Beckham gets the Royal Treatment.

Royal Caribbean Tries to Block David Beckham’s Soccer Stadium.

International football star David Beckham plans to build a new football stadium at the Port of Miami with the dramatic vista of downtown Miami in the background. But the Chairman of Royal Caribbean Cruises is doing everything possible to block Beckham’s plans.

In an recent interview on a US television station, cruise executive Richard Fain says that the port isn’t a “suitable location” for the stadium.

Just a coincidence that it also happens to be the location where Fain’s cruise line built a gigantic car park and a gym for its employees?

Unlike Norwegian Cruise Lines and Carnival which operate their headquarters on the north and north-west sides of the Miami International airport, Royal Caribbean’s headquarters are located right at the port.

Fain and his “Miami Seaport Alliance” seem to be using scare tactics, arguing that the new stadium “will jeopardize more than 200 cargo and cruise-related jobs” .

Nothing to do with the fact that he may lose his precious car park and gym then?!

I’m not sure someone whose ever increasing fleet of mammoth superliners liners continue to bastardise the seascape, is an any position to  comment on the state of the landscape.

What do you think?