But with so much in it, it’s important to have somebody point out some key, potentially missable details. I am that person. Let us go then.There’s been a monumental amount of buzz around this series and here, right out of the traps in episode one, we meet David Beckham’s bees.
In previous years, he has shared photographs of him and his children all checking for honey together. David is the only one with a personalised suit. When your progeny are becoming brands themselves, this is the kind of thing you need to do to stay on top. Any queen bee could tell you that.As has been the case in any media appearance containing the pair of them for the past quarter of a century, Victoria is the real charisma in the Beckham show.
“When you’re sitting uncomfortably as 75,000 rabid football fans are insisting you enjoy anal sex, only a Polo will do,” the soothing pay-off, read by someone nice like Alexander Armstrong, could go. Then, of course: “Polo: the mint with the hole.”Try and keep up, I dare you. One of the most impressive things about Beckham is not just the sheer range and number of talking heads included, but the sheer range and number of places those talking heads talk from.
I feel certain that, had the documentary carried on for another four hours, we’d have seen Neville talking about what it was like to play in front of the Kop while riding Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park; then Neville discussing David’s Qatar work in the metaverse; then Neville analysing Brooklyn’s wedding while smoking a cigar on the bridge of the Ever Given container ship; then Neville wondering aloud who will take over from the Glazer family as he has a fish pedicure on the Khaosan Road in...
Did she find a portrait of herself on Antiques Roadshow and sell her soul to keep it in the attic? There’s a question for the audience in Sale tonight.If not, why was the off-duty uniform of Real Madrid’s first team – baggy, short-sleeved button-up blue shirts and dark trousers – so close to that of Royal Mail workers? Who wore it first? Nowhere is this addressed, which seems an oversight.
By the time he was confident enough to give a statement to reporters in the local language in 2005, he received a spontaneous round of applause from those present. But as various footage shows, he was far more comfortable speaking in his second language than anybody gave him credit for. He now uses it daily to chat with Lionel Messi.It leads us to wonder what other skills he has been hiding.