An item caught my eye the other day that lingers in my mind. It was one of those celeb things that irk me so much. This one featured Brooklyn Beckham the son of the failed footballer and his stick insect wife. These two have made a living by posing, him with a dumb expression that comes from his head and she by pouting in the same posture she has used for these past twenty years. Neither have actually done anything, he was an overrated player who Fergie dealt with correctly while she sang feebly in a band based on 'Girl Power,' a power invented by a male by the way. Later she was making an album when the recording studio stopped her as it 'would not sell.' How lucky are we?
Anything is used to gain cheap publicity, cheap publicity which brings them in millions!
There children similarly are being used for publicity and Brooklyn, named after the place where he was conceived and isn't it lucky he was not conceived in the Balls Pond Road! Anyway he apparently has an Instagram account, whatever that is, and is followed by some 5.8 million people according to the ever reliable 'Daily Mail.' Five point eight million? The lad is only sixteen!
What has he done to earn, or been given this following? Indeed why does anybody follow the Beckham's in the first place? The pair of them are as false as a six pound note for crying out loud, and there is nothing there!
Millions follow these people for what reason, what do they get out of following two grossly over rich people who do nothing? He played football she has her own fashion designs (does she actually design them?) and they have children, what is there here? How can a sixteen year old who has merely posed with dad have such a following?
I have done nothing, been nothing, failed at everything I have touched just like them so where is my following making me millions? Where are the companies desirous of my presence where adverts for their products are being made? If you wish a nobody then here I am!
Bah!
Instead he awaited the call to become the manager of Celtic football club, a club he once played for but was rather upset when the job went elsewhere. However he was appointed manager at Aberdeen and got the fans behind him at the start by claiming "I really wanted the Celtic job but this was all that was on offer."
Such ability to endear himself to the fans was enlivened some time later when his players, many of whom did not like him or his attitude, got stuffed by 9 goals to nil from the Celtic team. Marks response was to say "Well it's really only three points," while giving the clear impression that he cared not a jot. His team floundered and he hung on until sacked, the integrity of walking away from a failed job as not in his character and so he left football for a while.
His friend Gordon Strachan, the man who left Celtic and opened the avenue for Mark to think the job was his, took our man as his assistant when he got the Scotland job, a job he, Strachan has been doing reasonably well in the circumstances. Circumstances that have failed us by the way. Recently Mark undertook a new job as manager of Motherwell football club, a major part of Scotland's football world. The team were struggling somewhat in spite of containing many decent players and Mark McGhee has turned them around and seen them rise up the table and it will be no surprise to find them finishing the season in the top six come May.
However I suspect McGhee has a purpose in all this and Motherwell football club play only a bit part. I suspect our man will be hoping the present Celtic manager gets his jotters come May and our man reckons that by doing a good job at Motherwell will allow his name to be put forward (by him and his agent) in the hope that he will at last get the Celtic job he so desperately desires.
One slight objection to all this was the visit of his Motherwell side to Tynecastle Park which as you know is the home of the Heart of Midlothian. This the team he rejected, this the team he claimed during the week would not be allowed to 'bully' his team and this the club that did not bully but did defeat his Motherwell side by SIX goals to NIL!
Tsk!
You will have noticed that Mark McGhee was pictured standing in a snowfall. That is because it is freezing around here and up there the snow was falling so hard many games were off and some abandoned half way through. Here we merely had a smattering during the night that had gone before I woke and the sun shone through the freezing air all day.
I hope those of you in climes where 40% of heat are causing to you complain realise how difficult it is to type when frostbite gnaws at the hands! Drinking tea is hard when you have to chip the ice off beforehand. I sit hear with my feet on the heater and an icicle on my nose.
Bah!
