Beckham and Achilles

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I guess most people here will know the legend of Achilles and his heel (the one bit of him that wasn't invulnerable, but which killed him in the end). The Poet Laureate, Ann Duffy has written the following poem about David Beckam and the terrible (?) news that an injury will stop him playing in the World Cup.

My flabber could not be more gasted. He it is in all is inglorious bastertude. Twat.
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Myth's river - where his mother dipped him, fished him, a slippery golden boy flowed on, his name on its lips.

Without him, it was prophesied, 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...

[Bella Fortuna]

We should by rights call it the Horwood Beer-Master toe instead.

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