He’s been out promoting the brand

The breaking news is that David Beckham will not be earning his 100th England cap against Switzerland next week, despite insisting that he is ‘fit and sharp […] and ready to be selected’.

Capello obviously doesn’t share this view, and judging by Mr B.’s schedule, it’s easy to see why. Since the MLS season closed in October, he’s attended photoshoots, parties, hung out with Snoop Dogg, followed the Spice Girls on tour, visited Sierra Leone, opened an academy in Brazil, and found the time to have several hours of tattoo work done to his left arm. In a blog entry posted yesterday, he claims to have been keeping to a training schedule with the Arsenal team, but with all the other commitments floating around, he can’t have committed more than a few days a week getting fit.

You’ve brought this one on yourself, Becks.