Or at least that's what the Match of the Day commentators seem to be saying. Honestly, I couldn't tell you. I know less about football than I do about cricket. I'm pretty sure that they want to kick the ball into the net, and they can't use their hands, but mostly I'm a bit clueless about it.
I do like Beckham's haircut. It's like a weird floppy skunky looking thing, and it makes him easy to see in when the camera is zoomed out and all the players look like tiny cockroaches running around on a furry ping-pong table. The guy with the braided cornrows also looks pretty cool, but he didn't get to play much tonight. (He seemed to be in the doghouse with the creepy old dude running the team.) Most of the players just look like tiny little sweaty blokes, and it's hard to figure out who's who.
I guess cricket had the same problem to some extent, especially with the batsmen who all tended to look like guys in equestrian riding helmets. On the other hand with cricket you had five days to figure out who all the players were. Of course it took all of about 30 seconds to figure out who Shane Warne was: that wicketkeeper guy kept yelling out "Aww... Nice one Shyne" in an outrageous accent every time he bowled!
Gee, if I keep this up I'll know more about British sport than I do about American sport. Of course, it's possible that I've already passed this point.
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