Despite every major paper across the world featuring an inconsolable Beckham, it was far from certain that he was going to make the team for South Africa and even then he would have been a mere bit part player. Thankfully for Capello, David's aging tendons took control and made the decision for him, no beckham specials at the world cup it appeared, but no it seems he may very well be in Durban come June.
According to reports today, Capello has offered Becks a Mascot role at the World Cup but it's unclear whether he would have to don an outfit similar to Fred the Red(pictured).
EDIT:
Speaking of all things Becks, the British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy has released her poem for Beckham's sluiced tendon, appropriately titled Achilles. Expect Rio to be reciting it to a hushed locker room right before England go out in the quarter finals again. Text below:
Without him, it was prophesised, they would not take Troy.
Women hid him, concealed him in girls' sarongs; days of sweetmeats, spices, silver songs...
But when Odysseus came, with an athlete's build, a sword and a shield, he followed him to the battlefield, the crowd's roar,
And it was sport, not war, his charmed foot on the ball...
But then his heel, his heel, his heel...
