Arise Sir David! Soccer legend Beckham knighted

Farcical.

There is no humiliation, any means or method of toadying, obsequious servitude, fawning flattery, ingratiation, David Beckham is not prepared to endue for his knighthood.

The excruciating toe-curling creepy-crawly self-depravation is astonishingly self-evidence.

The above photo is enough to cause most less entitled, excruciatingly embarrassment

British honours system rooted a thankfully long gone empire unfit for purpose.

An illusion, delusion that is not remotely reflective of a modern age.

The lack of transparency, not meritocratic, the ability for the cynical use of social media to lobby over-representation, while the silence of genuine community heroes’ heroines are overlooked.

Beckham is a masterclass in such an example.

Arise, "Sir Bend it".

Soccer legend

Maybe.

Good work rate. Great right foot. Lacked pace.

Whatever happened to John Lennon "Working Class Hero" ?

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Beckham is from a working class background.

Congrats to David Beckham! The man has raised tens of millions of pounds over the decades for UNICEF - this is mostly what the knighthood is for. Fully deserved. By all accounts, Beckham is a genuinely good person who does good deeds.

British honours system rooted a thankfully long gone empire unfit for purpose.

I'm fairly sure the majority of people in the UK still support it.

Jimizo, he is.

What is disheartening is his need to wollow, desire for a brand of snobbery, that has never ever been associated with a working class back ground

British honours system rooted a thankfully long gone empire unfit for purpose.

I'm fairly sure the majority of people in the UK still support it.

Really? Based on what?

The majority of the British people do not support the current honours system and would prefer a new one with meaningful awards going to meaningful people.

What is disheartening is his need to wollow, desire for a brand of snobbery, that has never ever been associated with a working class back ground

Mate, I honestly don’t know what you are talking about here.

What does ‘desire for a brand of snobbery’ mean?

www.bbc.com/news/uk-66707923.amp

62% support overall. Two years old, but I doubt the tide has turned hugely. Younger generations have less support.

These honours are chosen by the government. Even if the royal family were abolished, these honours - such as Beckham's - would still be given out.

Jimizo,

Beckham quite rightfully deserves recognition for his sporting prowess, achievements.

I question the use of the outdated premise of Great British dysfunctional honours system,

Why he believes desires such recognition, in a pubic display of entitled self worth. is utterly bewildering.

Why he believes desires such recognition, in a pubic display of entitled self worth

I honestly can’t make sense of this.

What are you trying to say? He has a sense entitlement? He has self-worth?

Isn’t self worth a good thing?

I am referring to Beckhams insatiable need to be accepted regarded as an equal.

By an elitist aristocracy that privately holds him in nothing other than contempt  

David Beckham’s knighthood shows the unique - and utterly absurd - power of the British class system

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/david-beckhams-knighthood-shows-the-unique-and-utterly-absurd-power-of-the-british-class-system

As the Beckhams finally get what they’ve apparently always wanted, what does it say about the institutions that put so much energy into blocking them? And what does it say about the rest of us?

Zoe Williams column opinion hits the bullseye, Beckham self worth never needed the recognition of a so ludicrously dysfunctional honours system, and the fact he believes so, is saddening.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-66707923.amp

62% support overall. Two years old, but I doubt the tide has turned hugely. Younger generations have less support.

Can’t find that?

Is this opinion on the honours system?

But the really big question is will his eldest son appear for the knighting ceremony.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-66707923.amp

Actually, it's the overall opinion of the British royal system. Not sure what the opinion is about the honours. I'd be surprised and a bit disappointed if most people begrudged David Beckham such an honour, though.

Why he believes desires such recognition, in a pubic display of entitled self worth. is utterly bewildering.

I doubt Beckham helped raise tens of millions of £ for underprivileged kids because he "desires the recognition". He's familiar to almost everyone worldwide anyway.

Fighto!

These two paragraphs from the Guardian link above, are the most poignant.

If the real block on the honour was that Posh and Becks had thrones made of gold at their wedding in 1999, which apparently annoyed Prince Philip so much that he declined to sit on a throne at the subsequent Jubilee, well, it was surely time that everyone with a throne of any kind just got over themselves.

Yet at the same time, it is tragic to want an honour in the first place, given that it pretends access to the nobility yet is completely ersatz; a fake VIP room where the champagne is fizzy apple juice and the really important people are in a different building. The culture of class deference is sustained on ideas that cannot be said out loud or even directly beheld, because they are too stupid