHack on Apr 10, 2004 18:28:37 GMT -5
On Tuesday the Beckhams played cat-and-mouse with the media. Once they had left their chalet, the local gendarmes blocked the road so no press could follow. But journalists had vehicles dotted around the village. Tipped off by colleagues to the Beckhams' car registration, they gave chase. All day the gendarmes intervened, demanding passports at every turn. The Beckhams were eventually tracked down to nearby slopes. The next day David kissed his wife goodbye and returned to Madrid.
Back in London the struggle for control of the puppet strings was fast and furious. Some in the Beckham camp apparently determined the best form of defence was attack, protecting his image as a devoted family man by undermining the messenger. One showbusiness reporter in Fleet Street said: 'The strategy was to destroy Rebecca Loos, turning her from respectable diplomat's daughter to sleazy señorita overnight. Beckham's people told me about her lesbian affairs and pointed me in the right direction. They gave me a number for an ex-colleague at SFX who would trash her.'
Some feared the anti-Loos campaign had backfired, however, as the portrayal of her as an irresistible sex siren made the notion of Beckham's fall all the more believable. To his side's relief, however, early indications are that there will be no negative impact on his £6m-a-year endorsement deals with the likes of Adidas, Pepsi and Vodafone.
Matthew Osman, of the Red Mandarin sponsorship consultancy, said: 'I don't think consumers or sponsors will think worse of Beckham over this, and I don't think Police will sell any fewer sunglasses, or Marks & Spencer any fewer Beckham-branded children's clothes. This isn't Persil sponsoring Tim Henman - Beckham's image isn't whiter than white like that.
'This scandal may actually add a bit of extra something to the Beckham brand because most football fans expect a bit of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in the sport they follow and, to them, what he has allegedly done is within the limits of acceptable behaviour. It almost makes Beckham more interesting because he has been involved in a so-called scandal.'
At the News of the World 's sister paper, the Sun, Clifford was seen talking with editor Rebekah Wade, forcing Shadow Chancellor Oliver Letwin to wait in line outside her office. Yesterday came the result: a front page headline 'Becks, Sex and Me' and quotations from Loos, including the observation: 'He [Beckham] often talked about different men that he thought were attractive. I don't mean in a gay sense.' There was an accompanying herogram to Clifford: 'Max is the man behind the news.'
But the Sun was still careful to brand Loos the 'sleazy señorita' and to trot out more of her ex-lovers, male and female, because it cannot afford to alienate the Beckhams altogether - an interview with them is now its chief target. Reporters have spent the week wining and dining McAteer and have obligingly begun a virtual script of what her client might like to say. The paper has unleashed a barrage of stories attacking Loos, alleging affairs with three tennis players and digging up her bisexual past.
Inevitably the past week has also seen a parade of women claiming to be ex-lovers of Beckham. Esther Cañadas, a Spanish supermodel, had once been seen talking to the player at a party and was quoted: 'Of course I like him.' Frida Karlsson, a blonde Swedish model, spoke of 'lovely lingering kisses' on a night he allegedly invited models to his hotel room. Nuria Bermúdez, dubbed the 'Spanish Jordan', who boasts she has bedded half the Real Madrid team, was allegedly seen repeatedly visiting Beckham's hotel.
And lurking in the shadows is Delfin Fernandez, a Cuban chauffeur and former Castro secret agent known as Agent Otto. He worked for Beckham for three months when he first moved to Madrid and is now trying to sell personal information about his ex-boss for £500,000.
Still at the centre of events, though, is Loos, the party girl who lives with her Dutch father and English mother in Madrid. One former colleague at SFX said: 'She was manipulative and on the make, and would set out to sexually entrap people. I'm not surprised this girl did what she did by going to the papers.'
