HE certainly knows how to ham it up on the celebrity circuit. But now David Beckham has proved his total love of ham full stop. After the recent friendly in Sevilla – in which England’s second highest capped player was one of the few plus points for his team – he naturally went shopping.

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Will the fans and police in Sevilla be any better behaved than in Madrid? After all, Sevilla’s stadium was the scene of an ugly unprovocked police attack on Spurs fans as we reported two years ago

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Spurs riot in Spain sparked by attack on female supporter

- 19 Apr, 2007 @ 04:14

The British fan, Chloe Hayes, 22, who had travelled to Seville with her father Paul, was clubbed over the head with a riot baton for arguing with a policeman about her seat

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England are not very good at football

- 22 Feb, 2007 @ 04:10

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NOW the rain has finally fallen in meaningful quantity after nine months of drought, many an angler’s thoughts turn to the transformation of dry barrancos near the coast into healthy flowing rivers. And the fish they might contain.

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Anyone for cricket?

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor) - 27 Nov, 2006 @ 07:23

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Clowns kicking a pig skin (football)

Adele MacGregor - 9 Nov, 2006 @ 07:09

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