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Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today, Friday, December the 16th.

It's still blooming cold. It's still cold and freezing and miserable and horrible and terrible.

And finally we've got a response from David Beckham.

Well, you've not really.

David has copped out because obviously his management team have come up with a comment about him

trousering 10.5 million from that ghastly Qatar place where homosexuality

is still illegal. And they really, they're just so backward. It's untrue, really. But they have

been trying to get comments. Joe Lyset read out a statement from the former footballer, although

it's not from him at all. It's from his management. And you know, the reason I know it's from his management is because it starts off by saying

David has been involved in a number of World Cups. So that's somebody speaking on behalf of him,

because David's not bright enough to realize. Basically what it comes down to, and I'll read it to you. They say he's been both a player and an ambassador, and he always

believes that sport has the power to be a force for good in the world, which is the biggest

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