As Niall
notes, world famous footballer David Beckham is to join the LA Galaxy in
July. I saw this earlier and mentioned it at dinner tonight to my sons, one of
who loves David Beckham simply because he’s the only footballer he really knows.
He was thrilled, since despite being half British, he’s got a strong sense of
American patriotism in him. To prove this, he told me he hoped David would be OK
playing with those big uniforms and being tackled. Bless — he knows Daddy
thinks football means American football so thought I meant Beckham was going to
play an entirely new sport.
My son also has a special kinship with Beckham. He ended up driving little
kiddy cars in the same group as Beckham’s oldest son three years ago at Legoland.
Beckham just turned up for the day, and the ended up in the same group. Oddly,
despite that bonding, David never calls, he never writes…
For my past writings on football of the UK nature, check out my
World Cup category, especially my
By the way, I finally got around to uploading that clip of me on the BBC at
the World Cup, along with Dave Naylor to the right side and Tim Mayer (next up)
behind us. Here you go:
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Danny, from your experience of both sides of the Atlantic, do you think he can bring £128m worth of value to footy in the US?
I think this will do great things for soccer in the US. I am even more excited that his first game will likely be in my home city of Dallas!