Another ex-colleague recalled: 'She's a head-turner and is aware of that. A sportsman would clock her beauty and attractiveness; that's just human nature. I'm sure she got a lot of attention from the tennis players she came across. All the wives of the tennis players she worked with would get nervous, as anyone's wife would. She's the sort of woman women don't like because she's just gorgeous and knows it.'
Beckham's aides claim Loos is acting for the basest of reasons. One said: 'Her motives are revenge, publicity and money. We thought she would try and sell her story after she left SFX last October because she was pissed off that she didn't get a permanent job working with Victoria and David.'
The ubiquitous Clifford noted: 'I thought this might create sympathy for Victoria but many people I've talked to are saying: "What did she expect? She left him on his own and this was inevitable".'
On Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway on ITV last night, a defiant Victoria insisted: 'We're not planning on making babies at the moment. We're what they call practising at the moment, which is really good fun.' The marriage, according to insiders, is safe because Victoria needs him more than he needs her. The same appears to be true of the armies who feed off Beckham's status as a worldwide brand. This is one idol no one can afford to bring down.
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Post by TennisHack on Apr 11, 2004 14:59:54 GMT -5
Beckham faces new sex allegationsLONDON, England -- England captain David Beckham faced fresh allegations about his private life on Sunday after a second woman told a British newspaper that she had slept with the Real Madrid star. Malaysian-born Sarah Marbeck, 29, claimed in the News of the World that she'd had a two-year affair with Beckham -- married to former Spice Girl Victoria -- after meeting the player in Singapore in 2001. The newspaper also printed an interview with Beckham's former assistant Rebecca Loos who said she had slept with the 28-year-old four times. In a statement issued by his agent last Sunday, Beckham described the allegations as "ludicrous" and said he had a "wonderful wife and two very special kids." But Loos, who worked for Beckham following his move from Manchester United to Madrid last year, told the News of the World: "He needed a woman to be with him and to help him through a difficult lonely spell in his life. "His wife was thousands of miles away all the time and was no support for him at all." Beckham was expected to play for Real Madrid against Osasuna on Sunday after returning from a midweek family holiday at the French skiing resort of Courchevel. Find this article at: edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/football/04/11/beckham.sunday
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Post by TennisHack on Aug 23, 2004 14:13:53 GMT -5
Teehee, this is just too funny sports diary: England soccer sensation Rooney admits paying for sexwww.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-8-2004_pg2_25LONDON (AFP) : England’s teenage football sensation Wayne Rooney Sunday admitted having had sex with prostitutes after a London newspaper photographed him visiting a brothel. Rooney, 18, one of the hottest stars of Euro 2004, admitted paying for sex after the Sunday Mirror’s expose. “Foolish as it now seems I did on occasions visit massage parlours and prostitutes,” the Everton player said in a statement to the paper, whose headline read: “Roo in a vice den”. Rooney said his relationship with prostitutes came when he was “very young and immature” and before he settled down with his fiancee Coleen McLoughlin, also 18. “I now regret it deeply and hope people may understand that it was the sort of mistake you make when you are young and stupid,” Rooney said. The Everton striker, who is currently not playing due to injury, visited the back-street brothel in Liverpool, northwest England, around 10 times, the Sunday Mirror said. He paid £45 (66 euros, $82) for each session of sex, including with a 48-year-old grandmother, dressed in a rubber cat suit. Rooney, said to be worth £30 million on the transfer market following his four-goal haul in Euro 2004, even spent one visit signing autographs in the brothel’s waiting room, the paper said.
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Post by ILR on Aug 23, 2004 15:40:28 GMT -5
Yuk I read about that this morning :red: Oh Wayne, Coleen is such a sweet girl too!!
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Post by TennisHack on Aug 23, 2004 17:19:53 GMT -5
The funny part (IMO) was the 48-year-old grandma in the rubber cat suit The ironic part is saying he did it when he was young and stupid, and he's only 18 That's not enough hindsight to say something like that. He's decently good-looking, I have a hard time believing he couldn't get sex unless he paid for it...
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