BBC Sport is reporting that McClaren is dropping Beckham for next week's friendly and has no plans to recall him.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4782613.stm

I hope this is true. Although Beckham gets unfair criticism, I feel McClaren needs to build for Euro 2008 and beyond and there's no point in continuing to pick a player whose age makes him unlikely to play at that tournament.