..without a shadow of doubt the most overrated footballer in history. Tonight  in Stuttgart Beck's will earn his 93rd international cap. Not bad for a player who has no pace, no dribbling skils, can't score with regularity (sorry Posh) and won't even think about the art of the tackle or heading a ball.

Beckham is a product of a society that no longer cares about the fundementals of sport but is more interested in looks and celebrity. Who honestly thinks that Beckham would get a game for England if Sven Goran Eriksson, another celebrity junkie, wasn't the manager.

One match saving game in 2001 against Greece and a couple of free-kicks goals are the sum total of his England career. Beckham now has a maximum of four games in 2006 to show me and the world that he really does have that little bit of something extra special. The extra class that separates the not bad from the great. If not, I'll be chanting 'are you Landon in disguise'.