1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:03,120 Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda Jamna. 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:06,519 Speaker 2: When I first heard there was a David Beckham doco, 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 2: I thought, I'm not particularly interested in the Beckhams, but 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: everyone was saying, how fabulously made this documentary was It's 5 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 2: It's on Netflix and I've watched two and a half 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 2: episodes and it is magnificent. And he is so emotionally intelligent. 7 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: He's just this, He's got this soft face and their 8 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 2: love is sincere and I'm so glad they've made it. 9 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 2: I just have opinions about them that I never knew 10 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,720 Speaker 2: i'd have or never knew I wanted. And when you 11 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,879 Speaker 2: look at all that he went through, there's some interesting 12 00:00:41,159 --> 00:00:45,479 Speaker 2: points throughout it all. But Sir Alex Ferguson, who was 13 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: the head the coach of man United, and from the 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,280 Speaker 2: time Beckham was a baby, his dad was fixated on 15 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:53,199 Speaker 2: Manchester United. The time he was a baby, he was 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: in a Manchester United uniform, he was practicing his line outs, 17 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: he was blah blah blah, he was doing it all 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,960 Speaker 2: and so for him to be in the team under 19 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: Sir Alex Ferguson was everything. But Alex Ferguson demands focus 20 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 2: and that doesn't allow for girlfriends, and so he falls 21 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:14,200 Speaker 2: in love with Posh, who travels away to tour with 22 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:17,200 Speaker 2: the Spice Girls, and he is beside himself buddies and 23 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 2: everyone's saying, you're not focused enough, You're not focused enough. 24 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 2: So then they get to go to the World Cup. 25 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 2: This is I'm obviously cherry picking this extraordinary story, but 26 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 2: these are the bits that stuck out to me in 27 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 2: the bits so I've seen so far. They're playing Argentina 28 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 2: in the World Cup, and we think England and Australia 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,479 Speaker 2: have a fierce rivalry. England and Argentina are massive since 30 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 2: the Falklands. The war goes back a long way. 31 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:44,040 Speaker 3: That's where Andrew stops sweating. 32 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:49,480 Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, big momentous moment. So here they 33 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 2: are in the World Cup and they're often famous. England 34 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 2: is for getting the yips at the World Cup. Beckham 35 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: is a favorite. Everyone loves him. There he is the 36 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 2: night before this momentous match against Argentina, his wife not 37 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 2: his wife at that point, his girlfriend dropped a bombshell. 38 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 4: I told David the night before the game, the game, the. 39 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 1: Game before the Argentina game, she phoned me and said, 40 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: I've just taken a test and I'm pregnant. So I 41 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: found out then. 42 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,400 Speaker 4: He was so so happy, we both were, and there 43 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 4: was never any doubt in my mind that I shouldn't 44 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 4: tell him. I mean, it was what we wanted and 45 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,959 Speaker 4: he could not have been happier. 46 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 2: So you tell him right before the biggest game of 47 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 2: his way? 48 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, were you excited? 49 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,480 Speaker 2: Did you think it would help him for the game? 50 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 4: I profit, I don't really know. 51 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 2: This is the thing she's kind of naive about. She 52 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 2: loved she didn't, she says, quite honestly, I don't necessarily 53 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:17,800 Speaker 2: love football. I don't get it, but I love watching 54 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 2: him play. She doesn't understand the powers at play, and 55 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,399 Speaker 2: they saw the repercussions of that, because then he goes 56 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,120 Speaker 2: on to that game and he has a moment where 57 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 2: he's jumbled up, he's not playing, well, what's the player's named, 58 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 2: Diego Samioni. He's interviewed in this too. He gets up 59 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 2: in his grill a little bit because he knows he's 60 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 2: rattled and David's on the ground and he lashes out 61 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 2: and trips him over and David, just a few minutes 62 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 2: really into the game, is red carded and sent off 63 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 2: and England goes crazy. He is public enemy number one. 64 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 2: He's twenty three years old and for the following year 65 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 2: he is booed. People have effigies of him. There's a 66 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,840 Speaker 2: photo him on the newspaper, people having effigies of him 67 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: with Beckham on the back of the switch of the shirt. 68 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 2: He's has death threats, He's been constantly harassed. His life 69 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,440 Speaker 2: is a nightmare. People just booing him wherever he goes. 70 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 2: He is public enemy number one. The Prime Minister's asked 71 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 2: about him. Everybody is he has let the country down. 72 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 2: And this is a twenty three year old and even 73 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:19,880 Speaker 2: the other players being interviewed now in the modern world 74 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 2: are saying there was no mental health help. We didn't 75 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,039 Speaker 2: understand any of that. And all he could do was 76 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:31,239 Speaker 2: fight back with his feet, meaning by kicking the ball 77 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 2: and just being a good player. But it took him 78 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 2: about a year to turn it around. And it's quite 79 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:39,159 Speaker 2: extraordinary to watch. And this is me watching. I don't 80 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:42,600 Speaker 2: know the history of these crying and I'm cheering at 81 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 2: his redemptions. 82 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,559 Speaker 3: What would you do so your post spice, you find 83 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 3: out you're pregnant, would you tell him? 84 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 2: I'd wait probably till after the match or after the tournament, 85 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,679 Speaker 2: after the World Cup she as She says, I didn't 86 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,360 Speaker 2: quite get it, and they lived with the consequences of that. 87 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,560 Speaker 2: Had a baby loved him, you see, that's their son, Brooklyn. 88 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,599 Speaker 2: But the booing, the horror. The whole team went on 89 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 2: to lose that game, but he was the one because 90 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:11,120 Speaker 2: he was red carded off that lapsed in concentration and 91 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 2: they didn't forgive him. 92 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 3: Because it's a distraction. It's a distract. 93 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 2: Would you like to know or not to know? 94 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 3: My wife hasn't told me, and I've got a thirty 95 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 3: one year old, but it is. There's a great feeling 96 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 3: when you have a child, and she wanted to share it, 97 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:30,719 Speaker 3: but no, you got to Yeah. 98 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 2: She didn't get it. She had her own career, which 99 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: I don't think she took as seriously as he had 100 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,480 Speaker 2: to take here exactly. It's a fascinating docco. 101 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 3: I'm going to watch that. It's on Netflix.